May 15

French Vanilla is My I.D. #whatsyourid

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Yep, readers who know me know that I am a big time coffee drinker and I am no stranger to drinking 6-8 cups of coffee per day that ranges from nearly every blend you can find in K-cups.  I also like drinking breakfast and strong blends with the occasional dairy free creamer and my favorite by far is International Delight French Vanilla non-dairy creamers. image So obviously, I took part in the Hey America, What’s your ID campaign which is a fun little game you can enter to win prizes as well as get a pin to represent your flavor ID from International Delights. JG International Delights

Have you tried International Delight creamers?

I drink French Vanilla coffee, where the grinds are themselves artificially flavored but it really doesn’t taste as good when you want a hot cup of French Vanilla coffee.  I like a light breakfast blend with 1 cup of International Delight French Vanilla and it really helps smooth over the bitterness of coffee some mornings, it makes it feel like a treat and it pairs so well if you are having oatmeal or even a coffee cake that you dip in the coffee for a breakfast snack. Perhaps it’s the sweetness, but I used to enjoy Hazelnut though never as much as French Vanilla.  I really like that many of the International Delight creamers are dairy free as I am lactose intolerant so this is a big bonus to me as well, I get my creamer flavor without the side effects of using dairy. I hadn’t tried the salted caramel mocha flavor yet, though and watch the video above as I open and try the Salted Caramel Mocha International Delights flavor for the first time and share my thoughts on the flavor!

What’s Your ID

So I am helping raise awareness for the What’s Your ID Campaign and this means you can enter to win prizes! These prizes include a $500 gift card, International Delights creamers for a year and more! Follow International Delight on Twitter @InDelight or Facebook and share your Flavor ID after joining the What’s Your ID campaign.

What’s Your ID? International Delight is looking for their most passionate flavor fans. Put your ID on the map to enter to win a Magical Trip, play games and discover more unexpected delight. Share your ID flavor at http://whatsyourid.com. 

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of International Delight. The opinions and text are all mine.

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May 14

Learning from the Giveaways

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In an effort to help give items away to readers I myself was caught in a few situations where the winners were either not contacted by the advertiser in a timely fashion, or the advertiser simply took too long or had poor response times. This will change my future method of doing sweepstakes, most of the giveaways I front the prize, buy it and ship it to the winner. But the ones where the advertiser sends prize directly to winner, I am going to have to come up with ways to get coupons ahead of time or more concrete ways of ensuring the winner gets contacted and their prize in a timely fashion.

This was one thing I liked about Sponsored Giveaways which is the platform that is running the Lenovo Z585 laptop giveaway on DragonBlogger right now, this system the award is uploaded ahead of time into the system and automatically given to the winner, there is no waiting for an advertiser to respond. This does mean however that the system only works to deliver cash or coupons to the winners, as they can’t do physical prizes. So the winner of the Lenovo Z585 Laptop actually gets a $570 Amazon Gift Certificate which is the cost of the laptop. Technically they could do whatever they want and buy whatever they want with the gift certificate, which would defeat the purpose of a laptop giveaway if they bought other items with it.

Meanwhile, I am glad that one of my advertisers did finally respond to the winners, I think that requiring advertisers to cc me in the notification to the winners is a requirement going forward so I an prove the advertiser contacted them in a timely fashion.

My latest giveaway from Web Hosting Buzz which went live yesterday on DragonBlogger the advertiser gave us coupon codes that the winners can use and get the package/prize right away so that will be a good thing for the winners.

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May 13

Near Computer Free Weekend

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As my youngest son has been without a laptop since the hard drive failure for the past week, I have been gracious enough to let him use my computer this past weekend which means I was basically computer and gaming free as he consumed hours of Minecraft on my rig.

Hopefully his new laptop will arrive midweek so I can have my computer back on weekends, but I did wind up getting some of my to-do list of items done early and was more productive at house chores without my computer being accessible.

Meanwhile, downloaded some new games for the iPad which my iPad 2 is starting to show it’s age in lagging out when playing some of the newer HD games. It is only a matter of time before I may need to upgrade to a newer tablet like the Google Nexus 10, not the one that came out last year the new one that will be announced this week.

Mother’s Day was fun, we went to a Boston Terrier meeting and let the dogs run wild while we ate at a pet friendly restaurant called Joe’s Farm Grill that has outdoor seating and enough of it so you can bring pets and put them on leashes while you it. I wish there were more pet friendly restaurants here in AZ actually.

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May 06

Blog This in Live Writer

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Sure there are browser extensions and add-ons that let you take screen captures or snippets of articles/posts so that you can publish them on your blog but one of the easiest and most simple to use if you blog with Live Writer is the default IE functionality where you can select a portion of a website and just click "Blog this in Live Writer".

You can find this by selecting what you want to copy, clicking Tools and then Blog this in Windows Live Writer

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Now what you wanted to copy will show up with all links intact and even better credit to the source article is given at the end of the copied text so proper attribution is given.  This is a great way to build an article around information from a source article where you can share your own opinions, views and yet include some of the material from the source article to give your readers reference.  This is great for grabbing phrases, quotes or small portions that you want to call out and address.

If you use Live Writer this could be a good reason to at least use Internet as your browser some of the time, because Blog This in Live Writer is one of the best built in tools for Internet Explorer when you have Windows Live Essentials installed with Writer.

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