My Picks for QR Code Generation Software

So here are my picks for QR Code Generators:

Online business cards: 

I pick ScanMe.com for ease of use, security against data loss (contacts are saved on smartphones and online), and multiple mobile app platforms. Go here for instructions on registering your online business/calling card and downloading the mobile app to your device. Previously you had to have a Facebook account to register (login) at ScanMe and create your QR code. Now ScanMe also allows use of LinkedIn and Twitter accounts to register. Simply tap the contact buttons on the "contact" screen of the person's QR code you've scanned to connect with them. On the down side, everyone you want to connect with must have an online ScanMe account (and hopefully a smartphone with the ScanMe mobile app) to make it really useful. 

Scan.Me is an alternative that

Social Media Lab at Midwest Writers Workshop 2012

Facilitators at writers workshops may suggest that writers need to develop a social media platform to aid in marketing their books, and even offer some ideas as to how to do this, but how many offer hands-on training with a consultant (or tutor) in a computer lab?

This year Midwest Writers Workshop (MWW12 held in Muncie, Indiana July 26-28, 2012) offered attendees FREE social media tutoring at a computer lab loaned by Ball State University's English Department. Creative Writing Professor Cathy Day and four Creative Writing students (Ashley Cassandra Ford, Tyler Fields, Spencer McNelly, and Maye Ralston) operated and staffed the social media lab. Ball State IT employees installed and kept the computers operating well throughout the conference.

The Social Media Lab was kick-started Thursday evening, July 26, with a social media panel moderated by Day, and presented by the social media tutors (Ford, Fields, McNelly, and Ralston) and social media guru Jane Friedman.

Photo by Deborah Lucas

During the panel

Maye's QR Code Presentation for Midwest Writers Workshop 2012 (#MWW12)

This is a QR Code for This Blog

As promised during my presentation at Midwest Writers Workshop 2012 (#MWW12), below is a link to my QR Code Presentation slides. For those who weren't at MWW12, these slides are from a five-minute introductory presentation I gave as part of the Social Media Panel with Jane Friedman, Cathy Day, Tyler Fields, Ashley Ford, and Spencer McNelly on July 26th, 2012:

Maye's QR Code Presentation for Midwest Writers Workshop 2012.

In addition, at the bottom right of this blog's home page you will find a copy of a QR code for this blog and a QR code generator which you can use to create your own blog or website QR code. Simply click on Qurify your own QR Code here! », type the URL you want to point to (or the message you want to appear) into the box, click the "Qurify" button, and viola! Now copy and save your new QR code to your hard drive (or take a photo of it with your camera phone). Paste it on your blog, in your emails (as part of your signature)...print it and tape it to your office door, etc. 





You may also find the following of interest:
Entering the Digital Era: QR Codes for, Well, Everything
My Picks for QR Code Generation Software
Social Media Lab at Midwest Writers Workshop 2012
eSolutions for Social Media Addictions
Where to Timeline and Storyboard: eSolutions
An eSolution for Character Creation: Character Writer
Tools for Writers: The Benefits of Writing With Scrivener
My Pick for Screenwriting Software: Celtx
For a Better Quality Break Time: Creativity Enhancing Goodies

Entering the Digital Era: QR Codes for, Well, Everything

I was born for the digital era. I LOVE technology gadgets. I know you can't tell that by the number of posts on here about software programs and applications, but really I do. So when I started seeing square blobs of digital designs showing up, well, everywhere, I got curious. Seeing one on a piece of paper hung like a flyer on a bulletin board was the last straw. It was like some secret club sign that I hadn't been let in on. I had to know what it was and what it meant.

Scan this to connect with me on Twitter

When I found out,

Guest Blog: Journaling and Healing - Springboard to Bigger Things

Some have used journaling as a springboard to publishing, and even to entrepreneurial endeavors. Today’s Guest Blog Post writer is one such person. Tina Games, certified creativity and life purpose coach, and author of Journaling by the Moonlight: A Mother’s Path to Self-Discovery.

Here Tina explains how her journaling process led to healing, and from there to bigger things:

Morphing Character Portraits in Art, Literature, and Film: Lessons in Power and Responsibility

Speed painter Brad Blaze, AKA "wittypainter" at YouTube, demonstrates the result of combining creativity with canvas and house paint. He paints one portrait then transforms it into another, within a very short amount of time. But you really have to see it:

Guest Blog: The Importance of Journaling

Many writers keep journals or diaries. Some use it as a space within which to jot ideas, notes, and observations. Some use it to record day-to-day or traveling experiences. Some use journaling to explore personal emotional and psychological growth, and to promote healing. There are as many ways to awaken creativity with journaling, as there are people who journal.


Most people keep their journals private. Some publish their journals. Journal writers who become famous (politicians and a few writers, for example), may have their journals published after their deaths, whether they desired it or not. (A good reason to make sure no one knows where you hide yours.) 


Writing in a private journal can give one a place to explore ideas, thoughts, and feelings without the need or worry of self-censoring - an exploration that can be a writer's best friend.


My guest blogger for this week shares his thoughts and feelings about his experience with journal writing:

For a Better Quality Break Time: Creativity Enhancing Goodies

Here are a few goodies that claim to enhance creativity, concentration, focus, relaxation, peace.... I won't swear they do but they sure make for a nice quality break from writing, painting, sculpting, or working in general. And who doesn't need an occasional break?