Showing posts with label Beliefnet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beliefnet. Show all posts

Thursday, August 18, 2011

The Darker Side of Daph

Have you ever noticed how automatic spell check or auto generated wording/phrasing options sometimes present you with an “unexpected” alternative?
As I've now mentioned a few times, I have been selected as a finalist in a national blogging contest for a website called Beliefnet. I knew a decision was imminent, but I wasn't sure quite how I’d find out who’d been selected.
I needn’t have worried.
In my email yesterday was one that said I had “new activity” on my Beliefnet profile. I checked my Beliefnet mailbox to find a one-word message. It merely said, “Congratulations!” I was pretty sure in that moment that I knew what I was being congratulated on/for, but I figured it was wise to double check.
The next Beliefnet FLOGGER
I assumed that the announcement would be right on Beliefnet’s home page as it is now, but I was a bit premature. Their web folks hadn’t yet put up the announcement. So I went searching….
I thought about how best to look and concluded that, at minimum, I needed to include the words “Beliefnet blogger.” Ultimately, I opted for the entire phrase “Be the next Beliefnet blogger.”
The search did return several possible links, but it also came back with another idea for what I might have been looking for …
Underneath the line that showed me how many results I had to choose from, in bright blue writing was written, “Did you mean be the belief net [sic] flogger?”
Now that’s a job I hadn't thought of.  I know though, that Beliefnet promotes itself as a “family friendly” website, so I don’t think they’d go for it.
I wonder if they'd reconsider though if I don't win the contest ....