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With all the talk of Social wossname and user interaction and the like, I thought I would find other ways of you sheddies getting involved with readersheds/shedblog and of course Shed week, currently you can just Contact me using the standard form and I will try and answer your email, or post on the Forum or even follow me on twitter, no that’s posh.

But I saw this post on a great blog called makeuseof, It promotes a new tool that allows you to create a suggestion box on your blog, that allows quick feedback from your users.

Skribit

is a user-generated content suggestion application for blogs. Effortlessly assemble what your readers really want to hear.

anyway the widget is in the righthand side of the blog, and below, so give it a go, click on the Question and post a comment..

so be gentle and tell me what you want! maybe you want to promote your shed or your event during shed week or even just say hi.

I will try and catch up with it every night

Shed tags: shedblog > sheddies by Wilco
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I have been blogged tagged by Alex over at shedworking, rules at the bottom.

anyway here are my random things about me

• I trained as a chef many years ago- but still enjoy cooking for fun
• I drink my coffee black and tea white (2 sugars in both if no-one is watching)
• I have not been to the hairdressers for over 13 years
• I only passed my driving test in Dec 2007 - not a fan of driving but had to and it was first attempt.
• I am really bad at DIY when told what needs to be done, but when left alone I try hard and sometimes don’t fail.
• My favourite film is the Quiet Man starring John Wayne - thanks to brainwashing from the O’Connor’s while I was a child

and here are the blogs that I am tagging, hopefully they will carry on the tag

Richard over at http://www.realoasis.net/

Mike over at http://peplers.blogspot.com/

Simon over at the Plot Thickens

Cath over at Cathjanes.co.uk

Chris over at logblog.co.uk

AJ over http://aplaceinsardinia.blogspot.com/

Rules
* Link to the person who tagged you.
* Post the rules on your blog.
* Write six random things about yourself.
* Tag six people at the end of your post linking to their blog.
* Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
* Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

Shed tags: shedblog > tag by Wilco
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Well sort of. Looks like we had a few technical issues while I was away and Alex could not do his guest posts.

not to worry I will try and post the Shed of the Week later, as I have a lot of other things to catch up with.

Shed tags: shedblog by Wilco
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I’m off on holiday from the shed for a week..

Alex from shedworking.co.uk will be posting the odd thing here, if he has time and he thinks it’s related to what you shedblog readers want, so look out for proper use of grammer and spelling…

Also if you have shared your shed then it won’t be live until when I get back… so take more photos and we can look at it then.

also when I get back I hope to get the run up to Shed Week really started!

so will see you soon

thanks wilco

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The world is full of famous slogans.

“Hello Moto” “Just do it” “Hello boys” “Because you’re worth it” “Nowt taken out” “They drink it in the Congo” “A Double Diamond works wonders” “Guinness is good for you” “Reassuringly expensive.” “Smooth Like No Other.” etc etc etc

and of course the now wossname “We/I Love Sheds” as seen on tshirts around the land.

but talking in the pub the other week with AJ and DR, we got thinking about slogans for possible readersheds and Shed Week merchandise, ie tshirts and the like.

Two that where flung my way were

“My Erection Is Perfection”

and

“Good with wood”

of course I will not stand for that sort of smut, but if you sheddies can come up with any smartarse slogans you would be proud to wear on a tshirt that is related to your shed, then please post it in the comments box.

Shed tags: shedblog by Wilco
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You may notice there will be little bits of interesting (I think) info/posts in the righthand side of shedblog.co.uk under the title of Bits, in fact this is a wordpress plugin called Sideblog and it’s great for adding quick posts about stuff that may not full posts but just asides to the main nonsense.

basically they will be short posts about shed related (or not) stuff that I find out and about on the interweb.

There will still be a full post for them, but they wont be in the RSS feed..

you will be able to see that from the links or even go to the TAG page.

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Well BBC WM are looking for you, to chat about your personal space, so if you are a sheddie in your early 50s and a women (so 1 out of 3 for me, does not count) then they would love to hear from you..!

Hello, I’m Bernadette Shortt, I work on lifestyle features for a mid morning programme on BBC WM, the local radio station for Birmingham and the Black Country.

In the office we have been discussing where people go if they need personal space? My immediate thought was sheds!

I’m looking for people in their early 50s, ideally women, from the West Midlands who can talk us through why they need this little retreat? I don’t have a particular date in mind but we broadcast Monday to Fridays between 10am and 1pm. If anyone is interested then please call me on 0121 567 6029.

good luck

Shed tags: BBC > shedblog by Wilco
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I had some two great cards with a shed angle, this Christmas.

The first one is humorous card called “The Interesting World of Sheds” by Ian gibson, which was from Mrs Uncle wilco’s friend, I like the shed “with aspirations”.

The other one was from Shed of the Year 2007 winner, Tony. a great Watercolor study by Martin Sexton, called “Grandad’s potting shed”, thanks Tony made my Xmas!.

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The world/web famous Weblog Awards are nearly with us for 2008 and the Nominations are now open…

So go along to this page and nominate this here shed based blog shedblog.co.uk and of course www.shedworking.co.uk plus one other shedblog you like… as you need to add 3 blogs to a category, of course spend a few hours adding other sites to the other categories. I would say Best Topical Weblog is the best bet!

It would be great wossname for Shed of the Year and Shed week, of course there are better written blogs out there but We Love sheds, so thats got to be worth a vote in itself!.

Here are the rules…

What You Need to Know

* A “weblog” is defined as a page with dated entries.
* The contest is open to any weblogs that existed for a period of time during the year 2007, so weblogs that were discontinued during 2007 are also eligible.
* Only one nomination form and one finalist voting form may be submitted per person.
* E-mail addresses are required to vote. You must use your own address and confirm the validation e-mail.
* If you attempt to submit a second ballot, your first one will be replaced.
* In the nomination phase:
o URLs are required.
o The maximum number of weblogs you may nominate for a category is three (3) for most categories and four (4) for Weblog of the Year.
o At least three (3) different weblogs total must be nominated.
o There is no limit to the number of categories a weblog may be nominated for.
o Nominees have to fit the category they are placed in.
* Weblogs may win a category over multiple years a maximum of three times.

found via DBT

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Well its obvious I am looking forward to Shed Week 08.

But what are you looking forward to sheddie?

Please vote on the right hand side or below!

[poll=7]

Shed tags: Shed News > shedblog by Wilco
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