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I don’t know if anyone out there is interested, but I’m looking to sell my kaleidoscope mandalas to other shopkeepers. I’d be selling you the right to use the images with a credit back to me. I’d still own the designs, but you’d have the right to use them on Zazzle products in your own shop.

I much prefer making art over working on a shop, so if you have a shop and you need more art to fill it with, this might be perfect. Contact me via email or on FaceBook if you think you might be interested. I already have hundreds of kaleidoscopes done, and I will happily make hundreds more if someone’s buying. As for pricing and such, I’ll work that out with the shopkeeper once someone shows interest.

I’m curious to know how many social networks you all belong to. I have at least 16 including:  Facebook Pages, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Delicious, DandyID, Twine, Stumble, Friendfeed, RedGage, BlogCatalog, Yahoo!, Google, Kaboodle, weRead, Blinklist.

I’m wondering how many networks you use, what you use, and how useful you find them to be for both business and personal use. What networks do you find are best for meeting new people and making friends? Which ones are best for promoting your business? Are there any you use just for fun, with no other real purpose?

I find some of the things I’m using to be better than others. Some I hardly ever use. I like sites that I can connect to other services I use, such as being able to add my Twitter feed to my Facebook. I’m still upset that MySpace won’t make themselves compatible with outside services. I’d love to use my Twitter to update my MySpace status, but they won’t allow it. I can’t import an RSS feed into the blog the way I can on FaceBook either. I tend to aim for services that can be tied into one another, so I can have my entire network of friends and associates updated all the time.

Post comments and let me know what you’re using. I’d like to meet new people, but I’m also very interested in services that will allow me to promote my work. Oh, and I’m also only working in free services.

When I first started my Twitter account, I did it because I’d read it was a good way to promote a website. I don’t know that it did a lot of good in the beginning, but I made one anyway, in the hopes that it would.

Over time my Tweets have changed. In the beginning I was manually Tweeting updates to my sites, and links to my social networking profiles. After a while, I figured I needed more content to keep people interested, so I made random Tweets about whatever I was doing or thinking.

Later on, I started automating things a bit. I got TwitterBar for FireFox so I didn’t have to log in to Twitter to make posts. Then I converted my websites into blogs, and added TweetThis to send updates on my posts to Twitter. Then I integrated Twitter with FaceBook, so my statuses there would be updated by Twitter. Most recently, I got a widget to post my Tweets into my personal blog.

During all this, I had very few followers on Twitter. I didn’t know what I was doing wrong. I tried asking people to follow me, but I felt like that was cheating. I started writing articles for eHow about 5 months ago, and I set my account to Tweet every time I wrote a new article. My followers started growing! Now I get followers on a regular basis.

So, what is the key to getting followers? It seems to be having content that viewers really want to see. People didn’t seem too interested in my daily habits, but they WERE interested in the articles I was writing. My Twitter popularity has been growing quite a bit recently. I’m #21 in Macon, GA last time I checked. Pretty low in the overall scheme of Twitterers, with only 84 followers, but that’s more than I ever thought I’d have.

So the moral of this story, ladies an’ gents, is that if you want Twitter followers, you need to have something to say that is going to hold people’s interest. Feed something into your Twitter that will give people a reason to come back and pay attention to what you’re doing!