Social Media, Alaska, Hunting Outfitters and Horseback Adventures
Alaska Chick’s Blog has past the “newbie” year with 131 posts as of today (before this one! LOL). Hoary! Hoora!! Moving on....
Yet...
I find that I cannot. (and no! It's not because I keep moving my office around!)
We have been working on and around, as best we can, our Star Band, connection and bandwidth dramas these last months and it finally came to a head.
I had NOTHING. What? Not possible. Not even maybe. Now, I don’t claim the gift of patience. Some may even say (and they do- I have heard them) I have a decided lack of tolerance and no threshold at all for fools.
Make. It. Work.
That is all I had to say to add to the conversation. They did. A real live human with experience and expertise came on the line, to speak with Nancy, this time when she called. Not only did Ken know what he was talking about, he was the DUDE. The BOSS.
Four and a half hours later, we had internet again, and one PC in pre-op! Two days later, the PC has undergone disease eradication and the second PC was being diagnosed.
The new templet has been put into the website and I plan to check out 99Designs.com for a new logo since every single one of my “leads” dropped me like a dead frog. Ameena Facet’s BIV (Brand Identity Visualization) for Alaska Chick’s Blog has me pumped and ready to go!
But.
Like I said, I have been doing a lot of thinking about this blog and what I have learned in the last year. About what it all means, the website and my role in it, Alaska Chick’s Blog and the goals and purpose for it. What it means to Pioneer Outfitters and what it means to me.
Discovering that so many of the friends, teachers,mentors and blog authors I have substantial time with during the last year, are “my” (Alaska Chick’s Blog) age or just 1-2 years older (Blogs), has given me a great deal to ponder.
The talk of “changing direction,” “re-evaluating” and “taking a short break from blogging” has had quite the unexpected effect on me.
Blogging. Wikipedia says “ A blog (a portmanteau of the term web log) is a personal journal published on the world wide web consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order so the most recent post appears first. Blogs are usually the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often are themed on a single subject. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog."
Blogging, for real. This means to me, posting regularly, for whatever it is you happen to be blogging about.
Ya know what?
Blogging is one big, helleva, lot of work. No joke. No exaggeration. No shit.
Guiding, horseback guiding, is one big, helleva, lot of work. No joke. No exaggeration. No shit.
The incredible amount of basic information to learn, to implement. To be put through your newbie “paces.” To see what you are really made of. (read- will you last?)
Catch on to all the jargon. Establish a “presence” and basically figure out what it really do have to offer, anyone. Perfect that “elevator pitch,” and get really used to 15-18 hour days endlessly writing.
Cool. Pats all around. Cake and coffee.
Now, we get to work. Now, I need to get really focused. Get stronger. Mark Harai has this phrase, and I couldn't get him to stop talking about monkeys long enough to check to be sure I got it right..so here's hoping! “Learn, Implement, Adjust, Repeat. "
Now. “The real work begins.” (Good grief, who said THAT?!)
I am, Alaska Chick.
“As you look, really look, and find no words; feeling both, your heart healing and filling to an inner bursting point and feeling that your soul has been laid open to the breeze and wind like a raw wound. This takes you beyond the physical, past the mental; this is the spiritual element. This is Chisana.”
My name is Amber-Lee Dibble and I am the Manager at Pioneer Outfitters. We are located in the Wrangell St. Elias National Park & Preserve, our nation’s largest, most unexplored, unexploited and untouched National Park.
I am Mom, the Manager and the lead Guide of the Extreme Pro Team Guides. Born a Capricorn 1, Week of the Ruler, on the Day of The Indomitable One.
Pioneer Outfitters has been taking people into the wilderness of Alaska on horseback for Spiritual, Pleasure, Gold Panning, Glacier Exploring and Historic Trail Pack Trips, as well as Big Game Hunting and Survival & Guide Training since 1924. We, our family and our horses have always lived here year-round. As we make our life, we make our “living.”
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