My Tomversation cartoons are posted online early in the morning, they are scheduled. But as for social media, I usually do it myself by hand, at around 8 am, usually a bit before, but never the same time each day, but like I said, around 8 am eastern time.
So there I am on the computer or my iPhone posting to Facebook and Instagram and I’ll post to Substack and Twitter/X later in the day.
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I was thinking the other morning, that when I used to publish our village’s daily news, the first post was published at 8 am for a bit, I eventually changed it to 5 am since I realized many people were up that early and waiting for the 8 am post.
One guy told me, “Every morning I am sitting there at the computer waiting for you to hit ‘send’ so the first post of the day comes up.”
I told him, I was not sitting there, watch in hand, waiting for 8 am (like I do now), I told him it was timed ahead of time to post at that time.
I usually posted the stories throughout the day, I don’t know why, it might have made more sense to just post them all at once, like any news outlet would do. I think I may have done it so that people would be coming back all day and perhaps see my advertisers over and over again. I’m not sure, but maybe that was the reason.
I am asked almost daily if I miss publishing the daily news. I don’t. It was a full time, never ending job. A three minute story on the village council meeting might have had me sitting through six hours at the meeting for that story which took a few minutes to read. I was at every event every day of the week – village meetings, merchant meetings, parties, openings, closings, committee meetings, event meetings, parades, etc. Sounds fun, but I had no outside life.
I remember one time it was earlier in the day for an event, The Bed Race, a charity event, coming up later that day, and I was walking the race track, which was a street in the center of the village, with a friend. She had to run to get to work at 10 am, which was down the block, and she said to me, “Tom, you are always in the middle of everything. It must be so much fun,” I was literally thinking, at that same time, mind you, “Is it 6 pm yet? I just want to go home.”
The grass is aways greener.
Till next time . . .
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