Socrates

I checked out your article on hubpages. Do you like hubpages better than squidoo? I'm thinking of publishing articles on a site like that, and was wondering what was the best one. If I decide to go with hubpages, I'll let you know so you can send me an invitation and get the bonus or whatever it is you get.

Your question is like asking me if I love my dad or my mum more :-D (and Gather is like the cool cousin who you hang out with to have lots of fun!).

I've written a couple of lenses on Squidoo... Why Squidoo? and I'm a Lensmaster! What Now? which will give a good outline of all things Squid.

In the other corner is How HubPages Works and How to Hub. The difference between the first and the second of each is the first is like getting a brochure of the car and finding out the features and benefits. The second in the series is getting behind the wheel and giving it a test drive.

I then do a comparison! Hubpages vs Squidoo.

All in all the ways of the Squid and the Hub are a little more complicated than Gather. But both have some very powerful features that go in a different direction than Gather.

I've even written some articles on the benefits of using Gather.

There's links in each of those articles that people can use to sign up and I get credit for it.

People are going to think I'm a shill so you can give links to your other articles! But they are great. Better than the official instructions.

I read your article about gather, and I really appreciate your idea about giving a short summary of an article with a link if someone's interested in learning more rather than a fraction of the article and then a link continuing the article on another site. That always seemed cheap to me. And blatant self-promotion.

You've given me a lot to think about. If I need help, can I contact you? I'm still very much an internet neophyte.

P.S. I still love my book cover. Too bad I haven't found a publisher yet.

I shall call him "The Shill". :-D LOL.

I get a lot of good feedback at both HubPages and Squidoo with people thanking me and asking questions. If they were fake accounts made by me I'd be too busy 'shilling' to have the time to continue writing all these "How To" articles :-)

Any questions you have, just contact me via my hubpages or squidoo. I tend to get a LOT of impersonal messages through Gather so I may accidentally overlook a legitimate one. I love questions from internet neophytes because it allows me to see problems (and solutions) from a different viewpoint.

Thank you. I'm sure you will be hearing from me. As complicated as gather is, it seems easy compared to those others.

Interesting.

Thanks for posting to Philosophy Lovers . . .

Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~