I wrote a post for the previous incarnation of my blog about believing Twitter would die. The pursuit of numbers was becoming increasingly obscene to me (a behavior I kept having to check in myself) and I was, and still am, convinced that it is about the quality and not quantity of your online relationships that matters. Then Naomi Dunford wrote this and I began to feel a bit embarrassed.

And now I’ve been even more reminded of the capacity of strangers to support you.  I do have a tiny little Twitter/FB family out there and they are amazingly generous people. I think it is because I am most drawn to individuals who are REAL ( I do get tired of hearing myself say “authentic” especially when Oprah says it so much). I worry I come across as an online stalker at times because, when I’m excited about someone, I will promote the hell out of them. I’ve done it with Pam Slim, Jeannette Maw (who is now a major client and no, I never saw that coming), Danielle LaPorte, Kelly Diels and now, my first couple of boys are about to get it.

I simply believe in the goodness and talent of these unbelievable folks.

Yesterday, after having struggled for 5 days with this broken, hacked blog and an insufficient backup and really poor tech support from Netfirms (no link on purpose), the Twitter love came oozing out of the woodwork. It looked a bit like this:

KellyDiels @kellylivesay and oh honey, I’m so sorry. @websiteweekend’s site has lots of tips on security. and eff eff eff eff eff. so sorry hon.

shawnmummert @kellylivesay If your site is well-indexed by Google, you may have cached versions of them online, if you don’t have other copies.

safetycomfort @kellylivesay Hope the recreation process goes really well, and that you’ll be back up and running very soon now. Hugs x

GrowMyAfro @kellylivesay ah, gotta love caching. Whew!

websiteweekend @kellylivesay How uptodate were your backups?

There were emails from Kelly Woodbridge and Eric Hamm too. And, in the end, I was able to salvage ALL of the content except for comments.

In the meantime, three nice men came and dug my car out of the snow (ok, it was for money but still) and today (after being dug out yesterday), my neighbor helped me again.

Lately love has come to me in unexpected ways and social media played a real part in this.

Please follow the above people if you don’t already. Please. They are good. Really good. And talented.

(This site isn’t fully reconstructed yet. I’m using Jing to take screen shots of each step so I won’t wonder what color my background was if it ever gets lost again. I’m learning more about security and Wordpress and database backups than I wanted to…but it is all ok…because of the love. )