I’ve spent the past few hours tinkering with my blog. Last week, when this site was still just a storyboard in my head, my buddy and fellow Poynter College Fellow Emily Ingram gave me this metaphor, which I love:
Your site becomes your sandbox. You go play there when you want to avoid work
Searching and test driving different plugins is an easy way to breeze through two hours. So is trying to figure out how to add my tagline underneath my name in my header 
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Regardless of how badly I want “Paint by Words” to show up under “Laura Keeley” right NOW, I do feel a sense of accomplishment for adding two Facebook plugins with relative ease.
The easiest to spot is the Like button right at the end of this post. As the link shows, the code is available directly from Facebook. I went the plugin route and used the one aptly titled Facebook Like. It’s hard to believe that the Facebook Like button has only proliferated the entire Internet since this April. There are still bugs with the button—”likejacking” worms are abundant on my newsfeed—but for myself and other bloggers, this tool is golden.
Now if a Facebook user stumbles upon my blog and likes it enough to click the button, his or her entire Facebook network will know. This has the potential to be viewed by hundreds or thousands of people, depending on the number of friends said liker has. Then one of these friends might click on the link and spread it to their friends and so on.
Boom! Instant viral success.
