Blogger is our preferred venue for a number of reasons. First, you can read our posts in three different ways: by signing up for our email list, by subscribing to our blog feed, or by visiting the actual blog itself. Most of you, will actually be reading this in an email or via a feed rather than on the actual blog website. One huge advantage of blogger, is that we don't have to limit our posts to 140 characters or silly things like that. We can explain, show and discuss our posts thoroughly. We can also post something in 140 characters or less if we choose to. If you read our blog, you will know about all updates and get (hopefully) interesting news and other posts. Reading our blog does not require you to register, have an account or otherwise give out any personal information if you visit the online version at:
We have a small crowd of Twitter users who follow us, so we usually tweet something when there is a new blog post or a new math worksheet. Once in a while we also tweet or retweet things on Twitter exclusively if we found the item there and thought it might be interesting to our followers. One disadvantage of Twitter is that our tweets can easily get lost in the steady flow of tweets. There is no need to register to see our tweets, just head over to this link:
Google+ seemed like it was going to catch on quite nicely since there are so many Google users out there, but we haven't seen the crowds other places have. We are still sticking it out though and posting the occasional Google+ exclusive and always posting links to new blog posts. You don't need to register to see our Google+ page, but you will to interact or put us in your circles. Join us at Google+ at the following link:
And finally, we have arrived at Facebook, sadly at the bottom of our list. Facebook used to be our #1 sharing place, but they have unfortunately done a few things to make it very difficult to continue supporting them. Their very questionable privacy issues aside, they are now asking for real money, and a lot of it, to "promote" posts. If you don't pay to promote your post, they only show the post to around 15 to 20 percent of people who have liked the page. As an example, we have 2270 likes as of this blog post, and only 308 people saw our last Facebook post. If we had paid them some money, more people would have seen it. We have chosen not to pay them a cent. Despite their new way of operating, we still post things to Facebook... the occasional Facebook exclusive post and always a link to new blog posts. The good news is that we have made our posts public, so you don't have to log in to see them if you visit our page directly at:Your Privacy
Some of you may be aware of the EU Cookie Law which we think is a wonderful thing especially for people who don't know a great deal about their online privacy. We were inspired by the new law to further protect the privacy of our users, even though our home is in Canada and most of our users are in the United States. We updated our privacy policy to include more information about cookies and changed a few other things, so you would be subjected to even less tracking than ever. For example, our Share/Save link that you can find on all of our pages is a simple image and a simple link. No cookies, no tracking, no privacy issues at all. When you click on the share/save button, though, some information is needed in order to process the request, and this is done through the Lockerz Share service. If you are interested in more information about your privacy, please do read our privacy policy and/or perform a search, but be careful, all those search engines are watching you!
We actually appreciate websites that aren't full of advertisements, videos, pop-ups, fancy social sharing buttons, etc. since they are much easier to navigate through, they load faster and they aren't full of privacy issues. We try to provide you with the same things that we appreciate. We figure if it isn't necessary, why include it.
Whenever we make updates to the Math-Drills.com website, we like to test it out in the four main browsers (IE, FF, Chrome and Safari). We did notice that the most recent Safari browser (5.1.7 for Windows 7) made it really easy to change privacy and security settings. They even tell you about the cookies that are being stored and give you a one button method to remove or block cookies. If you are concerned about your privacy, we think that you might want to check out Safari while the other browsers catch up.
That's it for now. We hope you have discovered a little bit more about how you can stay up-to-date on Math-Drills.com, how we are working to protect your privacy and what you can do to further protect your privacy. Have a great week!
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