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Future History

 In an effort to refocus my aims on this entire blog, I'm trying to consolidate a few things and pave a solid path forward.  I've labelled a few posts with the new tag "Future History."  These are the posts filled with my own thoughts and opinions.  History as a broad topic, as we know, is the collection of events that have happened, as well as the sociological aspects of the people and their opinions.  I fully realize that I lost steam on my aims of being academically sound, and got to a lot of editorializing...that's on me.  

With that, I'm deep in thought about rebranding:
-The logo I did up was supposed to be a tribute to the Holland Sentinel, and was made from a picture I'd taken of a tulip, then messed up in Photoshop.  I've got a few ideas in mind for a new logo that I can use for avatars on Twitter and Instagram.
-Developing a "mission statement" or "plan of action based on 3 key modules:  Branding, my ideal reader, and my niche."  We'll see where that goes.
-Some behind the scenes stuff - according to the Google Analytics, there's some fuckery going on with how content here shows up on Google Search Results.  And, there are issues with mobile usability, so I'll have to do something with that.
-A new focus on sequestering information.  I mentioned above the new "Future History" tag.  I've got an idea rolling around my head about having sections on Holland and Ottawa County history, greater West Michigan history (Ottawa, Allegan, Kent counties), Michigan history in general, and then maybe a region-wide Midwest History section.

We'll see what happens.  I've got a lot of stuff on my plate right now, so I'll see where the dust settles.

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