The GrayFly Group

Here I'm profiling our latest site, Zohive.com, a free temporary space for putting up your to-do lists, drafting bits of writing, and more. The to-do list allows you to cross off items when they're done. There is no sign up or log in. You simply type onto the page - it's very privacy oriented. Even we have no idea what you have put. This also means that when you close your browser window, whatever you typed goes away. Use it as you would Notepad or a similar tool - just be aware there is no way...

Currently, The GrayFly Group is active on these social media platforms: Pinterest: @grayflygroup Bluesky: @vera-grayfly Plurk: @grayflygroup Changes to our Pinterest usage We're still active, but less than before. We used to be active daily on Pinterest, pinning items of others as well as our own things. This turned out to be a waste of time because we'd see less and less engagement. The current strategy is simply to pin our items as they come out, which is every few days. I'd love to pin i...

Intellectual property ownership by individuals or businesses is important. There are already existing threats out there to intellectual property rights (for example, IP theft and patent trolls - just to name two of the most egregious examples). A newer threat to individuals and small businesses is the scraping of data without consent to train AI. If AI companies wish to use data to train their AI, they should either: a) use public domain data only - this does NOT mean data that is on the web ...

The GrayFly Group now has a fresh social media presence on Tumblr, in addition to our existing presence on Pinterest and Plurk. We explained previously why we stopped using Twitter. In related news, we have also installed Tumblr share buttons on GoodKidsClothes and FlipFall. This means that anyone with a Tumblr account can easily share any of our articles to their Tumblr blog, should they wish to do so. How is our Tumblr profile different from Plurk? The Tumblr posts are a bit more personal ...

The GrayFly Group has stopped using Twitter. Here's what we wrote in our last tweet (@grayflygroup on Dec 15th 2022): I'm active daily on Pinterest and Plurk as normal. Taking a hiatus from Twitter. I feel that the more sober management styles of the other platforms are a better fit for my brand The reason for halting our Twitter usage is as described above: the other platforms we use (Pinterest, Plurk) are simply a better fit for our brand. To explain this a bit more, consider the analogy...

If I had to sum up in one sentence what The GrayFly Group is about, I would say: "Offering helpful advice and how-to's" Although we have multiple sites in different niches, they all come down to advice, how-to's and other helpful items. Of course, some of the sites appeal to different audiences. For example, one site is about children's clothing while another is a gamertag generator. But across all the sites together, we believe there is something for everyone. Some examples of items which h...

Our current business logo Our business logo, as you can see, is a gray fly surrounded by the letter "G" in black. Originally our logo was just the fly, but that didn't look so pretty. But it still needed to be straightforward, so in 2021 I had the idea to surround the fly with the letter G. The big question was, which font? Since our biggest niche is lifestyle and family life blogs, the font needed to represent that well. I created a shortlist of 3 logos, where the only difference was the font...

Hello from the GrayFly Group! First of all, it's a group of blogs, not a group of people. I'll be covering some fun, behind-the-scenes things. First a little introduction. The GrayFly Group is the registered DBA (trade name) for GrayFly Stationery, LLC, a limited liability business registered in the state of Kentucky, USA. That's right - it started off as a stationery company but eventually expanded into website design and more. Fun fact: There is only 1 person managing all this. In subsequ...