Following Blog Sites

This is what the discussion will centre around this week. How to follow websites, manage followers and comments.

Following from this we will look at online communities and examples of how a posting generates activity. This includes writing blogs that are generators of advertising income. How do these planetary communities of interest behave?

Housekeeping

Following on from clearing piles of "stuff" from the office, I find that household tasks become a lot easier to engage. I seem to have snapped out of a period of relative household apathy. 

This possibly is the result of smoother cash flow, resulting from adding teaching at CIC to my professional activities. My goals feel more achievable. I think that blogging regularly aids my planning.

Spring Clean

Without sounding like a new convert to a cult, I have to say that "How to get things done" by David Allen has had a very positive effect on my office comfort. For the first time no crap piles of stuff hanging around. I haven't got beyond skimming the book yet! I implemented the preparation stage; why do I keep this object or paper, can I label and file it or not? I am astonished that it has taken until nearly 50 to grasp something so simple. 

Equipment Failure Revisited

My Wednesday evening Multimedia Platforms class, had to be reworked on the run this week as the data projector had failed again. I could have set up a mobile one available in the Multimedia Staff room. I decided it was better to get the whole class working on mind maps and embed the skill. So both of my MM Platforms classes have to present mind maps of their business and a site map of the website.

Gardening

We are growing more and more vegetables in our yard, beetroot, broccoli, shallots. Our Tower of Babel in the front will carry zuccini and mini pumpkin. Herbs and fruits, all sorts of things we are learning not to wither away. This is remarkable for both of us, particularly for me as I think my image of myself at 50 did not include 20 years ago, wearing a battered panama while pruning and shaping a climbing rose.

A rose is a rose

Reinvoicing

Having to generate an adjusted invoice is a real pain. It means that there has been a disagreement between my client and myself about something that I have or have not done.

What I usually have to do is recall the job, detail the specifics of work undertaken and consequences. Usually the consequences that don't find agreement and require some negotiation.

Luckily my partner is the best and fairest credit manager that you could ask for, she is a generally useful person to have around.

Situation Satisfactory

After the last week's cancellation, the Wednesday MM Platforms class covered a lot of ground. We dealt in detail with mind mapping, the interface design of Dreamweaver, then the business case for a website business. Everybody got the mind mapping concept a whole lot better than I expected. I look forward to see what they come up with for their individual business case.