Explore
How much have I blogged since Learning 2.0? - not a lot of contribution to my own blogs but certainly a fair bit of contribution to others', including wikis, nings, etc
What do I like about blogging? - the immedicay, the colour & vibrancy, the reflection of myself
Have I found other blogs to read? - oh yeah, heaps. Some I follow, others I check in on every now and then. I have set up various rss feeds but I find I don't use that so often anymore, rather I hit on things on my way past and file them away for later
Do I comment on others' blogs? - yes and no. It really depends on the writer and the topic. Sometimes the best comment is silence.
Adventure
Okay, I found a 3rd party template to use. Tried one site but it wasn't easy, flicked through another, decided on Pyzam - love the images but found the manipulation of html a bit of a headache - I didn't want to lose all the widgets I had already created so I had to save my first template's html somewhere else and then work out where in the new lot of html to insert my widgets back in - and make it work. Took me a while but I got there in the end - thank goodness for the 'preview' button and 'clear edits'. I love the available images from Pyzam but had difficulty getting rid of unwanted text - in hindsight probably should not have done the editing in html at all as I'm hardly html savvy.
Still - does it look good to you??
I have to admit though that rejuvenating my blog has given me cause to continue to rejuvenate myself with the 2.1 experience.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Learning 2.1 - back in the hot seat.
Well, well, well. Here we are again. It's great to see a new edition of the Learning 2.0 program begin and I'm quite excited about exploring Learning 2.1 - should be fun. Thanks and congratulations to Mylee & Ellen for pushing forward with this and for continuing to expose and explore the 2.? world.
I've completed the survey and noted the few areas i'm still a 'new user' so I'll try to make the effort to give those areas a bit more of a go when possible. Looking forward to it.
My contribution today (staff meeting in 6 minutes) is a new look for my blog ...... okay, I'm not too sure how long the pink is going to last but it's the least I can do for pink ribbon day yesterday (aside from the cupcakes and yummies we ate).
I've completed the survey and noted the few areas i'm still a 'new user' so I'll try to make the effort to give those areas a bit more of a go when possible. Looking forward to it.
My contribution today (staff meeting in 6 minutes) is a new look for my blog ...... okay, I'm not too sure how long the pink is going to last but it's the least I can do for pink ribbon day yesterday (aside from the cupcakes and yummies we ate).
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
The time and place of social networking in our lives
Over the last few weeks, if not months, I've struggled with finding time to get all that needs to be done at work (and home too I guess) done. These last 2 weeks I've found time from somehwere and it's been great to have that sense of achievement - of being able to contribute where I'd like to be contributing. Though I do sense the fog closing in soon.
The oft' cried complaint is that we simply have no time for things - we're busy getting the job done, using loads of social networking tools and other technologies to enhance our work flows and processes and yet we find that there's still more to do each day. Yesterday I found myslef scrambling to accept that 5 o'clock had come round, I simply wasn't ready for it - still so much left to do and the day had gone (still trying to work out where it went - think it may have gone fishing with the rest of my family out on the river.....). In this current clime we're being asked to do more with less, and less. New technologies help us achieve these results but we still need the time to get used to how they operate, else we look foolish (or worse). By taking the time out to write this blog post I delay getting another task completed. By attending an all-day meeting tomorrow I delay getting even more stuff done, yet I need to go to the meeting in order to achieve other outcomes. Just as I need to keep contributing to my blog in order to restore my skills and abilities. The benefit is there, it'll just take a little while to filter through as a benefit.
Perhaps that's what we forget most when spending precious moments using social networking tools, contributing to blogs and wikis and nings and so on - there is a benefit to this activity, it isn't necessarily immediate and whilst it may take a little while for that benefit to filter through, the act of contributing and collaborating with others on the journey is certainly felt and appreciated.
I look back and see that it's over 12 months since I last wrote in this space and yet here I am - I have written in other spaces and explored other avenues but it's certainly rewarding to come back and look over my journey and know it's been a worthwhile one.
The oft' cried complaint is that we simply have no time for things - we're busy getting the job done, using loads of social networking tools and other technologies to enhance our work flows and processes and yet we find that there's still more to do each day. Yesterday I found myslef scrambling to accept that 5 o'clock had come round, I simply wasn't ready for it - still so much left to do and the day had gone (still trying to work out where it went - think it may have gone fishing with the rest of my family out on the river.....). In this current clime we're being asked to do more with less, and less. New technologies help us achieve these results but we still need the time to get used to how they operate, else we look foolish (or worse). By taking the time out to write this blog post I delay getting another task completed. By attending an all-day meeting tomorrow I delay getting even more stuff done, yet I need to go to the meeting in order to achieve other outcomes. Just as I need to keep contributing to my blog in order to restore my skills and abilities. The benefit is there, it'll just take a little while to filter through as a benefit.
Perhaps that's what we forget most when spending precious moments using social networking tools, contributing to blogs and wikis and nings and so on - there is a benefit to this activity, it isn't necessarily immediate and whilst it may take a little while for that benefit to filter through, the act of contributing and collaborating with others on the journey is certainly felt and appreciated.
I look back and see that it's over 12 months since I last wrote in this space and yet here I am - I have written in other spaces and explored other avenues but it's certainly rewarding to come back and look over my journey and know it's been a worthwhile one.
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