I have a friend who dreams of her next oil painting. Me, I dream of solutions.
One morning there was an entire blogging/website structure filtering through my thoughts as I drifted out of dream-sleep. Aha!
After I had coffee before I could forget my dream, I created an easy to use yet complex system. My count is four domains, four blogging platforms, one website, one photography sharing site, four Google Apps accounts and two YouTube channels.
Yes, it sounds like a lot. But it works and is simple to use. I have these personas inside of me, and we all wanted our own space to arrange. At times, I am my own social network.
- janissima (breathing space).
- janissima photography (photography portfolio)
- Pink Highways (wandering thoughts)
- The Computer Angel (helpdesk@home)
- Janice La Mere Hackney (ePortfolio)
Posterous is already my favorite blogging platform because it has so many great features. Its where I post first. Posterous autoposts everywhere, a tool to extend my reach. Each of my three blogs are linked to their counterparts on WordPress and Blogger. They all have same content, hopefully reaching different audiences, but posted just once.
All of my selves can be started on any of my sites, they all lead to home on a navigation bar or sidebar list. All threads are connected, a trivium. (I Googled this, it’s a place where three roads meet).
I am an army of one, always thinking, always writing, always framing.
A co-worker once told me I am only limited by my own imagination. Someone should let him know that my imagination be more than he expected.
Technology is easier to work with when you are working with one company. Solving problems across multiple systems is more difficult.
WordPress, Go Daddy, Posterous, SmugMug, I understand how they work now. There is still a puzzle-in-progress, but the hardest part is done.
I can teach you how to do this, or create a structure for you. Let’s talk.
If you need me, just whistle. You know how to whistle, don’t you Steve? Just put your lips together and blow. ~Lauren Bacall
When you where young and your mother told you had to share that glass of seven-up, I bet you didn’t think that you would be taking that experience all the way through your life.
I am learning sharing all over the place. I got a new task yesterday. I am now on my way to immerse myself into Microsoft’s SharePoint server, learning how to setup sites and sharing, how this can best be used, and then training the departments who will be in the pilot test.
That Information Management degree really is coming in handy. I was given a new puzzle to solve, one that has to be put together correctly or it will cause major frustration for those using my system. I am excited be able to set them up with an intelligent structure, rather than leaving them to the best-intentioned but strangely thinking engineer.
Fortunately, this is a new puzzle, not one where I need to break the system to fix it; I get to create it. How many times have I said, “I don’t know why “they” did it that way, “they” didn’t ask me?!
Here’s my chance, and I have to say It’s About Time!
