If you’re a regular here, then you’ll know that Groundling loves software, apps, services, and devices that are well designed, and which optimise productivity and simplify communications. If you use a Word Press blog, then you are going to love a really clever plugin which I’ve just installed on a couple of my blogs today.
Continue reading ...Yes folks, if you live in the southern hemisphere, the days are getting longer, the birds are hard at it, and it’s time for spring cleaning. Perhaps your blog could do with a tidy out and a freshening up? Here are a few ideas to get you going. Are you running your blog platform’s latest
Continue reading ...A year ago I wrote about a few tools I was then using to make blogging simpler. I’ve updated the original post 3 Simple Elegant Tools because in that year I’ve added a few more clever apps to my digital toolbox and tossed others. It’s probably also not a bad idea to revisit and revise
Continue reading ...Image by Dramagirl via Flickr December 11th marked Spinning a Learning Web‘s second birthday. I’d used blogs before I created this one, but they were learning tools and marketing devices to publicise an event that I was working on … as such, they were time-limited and topic-focussed. What I found I wanted was something more
Continue reading ...This is a comment ‘upgraded’ to a post. The original was in response to an inquiry from a colleague in the US. She asked for some tips on using a class blog. My response got long, and by the end I thought it probably could do with a dust-off and a reshaping into a stand-alone
Continue reading ...It’s been a while between drinks here on Spinning … . I’ve been engaged in a blogging and life-activity sense elsewhere. Not that I haven’t been busy in the world of e-learning, but it’s been the Clayton’s blogging (blogging you do when not blogging) i.e., tweeting, instant messaging and so on which has been occupying me. The whole Twitter universe seems to have expanded incredibly in the past week; I am being followed by hordes of people suddenly (hmm … another spammy manifestation which makes me feel as though I am being ‘collected’ randomly). Quite a few of my colleagues are suddenly ‘getting’ the point of Twitter. Me, still not sure, though good for a quick notification, help me out here, late night roundups of activity sort of thing.
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Well it had to happen sometime. I was alerted yesterday morning on my Dashboard that someone had provided a bit of link love to one of my posts from September last year. The link cited a small vodcast I had produced. At this time I was working on the Blogger platform; since then I have gone across to Wordpress.org.
Now I thought all permalinks and post content were … well, permanent. Not so. When in a misguided sweep-up after a few months on the new platform I deleted the old blog … bang went the post’s internal links. The end result is that the link provided yesterday turns up the post, but the link from there to the media file is dead, kaput, out of service, Error 404 etc. How many more are there I wonder!
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It’s summer outside and lots of other people are out there enjoying the joys of the great outdoors … hitting the surf, strolling the countryside, and just hanging out as you do on these long, sunny days. It’s an outdoorsy time for most, but not for me. I’ve been hanging out at my desk, and for a lot of the time, staring at a screen.
Since making the big move from Wordpress.com across to my own domain using Wordpress.org, I’ve been steadily tinkering away under the hood. I now have some idea of what it’s like when people get caught up with reconditioning things: clocks, cars, and other sundry ‘machines.’ It’s what goes on underneath that makes the outside … eventually … work so well. Well of course, anything to do with machines, engines, algebra, coding and anything vaguely associated with mathematics has guaranteed a vertical learning curve for this non-DIY little arty. I’ve had the smile wiped off my face more than a few times along the way, but right now, I’m feeling pretty darned pleased with myself. As a result, I wanted to write about how I got from where I was to where I am now blog-wise. If and when you decide to make the break to your own domain, you might find this longish post useful. You might also find some nuggets here if you’re thinking about making a move from another blogging content management system (CMS) to Wordpress.
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Comment Self Audit:Comment08
Day 1 of the 31 Day Blog Comment Challenge is over in Australia from where I’m writing. I’ve picked up on the overnight posts which include the task for Day 1: A Comment Self-Audit. So … here we go Do I comment daily? Well … yes and no. I try to make it habitual to
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