Just thinking I should post something here.
Congrats to Milli for winning the SGAU Group Admin election. Good luck!
In personal news:
- I'm liking that I only have two units to work through at uni, instead of the usual four per study period. Scheduling means that I won't get the degree finished until the end of this year, but I'm okay with that.
- The reason I'm okay with that is that I'm going to use the "spare" time to start setting up myself as a freelancer. Once I have my little B.A (Internet Studies) piece of paper, I'd like to be earning an income with it before the government stops paying me Austudy.
- Although my intention is to earn an income through a broad range of ongoing sources, I'll be focusing on two particular "jobs": web design & development and online community management.
- Web design & development is pretty well-known, but it's a role that's evolving as people realise that it's not just a case of knowing design and knowing code. There are a whole range of extra aspects of which someone in the field needs to, at the very least, have an appreciable understanding: usability and information architecture are just two of them.
- Online community management is an increasingly emergent role. Some of you on SG that I know asked me about this early last year and I was all "uh... well it's kinda new and hard to explain... but the demand is growing." I'm thankful to have realised that I was right. 2007 was the year that online community management achieved plausability and approached necessity. A bunch of online community managers have since emerged from research firms, to software companies, to the online community manager of Lego!
- My plan is to approach online community management from a freelance perspective. A lot of businesses have websites but don't know how to develop an online community around their business. That's where I'll be focusing my skills - a few clients at a time, achieving the basics with reproducible plans.
In other personal news:
- Goldfish is moving into her own place, so my flatmate and I have a spare room in Moreton Street, New Farm, available from Wednesday 12 March.
- Kat (the flatmate) and I are both very quiet, and it's a quiet building. Expect little noise from us. We're both heavy internet users. Me for my work and degree; Kat for playing WoW with her mum in the UK (her mum pwns your mum).
Today:
- I'm off to the Fine Food trade show this morning.
- I'm seeing An Horse at the Powerhouse this afternoon - if you're about, get in touch and we can meet there!
- I'm seeing Iron & Wine at The Zoo tonight with S_Eldorado. Should be awesome.
Congrats to Milli for winning the SGAU Group Admin election. Good luck!
In personal news:
- I'm liking that I only have two units to work through at uni, instead of the usual four per study period. Scheduling means that I won't get the degree finished until the end of this year, but I'm okay with that.
- The reason I'm okay with that is that I'm going to use the "spare" time to start setting up myself as a freelancer. Once I have my little B.A (Internet Studies) piece of paper, I'd like to be earning an income with it before the government stops paying me Austudy.
- Although my intention is to earn an income through a broad range of ongoing sources, I'll be focusing on two particular "jobs": web design & development and online community management.
- Web design & development is pretty well-known, but it's a role that's evolving as people realise that it's not just a case of knowing design and knowing code. There are a whole range of extra aspects of which someone in the field needs to, at the very least, have an appreciable understanding: usability and information architecture are just two of them.
- Online community management is an increasingly emergent role. Some of you on SG that I know asked me about this early last year and I was all "uh... well it's kinda new and hard to explain... but the demand is growing." I'm thankful to have realised that I was right. 2007 was the year that online community management achieved plausability and approached necessity. A bunch of online community managers have since emerged from research firms, to software companies, to the online community manager of Lego!
- My plan is to approach online community management from a freelance perspective. A lot of businesses have websites but don't know how to develop an online community around their business. That's where I'll be focusing my skills - a few clients at a time, achieving the basics with reproducible plans.
In other personal news:
- Goldfish is moving into her own place, so my flatmate and I have a spare room in Moreton Street, New Farm, available from Wednesday 12 March.
- Kat (the flatmate) and I are both very quiet, and it's a quiet building. Expect little noise from us. We're both heavy internet users. Me for my work and degree; Kat for playing WoW with her mum in the UK (her mum pwns your mum).
Today:
- I'm off to the Fine Food trade show this morning.
- I'm seeing An Horse at the Powerhouse this afternoon - if you're about, get in touch and we can meet there!
- I'm seeing Iron & Wine at The Zoo tonight with S_Eldorado. Should be awesome.
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I am certain I will be asking you questions. I was nearly in tears yesterday trying to figure out how to use the freakin' gradient tool!!!!!!! ARGH! I eventually found a tutorial on YouTube.