Monday, February 28, 2005
Frank Schmidt - One Genius at Genius One
I'm in the middle of a Skype conversation with Frank and looking at his blog- Frank's Blog. Take a look - I think you'll like it.
Now available for XML, Atom and RSS Feeds
Just added this site to Feedburner giving me syndication potential through all of the feed streams shown above. Talk about accelerated learning!
There is a button just above the Links heading on the sidebar that will automatically provide the link in your favoured format - magic!
Now all I need to do is to make people aware that this blog is here. Don't think it's Field of Dreams territory 'build it and they will come' - more promote it and you might get some traffic.
There is a button just above the Links heading on the sidebar that will automatically provide the link in your favoured format - magic!
Now all I need to do is to make people aware that this blog is here. Don't think it's Field of Dreams territory 'build it and they will come' - more promote it and you might get some traffic.
Sunday, February 27, 2005
A reminder of why I live here
Today has been blue skies from dawn to dusk with a clarity of light that makes this place look magical. To get into Falmouth this morning involved driving through Swanpool and past the beach which was already busy. It isn't warm, of course, so no Rio beach scenes, but plenty of people out nonetheless. A steady breeze has the sea agitated and the view out across the bay to St Anthony's Head is, as it often is, stunning.
Tonight I chose to drive out to Maenporth Beach. It is only a mile from home and a different world. When I was here before, in 2001/2, doing my PG Dip in Professional Writing, Maenporth was my inspiration and my refuge, and it still serves both purposes.
When Cornwall appears decked out in sunshine, it is easy to understand its appeal to so many writers now and in the past. The Daphne Du Maurier literary Festival takes place in Fowey, Cornwall later in the spring. I'll blog details of that soon. It looks like it will be an exceptional event. Maybe this year I'll get there.
Tonight I chose to drive out to Maenporth Beach. It is only a mile from home and a different world. When I was here before, in 2001/2, doing my PG Dip in Professional Writing, Maenporth was my inspiration and my refuge, and it still serves both purposes.
When Cornwall appears decked out in sunshine, it is easy to understand its appeal to so many writers now and in the past. The Daphne Du Maurier literary Festival takes place in Fowey, Cornwall later in the spring. I'll blog details of that soon. It looks like it will be an exceptional event. Maybe this year I'll get there.
Saturday, February 26, 2005
Making a start
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I'm just one more voice in the hundreds of thousands of Bloggers active today. Even as someone who is making their living by writing, I'm not that unusual. Several UK newspapers now have their own blogs. So what can I offer in my own blog that I don't put into my published work?
Good question, that. I'll answer it when I've worked it out.
I'm a professional writer, living in Cornwall. In that one sentence is the story of a change process that has been taking place now for some years. Most of my working life I have been in IT. I've been an analyst/programmer, a business analyst, System Development Manager and Merchandise Inventory Controller for two major retailers and an IT sales person for three organisations in the E-commerce (and before that EDI) marketplace. I've been freelance since 1998 when my last company and I parted. In 2001/2, I took the Professional Writing post grad Diploma at Falmouth College of Arts and in October last year, finally relocated from Hampshire in the UK to Falmouth.
I'm very involved with networking, both at a local level and nationally - indeed internationally. I am a member of Ecademy and of Linkedin and you are welcome to connect with me in either network. I co-lead Ecademy Cornwall and Ecademy Writers clubs and I am part of the team developing an international initiative to draw attention to the inequality in the availability of food in the world.
For Hungry Week, an initiative that is being developed by Ecademy members but which will soon break out on to the web, I was researching hunger and obesity. Those who know me, will know that I carry some additional poundage that I'd love to lose. The figures are stark - 847 million hungry in the world but over 1 billion overweight (and over 300,000 obese), and there are 2700 calories available each day for EVERY PERSON in the world - enough to feed the world with some to spare. The website for Hungry Week will go live soon.
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I'm just one more voice in the hundreds of thousands of Bloggers active today. Even as someone who is making their living by writing, I'm not that unusual. Several UK newspapers now have their own blogs. So what can I offer in my own blog that I don't put into my published work?
Good question, that. I'll answer it when I've worked it out.
I'm a professional writer, living in Cornwall. In that one sentence is the story of a change process that has been taking place now for some years. Most of my working life I have been in IT. I've been an analyst/programmer, a business analyst, System Development Manager and Merchandise Inventory Controller for two major retailers and an IT sales person for three organisations in the E-commerce (and before that EDI) marketplace. I've been freelance since 1998 when my last company and I parted. In 2001/2, I took the Professional Writing post grad Diploma at Falmouth College of Arts and in October last year, finally relocated from Hampshire in the UK to Falmouth.
I'm very involved with networking, both at a local level and nationally - indeed internationally. I am a member of Ecademy and of Linkedin and you are welcome to connect with me in either network. I co-lead Ecademy Cornwall and Ecademy Writers clubs and I am part of the team developing an international initiative to draw attention to the inequality in the availability of food in the world.
For Hungry Week, an initiative that is being developed by Ecademy members but which will soon break out on to the web, I was researching hunger and obesity. Those who know me, will know that I carry some additional poundage that I'd love to lose. The figures are stark - 847 million hungry in the world but over 1 billion overweight (and over 300,000 obese), and there are 2700 calories available each day for EVERY PERSON in the world - enough to feed the world with some to spare. The website for Hungry Week will go live soon.
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