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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