Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts
Thursday, June 07, 2012
This blog has moved
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Sunday, June 03, 2012
Efficient social media management
All the major digital art talents agree on one thing- it's vital to get connected.
As Bobby Chiu (or was it Neil Gaiman?) said "Think of yourself as an island, you have to put a lot of messages in bottles/build a lot of bridges to other islands to get a response.".
In the interests of getting more connected with the greater art-world then, I'm going to start blogging again. Blogging, tweeting, updating face book. The problem is, it takes time. Time I should spend working. So I looked in to it. There's this tweet management tool called "Hootsuite" that's supposed to make it easy to update multiple social media accounts at once. But it doesn't update blogs too. Unless you hook it up to Ping FM, which is being replaced by Seesmic. Bloody hell, what a mess. Surely there's a single, free, tool that helps you manage ALL social media. Well, at least it's a step in the right direction, so from now on I'll be updating my social media accounts with hootsuite, linked to Seesmic, which may add Blog functionality later this year. If you know of a better solution, please let me know. I'll also be adding better, regular content to this blog, to make it worth following.
As Bobby Chiu (or was it Neil Gaiman?) said "Think of yourself as an island, you have to put a lot of messages in bottles/build a lot of bridges to other islands to get a response.".
In the interests of getting more connected with the greater art-world then, I'm going to start blogging again. Blogging, tweeting, updating face book. The problem is, it takes time. Time I should spend working. So I looked in to it. There's this tweet management tool called "Hootsuite" that's supposed to make it easy to update multiple social media accounts at once. But it doesn't update blogs too. Unless you hook it up to Ping FM, which is being replaced by Seesmic. Bloody hell, what a mess. Surely there's a single, free, tool that helps you manage ALL social media. Well, at least it's a step in the right direction, so from now on I'll be updating my social media accounts with hootsuite, linked to Seesmic, which may add Blog functionality later this year. If you know of a better solution, please let me know. I'll also be adding better, regular content to this blog, to make it worth following.
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Back to Top links
I've just put in some back to top links which get repeated on all posts.
This is a test post to check they get repeated in the posts HTML.
This is a test post to check they get repeated in the posts HTML.
Friday, June 30, 2006
Cascading Style Sheep
Update~ just grabbed all the Blogger.com base CSS to alter the look of every part of this blog!
All your base are belong to us.
All your base are belong to us.
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
What is Runninghead?
This Blog is run from the runninghead site. At present the blog is known only to myself so I'm writing for any audience that might turn up at some time in the future. I think the first useful post might be to explain exactly what the runninghead enterprise is.
Initially it arose as an attempt to make my artistic skills more commercial.
I've always loved mucking about on computers and some time after my Fine Art degree I trained in print and webdesign.
The first incarnation of the runninghead site was set up with an expensive private host and was designed primarily to present my new found web skills.
I also envisaged it as a portal to a collective of affiliated Creatives, each full or part-time freelancer a node in a net of mutually reinforcing skills.
The site has yet to officially include any other Creatives (we're a competetive bunch) though effectively the runninghead collective already operates on an informal basis.
Later, when I really started to get more web-savvy, runninghead moved to a very low-cost, high value server where it had all the functionality and space to run around like a free-range chicken.
It then developed to include not just print and web material but also paintings and other creative endeavours (a folio of Flash interactives is pending).
Runninghead now serves mainly to present my design and illustration folios to the world.
I've been freelance for 4 years now, full time freelance for about 3.
There you have it, and for those curious- a runninghead is an old print term for a chapter header that is printed at (usually) the top right corner of every page in a book, letting you know where you are all the way through.
I'm currently learning XHTML and becoming a CSS Jedi with the aid of the really excellent "CSS Mastery", a Friends Of Ed Book by Andy Budd and partners.
Initially it arose as an attempt to make my artistic skills more commercial.
I've always loved mucking about on computers and some time after my Fine Art degree I trained in print and webdesign.
The first incarnation of the runninghead site was set up with an expensive private host and was designed primarily to present my new found web skills.
I also envisaged it as a portal to a collective of affiliated Creatives, each full or part-time freelancer a node in a net of mutually reinforcing skills.
The site has yet to officially include any other Creatives (we're a competetive bunch) though effectively the runninghead collective already operates on an informal basis.
Later, when I really started to get more web-savvy, runninghead moved to a very low-cost, high value server where it had all the functionality and space to run around like a free-range chicken.
It then developed to include not just print and web material but also paintings and other creative endeavours (a folio of Flash interactives is pending).
Runninghead now serves mainly to present my design and illustration folios to the world.
I've been freelance for 4 years now, full time freelance for about 3.
There you have it, and for those curious- a runninghead is an old print term for a chapter header that is printed at (usually) the top right corner of every page in a book, letting you know where you are all the way through.
I'm currently learning XHTML and becoming a CSS Jedi with the aid of the really excellent "CSS Mastery", a Friends Of Ed Book by Andy Budd and partners.
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