July 2009
Monthly Archive
Introducing A New To-do-list App – Your Memory
Posted by admin on 31 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: Software, The Web, twitter
A few months ago I accidentally deleted my Google Calendar while trying to sync it to Microsoft outlook. Serves me right for trying to make that work. So after that naturally I sent out a rant on twitter. Shortly after that @beparadigm sent me a reply suggesting I just forget the calendar and just try to use my brain for a couple months. My initial reaction was are you crazy! Every little thing that I had to do in a day was on that, so how would I manage my day. Frustrated with the situation I resisted adding everything back into the calendar and took @beparadigm’s advice.
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Facebook – The Next Learning Management System
Posted by admin on 22 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: Moodle, Social Media, The Web, eLearning, education
Facebook basically started out as a way for some college friends to stay in touch, but has been opened up to the world and is one of the largest social mediums in the business. So how much time during a school day do students spend on Facebook versus the school’s Learning Management System (LMS)? Continue Reading »
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Freelancer or Cutthroat Pirate
Posted by admin on 16 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: design, freelance
Collaboration between designers, developers and creatives of all types is a booming trend for finding new work. With all of the tools out there to connect and share, collaboration has become so simple. So what happens when a couple or many freelancers with overlapping skills are working for a client that is going to need more work done in the near future?
A few weeks ago I responded to a tweet from a designer that was looking for a WordPress developer to take his design and make it work. This was exciting since it was my first real project that resulted from spending countless hours on Twitter. The project went smoothly working with the designer and the client to iron out a few things in the design. Finally after the site was built and online it was then my job to train the client how to use WordPress. The client was excited and happy to have their site online and ready to move onto the next project.
Since I was the last person that the client had contact with she came to me about designing her business cards and letterhead. Now I love this kind of work, but I had to politely decline and point her back into the direction of the original designer. This was his project and I was more or less a sub-contractor in this deal. I would have felt like a cutthroat pirate if I had snagged this project away from him.
Now the question is, what would you have done?
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