All Set Up and Ready To Build
Whaddya know… I have gone against my usual tendency to analyze something to death before making a move and decided to go for a buzzed up domain name after all. I’m going to trust my instincts on this one… the url will be revealed when the site is launched. It was the fastest decision I have ever made about a web project. From the time I checked the availability of the name to the time I got the hosting server up and running took approximately two hours. I even managed to get Wordpress set up and migrated my Blogger content over to the new server in that time. It will take about 2 weeks to get the website ready for showtime. Meanwhile, I’ll still be blogging here.
Blog Plans
So it’s about midnight on a Sunday morning. Some people may be boozing themselves to the moon, loving it up on soft surfaces, or maybe snoring away but I, having been beaten by the 2.0 bug am keeping my eyelids open with the help of invisible toothpicks. Although I am physically shattered, I am driven to share some developments with you before I hit they hay.
I’ve decided to move this blog to a hosted space running WordPress. This will happen sometime in the beginning of next week. I’ve also decided not to use my existing domain and get a new one. I have a few likely contenders, but am not entirely convinced that I should go for a domain name with buzz-appeal because buzzes expire.
So the search for the right concept continues…
The Magic of LinkedIn
While everyone is busy talking about Facebook, let me throw in a bit of a likely curveball and bring up the professional social networking website LinkedIn. I did a search on someone I wanted to be back in touch with in 2004 and found her on LinkedIn. I signed up just so I could send her an email, but there wasn’t much going on in there and I was waiting for it to take off. I think the time for LinkedIn to be in the spotlight is now.
With 16 million registered users, they are a force to be reckoned with where your professional connections are concerned. I found most of my wonderful ex-colleagues sitting on this quiet business networking site. It looks like the LinkedIn team gave the website a facelift and beefed it up to anticipate an explosion in social-generated content; it is looking like it is on its way to being a platform and not just another website. I am predicting they will be more than huge following the enhancement of the site now that it is going to be a whole lot more than just a contact list-on-speed. Have a feeling there’s going to be more news on LinkedIn in the coming days and weeks so stay tuned…
Tweetmania
I was introduced to the Twitter phenomenon sometime in September by a coworker, but as a veteran web journalist I was skeptical and pretty much slagged it off as an annoying tool to validate obsessive-compulsive behavior. If it wasn’t for
After all, Facebook’s built-in tweeting widget would reach my social network if I felt like sharing between stretching sessions and working on the next web solution. But Facebook’s restrictive tweeting system couldn’t do what I wanted it to do. It presented me as a third person with a bizarrely solipsistic inquiry toward my own ego. A “
But I am essentially the same individual with finite minutes and hours in a day, my tweets should be syndicated to all the websites I have a presence at to maintain a sense of connectivity with my readers. While Twitter may not serve everyone, it seems to be the answer to those with a fragmented virtual presence who may want to maintain a consistent sense of dynamism without the time to slave away at individual website updates.
Do check out my tweets under “What I Am Doing” on the right, or get it on the fun at Twitter.com
Who?
JACQUELINE MIAO
Web Strategist
PRINCE2 Project Manager
Location: London, U.K.-
