Thursday 24 January 2013

This is a photo from the third blogging training session - I took it on my phone and then uploaded it directly to Blogger, via the Blogger app (available for both Apple and Android devices).

I've added this text later, though I could have done so at the time. Cool, eh?

Training Day 3

Training Day 3 is going rather well so far - I think that using 4075 really helps, as does having a smaller group of people to teach.

It's still a lot of work to get everyone started, but Emma is doing a great job helping out.

I've added this picture of The Itchen Bridge because I rather like it

Friday 18 January 2013

First Training Session

We had the first training session on blogging today... which was... "interesting".

Unfortunately the weather threw the whole thing into chaos - I was late in, and Paula couldn't make it in at all. Given that Paula was looking after the bulk of the training on Blogger, that was a bit of a problem!

Between trying to work out what we needed to cover on the fly, and trying to solve the various problems and questions that came up - well, it wasn't easy and it certainly wasn't the smoothest training session I've ever delivered.

I think we kind of got there in the end - we covered the basics of getting a blog started, adding a page, adding a post, and inserting links and images.

That's just about enough for people to be able to blog themselves - though we didn't talk about adding labels/tags, and we didn't get to look at WordPress. I'm also terribly worried that I've confused everyone who was there!

That said, everyone will be able to read through the PDF guide - which I hope I've managed to make far more clear than this morning's session!

Tuesday 15 January 2013

It is the beginning of the end of the Christmas chocolate...

I have to say that I'm rather proud of this photo...
It is the beginning of the end of the Christmas chocolate... by Ric Paul
It is the beginning of the end of the Christmas chocolate..., a photo by Ric Paul on Flickr.
I took it with my phone, using the flash, and then used a bit of Instagram magic to emphasize the orange top and exaggerate the dark background.

The result is quite good, if I do say so myself!