Thank-you and farewell

Well, I'm moving along to another department and would like to say thank-you to all the participants who made the last year fulfilling for me as a trainer. I very much appreciated all the hard work and entertaining days working with those who embraced the world of Blogging, as well as the range of productions we worked on through-out the year.

I'm sure many of you will be developing your career steps and be having fun planning your future goals. I will be continuing to Blog but with a new Blog which you are welcome to read or subscribe to. It can be found here. I hope that the Bloggers in the group continue to Blog and feel free to leave any comments on the new Blog if you have questions about Blogging or any social media, or just to say hello.

"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

C.S. Lewis

Career Planning

Here are some steps we took today to research some of our career options. I drew up a simple table outlining.

Study Career Industry Wage

1. University Photography Music $15.22

2. TAFE Technical Support IT $18.77

3. Trades Plumber Council $18.67

4. Own Business Furniture Maker Own Business $17.30

5. Private Courses Hairdresser Film and TV $17.08

6. Defence Electrician Manufacturing $19.19

I looked for the Payscale information at Work Place Authority.

From this simple table we are able to begin our research on careers and keep in perspective the pay and industries we may be heading towards. The next step is to find out a little about the job we are after.

Student Diary 2009 Cover Design Competition

Okay, so let's have a crack at this, here are the specs.

Artwork needs to be in colour and the requirements are strictly as follows:

3MM bleed all around the borders
300 DPI
Save as high resolution PDF
Leave 10MM on left edge for spiral binding
Colour CMYK

Entries close at 5.00pm on Friday 25th July 2008

MCards and Blogging

So we've finished off some major projects and now I thought we'd relax a while into some more Blogging while we begin on our MCards (Mobile), VCards (Virtual), DCards (Digital), ECards (Electronic) or whatever term we want to use. Let's discuss next week some more on our distribution strategy as far as QR (Quick Response) 2 Dimensional Barcoding, and 3GP formats. Today we discussed some of the reasons people Blog ...

1. Personal Opinion.
2. Social Media.
3. Promoting Business.
4. Self-Branding.
5. Jibber-Jabbering.
6. Social.
7. Geographical.

Of course there isn't anything profound or spectacular about why people Blog and I suppose that this is the point, Blogging is a networking media run by individuals, and as a simple tool for expression, there lies its wonder.

We talked about some places to find Blogs ...

1. Buggerall.
2. Google Blogsearch.
3. Technorati.
4. Ice Rocket.

Don't forget that Blogs are perfect places to keep notes and host your graphics, drafts of, and final outcomes.

Web Forum in Review

Thanks to everyone who attended our informal web forum on Unemployment and Depression. Unfortunately we started twenty-minutes late due to technical difficulties, the plug-in not being accepted on my computer but the issue was resolved by removing the downloaded plug-in file and then re-installing it. The conversation was all really good between everyone, and although we didn't really have a formal procedure I felt that the time we spent using an Online Web Conferencing tool was beneficial.

Other issues to remember in future was the uploaded PDF files not being readable and next time we do a project like this I will rectify that by using larger font.

We certainly could have gone on for longer, I think that just with text the forum was a bit jumbled and perhaps the benefit of several Webcams and keynote speakers might have ordered it a bit more precisely.

I think the topic also may have been too general and our subject matter concentrating on either Depression or Unemployment. Probably Unemployment as Depression is a difficult subject matter to discuss but I think that being aware and even discussing it on the level we did can only help bring awareness to the matter.

Once again, well done everyone, and if you have any feedback, feel free to leave a comment at the bottom of this post.

Animator vs Animation

Here a short video I thought the class might be amused and entertained by.

No Rain. No Rainbows. Web Conference.

We would like to invite you to view our Digital Flyer for the Web Conference we are holding on the themes of depression and unemployment at http://www.dimdim.com/ on the 6th of May (Tuesday) at 2pm. The details on how to attend are shown on the Flyer, please feel free to embed this Flyer into your own website or email the link to friends and colleagues you feel might be interested in attending.

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Hope to catch you there!