follow the blog on Twitter
On September 26th
You are hereby invited to follow the Twitter feed for this blog, or look for my Twitter handle @workingthrough. This account is just for the blog posts. No minutae of my daily life, I promise.
Posts about Bloggery
New look, new web site: it’s OK to ask for help
On September 22nd
Welcome to my relaunch. I’ve developed a site at workingthrough.com to describe my better-defined consulting activities, and moved the blog to workingthrough.com/blog.
The smartest thing I did was to admit I needed help. It would have been fun for me to develop the site myself and spend my weekends reading manuals and FAQ’s and pushing buttons on the WordPress machine. But I didn’t need a hobby, I needed a functioning site.
The other smart thing I did was to contact the guy who wrote the WordPress theme I was using before. I like his clean and spare designs. Fortunately he was available for this project, so I hired him on as my Latvian Web Ninja and he has far exceeded expectations. We’ve done everything via email — we were going to talk via Skype but there hasn’t been a need. He’s been a fast worker and a clear communicator. (Since people ask me about this, I’ll add that his English is great). It’s been stunning how fast this has come together. Read more »
he doesn’t write like a drummer…
On July 26th
Dumbdrummer has good things to say about creative partnerships and more…
Great art blooms from the heartfelt, illogical, sometimes even embarrassing impulses we harbor. When we mess with those impulses too much, when we censor them, smooth the edges, and try to conform them to something we presume people will like, we destroy the vitality that makes our work compelling.
Why I don’t blog more often
On July 16th
It ruins my life. it’s too easy to be obsessive about thinking of material, noting other blogs and news items to link, checking the stats, etc.
Ecto makes it a little better because i can just write a little note like this without opening up my WordPress control panel, which makes one thing lead to another.
