I haven’t been here for a while and there have been some problems… down there…
Well not my “down there” but the “down there” of this website… the back end. Â The engine room.
But I think we’re back on track and as soon as I work out how to fix the images on this thing we might even have a proper working blog.
Sigh.
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So this is me and allconsuming at the dinner dance which followed the first ever Australian Bloggers Conference.
Note the tweeter in the background.
OMG everyone was tweeting.
Except me because my stupid phone stupidly ran out of batteries and then I took it upstairs to charge but stupidly forgot that when you take your passcard key out of the little slot all the electricity is turned off and so the phone ran even further out of batteries. Belief!
Anyway, I tried tweeting during the conference discussions and it was too distracting… so I stopped and then I got told off by Kelley (so glad to have met you even though you scolded me for not replying to your tweets).
What a biatch.
But I was glad I stopped because I was missing out on some gems because I was too busy coming up with witty comments or trying to, and reading the chatter.
So what did I learn?
Well in the social media part I quite liked the “Twitter Formula” for successful twittering:
20% me
30% flogging your blog
50% retweeting and interesting links
That sounds quite good don’t you think?
Because what I’m liking more and more about twitter is the personal recommendations for other good stuff online… you expect a bit of self-recommendation so that’s okay and I do love a little small talk but a mix is best I think.
Which is fair because she blames me for getting up to dance the nutbush when she CLEARLY wanted to.
‘Sif she wanted to just sit at the table, drink wine and chat. 🙂
Anyway in the space of 24 hours I found myself tweeting all sorts of rubbish: Â The price of scrambled eggs, the navigation fail on the ferry, the wet wet weather… why does it always come down to weather with me?
And I was checking in to #ausblogcon2011 every few minutes checking in on my new bloggy friends.
Today I’ve noticed that the behaviour has continued.
Facebook?
Oh yeah I remember you.
One of the things to come out of the Social Media section was the thought that creating a page for your blog was better than using your personal profile.
And if you’re using it to add value to your blog well maybe it is.
Do I want to go there?
Maybe. Once the twittermoon is over… *cringes at dreadful mash-up of Twitter and Honeymoon*
So I learned a few things, was inspired to blog some more, and met some fantastic people.
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Hey I met River! Â A regular commenter on this blog!
And shout outs to Kelly who sat next to me and had magnetic cards (very sexy), Ally who came up and said hi (yay!) and Rebecca who convinced me to have one too many cocktails at the open bar welcome drinkies. But weren’t they delicious!
I can also see myself going to the 2012 conference.
I think the organisers have learned a lot.
Personally, I’d like to see sessions on “form versus content”… Â maybe a debate?, “must have widgets”, “effective graphics/banners/images” to name a few.
It would be good to get some concurrent sessions looking at various blogging platforms – blogger, wordpress etc so you can ask questions, Â maybe get some tips and tricks, news, how to get the best out of your chosen platform.
Maybe something on cool apps – for both iphone and android.
Maybe there could be breakout socialising sessions for various blogging niches – mummy bloggers, personal bloggers, craft bloggers, dads, food, reviews, fashion – that might also encourage a greater range of bloggers to attend.
Yep I reckon you need two days.
The dinner dance was a revelation.
I thought goodness, whose going to want to go to a practically 100% female dinner dance?
But it was so nice to dress up and chat with all these lovely women.
And to be honest, you bloody blokes don’t dance anyway.
And we did dress up.
Which goes to show that we don’t dress for men.
I wonder if next year there’ll be a more even gender balance?
Gawd I’ve waffled on haven’t I?
Well one last observation for now:
Have you had a go drying your hands in one of these?
I’m not sure they are as effective as the slogan suggests but they are SUCH good fun!
Tragically your correspondent was seen wetting her hands just so she could dry them again.
So yay.
Great conference, great city, great stories and great fun.
[note that the makers of the hand-dryer did sponsor the dinner dance but this mention is not sponsored at all. I don’t have one of their vacuum cleaners and am very happy with the one I have… especially as Groover does the vacuuming anyway]
Blog cards were not on my radar for things to take to the Aussie Bloggers Conference in Sydney this weekend (OMG only a few days away!!) so when I read Tiff’s latest post I almost fell off my swivel chair.
What a good idea.
But I’m heading to Bunbury for two days for work and then I’m off to Sydney so when can I get blog cards made?!
Then I remembered a packet of business card printy thingys that I bought a hundred years ago.
Could I find them amongst all the bills and wine in my office/wine storage unit?
Of course I could.
But then…
What to write?
Do I just write my handle? Â Or my real name? Or both?
Facebook profile?
Twitter?
When did life get so complicated??
At least I have got some new boots to wear and I hear the weather will be cool.
Loving the idea of rain.
What a novelty!
Update: Pretty much FAIL. Ah well. Who needs blog cards anyway – you know who I am.
Oh and if you want to see who is coming along to the conference on Saturday – check out the list below:
Not that if I’d been organised I couldn’t have gone anyway but I wasn’t so I was on the waiting list and then I get an email yesterday from Fiona, well really from an organiser who cc’d me in on her reply to Fiona, and Fiona couldn’t go so I got her ticket.Â
Yay!
I booked flights before I could think things through too quickly (after making of course the requisite checks with spouse and boss) and I’m going to Sydney!
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Well we’ve been catching up recently on a Friday afternoon down at one of our fave haunts – Havana – and when I told her about the conference she was all “hey I think I’ll be in Sydney around the same time”.
So now the plan is that she’ll come to Sydney the weekend before – we’ll hang out at the dinner with hopefully James as well – and then we’ve got the next couple of days to chillax.
Double yay!
Good things are supposed to come in threes…
Can’t wait to find out what the triple yay thing is.
So I’m at the Media140 conference in Perth – a conference about tweeting and facebooking and blogging and the impact of social media on marketing and corporations.
Some of the issues already raised are ones I think most corporations are facing – especially those who already have a social profile – like radio stations etc… you know the whole what people should be able to say online, what if they bring your brand into disrepute one night after consuming a bottle of Tequila…
One of the more interesting speakers this morning was Jared Woods who is the Communications Manager with SKM – an engineering firm.
I guess I never considered that even engineering firms would have to deal with social media.
One of their policies at SKM (which I assume got past the board once the board learned what Facebook was) is that if you say you work for the company you need to abide by the Avatar Dress Code – which is basically you should dress in your picture as you might for work.
Fair enough.
In fact… I think that’s a good policy.
There was a lot of talk of monitoring what staff say about your brand using Google alerts and something called Social Mention.
I’m sitting here listening to a session on brand reputation and it is a vexed issue.
I get that.
But I think it is also a vexed issue for “private” bloggers/tweeters/facebookers.
Increasingly, Â work and home life is blurring online.
I’ve been writing this blog for myself since 2002. Â
Before Facebook, before twitter, before my work had computers on every desk (okay… not quite that long).
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So does that mean I can write what I like on this blog?
I mean obviously I’m not going to slag off work or my colleagues but maybe I shouldn’t be writing posts about my new underwear policy.
How much do I allow the work filter to affect my choices on this blog – on my twitter feed?
And of course while I can try and control what is in the personal bucket and what is in the work bucket, I can’t control what others do.
For example my personal twitter account has been linked in with other people’s twitter lists – using my work as a tag.
So now my personal profile is linked to work.
Not my doing.Â
Does it mean my personal handle is compromised to such an extent that I can’t write what I like?
My feeling is no.
But that could be my heart more than my head.
I love this space to write about things that take my fancy. To write about my life.
It has taken me some time to jump on the twitter bandwagon and I’m not sure why.
It was work that did it.
We were playing with twitter today, working out how to use it, encouraging our team to have a go and I thought… well maybe I should try it.
So I did.
It’s really quite addictive as twitterers out there will know.
I think maybe because it is SO easy.
I think the important things I’ve learned so far are:
Change your background ASAP so you look like a real person
Follow people who follow you
Reply to others by putting an @ symbol before their username
Enjoy the ride because it is one!
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The questions I have for bloggers though – does Twitter improve your page accesses or not?
And do you find that you have less time for blogging if you are active on Twitter?
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I’m intrigued to see who he chooses to support! Â
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It’s interesting. Â I started writing this blog for myself I guess, as a record of our lives… it was public, then it wasn’t, now it is again.
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My virtual community had become real.
Blogging has become more important to me in recent years, I think possibly because I don’t have that regular connection with a radio community anymore. Â I love the interaction. Â I love reading other people’s blogs and getting an insight into their lives. Â I love being part of a virtual community.
All of this is a long-winded way of saying thank you. Â Thanks for visiting (you know how I love the drop in) and thanks for commenting and (for those of you who do) thanks for letting me in to your life.
And if you are new to redsultana – welcome – and please check out my Linky Love page.
This is my family at the party we had on Saturday night for my Dad (70) and my little sister (40).
Make sure you keep the length, said my sister as we uploaded this photo today, we don’t want to look any fatter than necessary. No worries I thought, that suits me!
Ah. This website seems to be working again sans multi-level navigation and automatic WordPress upgrade plugins. Meh who needs them.
A fast loading site is all I want. Or in fact a loading site.
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Tonight she goes back to the States.
I feel like I’ve only just had time to say hi and she’s gone again.
At the birthday she had us all in tears talking about Dad. She spoke of someone who could do anything – and that’s what he’s like. But that’s also what she’s like.Â
She’s told me to stop now… but it’s my blog and I will write what I like. So there!
[The title of this post is a homage to one of my favourite albums: Christine Lavin’s Beau Woes and Other Problems of Modern Life. An album with such classics as Prince Charles, Air Conditioning, Ballad of a Ballgame and Doris and Edwin The Movie.]
So you might have noticed that my domain name expired and redsultana.com was out of commission for a day or so over the weekend.
I can’t believe how bad it made me feel. Like a shag on a rock… or possibly a tree. 🙂
Apart from feeling like my whole arm was chopped off it really took from me the power to communicate. It felt as if someone was compressing the oxygen tube. Yes. I was gasping.
Ironically, just the night before (at the clever dinner) I was chatting with Silvertongue about this very blog. She was asking me why I did it and didn’t it feel a bit like an invasion of privacy and how did I feel about complete strangers knowing about my life…
I told her that it was almost compulsive now. That I’ve never had success in keeping a diary but for the last five years have blogged nearly every week, lately every day. My theory is that I need you to read it to validate writing it. Which at the time felt a bit sad but then when you think about it why write a diary at all unless you want it to be read – possibly by your ancestors but at the very least by yourself.
So my obsessive compulsive blogging justified I jumped online at the first opportunity on Saturday and uploaded the photos from our dinner.
Five minutes later my site had disappeared.
What the hell happened to my website?!
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Turns out that that random email was supposed to be my email address. (I know… n00b!)
So my domain name expires and my website disappears and I work out (pretty quickly at that point) that I needed to change the administrative email address to mine and did so but then of course I couldn’t transfer my domain for 60 days under the rules. WTF!
I decided to renew my domain name with my old provider for another year, and then I find out that because it was expired it will take 24-72 hours to restore.
Well at least that’s shorter than 60 days.
At that point, I took a deep breath. There was absolutely nothing more I could do. I breathed in. I breathed out. I got a large glass of wine and watched Doctor Who and Australian Idol.
I set my alarm. I went to bed.
Today my site came back. I am whole.
Lessons Learned
Make sure the administrative email associated with your domain name is actually yours. If it isn’t, change it now. Just do it.