It has been an interesting week...I choose to stay up a little longer and carry on working, not really by choice as the house was so noisy there wasn't much point in going to bed. However the work I did get done doesn't make that much sense...really need to re-write a post over on my site...sleep deprivation and dyslexia do not make for good comprehension for others.
Anyhow I have been spending the weekend catching up on some sleep and much needed rest, along with ignoring the possible sore throat I appear to still have. This translates into spending most the the weekend plugged into my laptop on the living room sofa and playing about with various interesting things to do with my website. I have also managed to catch up with some friends thanks to e-mail and multi-tasking smart phones, things that I have come to be thankful for now I realise a lot of my closest friends no longer live anywhere near me.
Yet I do appear to like doing website related work to unwind as well as editing things down to their pixels in Photoshop! It is a good thing though as I have now learnt a little thing about the API authentication on Twitter...well say learnt...sort of come to understand why it's there. This does mean that I now have Twitter integrated into my site so when I publish a post it will also have the option of being sent to Twitter. The widget also allows me to put share buttons on my posts which I have chosen to do for Twitter, Facebook, Buzz and Linked In as it gives me a handy way to publish posts to those sites if I need to as well. Am thinking ahead here more than anything, but at the same time am worried it will come across as to presumptuous. Yet I have been reading too many blogs and articles about your online identity and representation recently thanks to a site who's owner is coming to the university soon to do a talk on social media and networking. It got me thinking and in my ever organised, verging on OCD way, I wanted to have things in place now so as not to worry about them later when I am a graduate looking for work!
It some respects the social media thing seems like a intangible concept and some people believe that there is no need for an online presence. Some people on my course are even proud of the fact that they don't appear anywhere online. I am not of this opinion as I do have a lot of sites that I use and it is not until recently that I have been concerned with how all these places may appear, let alone promoting myself. As it's one thing to have an online presence it's another entirely to get that presence noticed. I do think it works though as I have a friend that got contacted by a company interested in her work due to her online portfolio. Yet there is also my blog and website which does not get viewed by many people at all. However I have not tried to get it noticed yet and am only just starting to learn about how to go about it...yet is it really going to be worth it or is it a waste of time?
My reasoning would be that right now it's not a waste of time as I am in my first year and have the time and the freedom to experiment and try and find out what works and what doesn't. I just need to be careful as I have recently discovered by Googling my own name nothing on the net is ever truly deleted. Something that I fear some of my younger class mates may not truly appreciate yet...
Anyway this is also a slight distraction from my actual work I am supposed to be getting on with at the moment. As I feel I have a serious case of writers/artists block and just can't get my head in the game for creating my game. Maybe if I tell myself that the deadline is in a week my elusive muse may return.... :)
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