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Tag: #blogJUNE
Missing posts and busy days
Well bugger. A post a day and by day seven I’ve already missed two days. Continue reading Missing posts and busy days
Stolen wages built the state of Queensland
This morning I went along to the Brisbane stolen wages consultation at the Queensland Council of Trade Unions. I went with SistahG. During the Beattie years, the government decided to put aside $56 million as a compensation payment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
What’s Blog June?
For the oddest reason, I seem to fail at my own Deadly Bloggers 52 Week Blogging Challenge (1 post each week for 52 weeks), but #blogJUNE (1 post per day for 30 days) seems possible. Don’t ask me. I’m just odd. Continue reading What’s Blog June?
Keeping track
In the past hour or so the realisation has just hit me that I’m at the start of at least three specific writing/research projects and quite a few “empty” days in my calendar. Continue reading Keeping track
Arguing with old friends on Facebook
A very odd day today. That’s what happens when you post a seemingly uncontroversial link and within days you’ve been de-friended and blocked by an old school mate. Continue reading Arguing with old friends on Facebook
#blogJUNE is done
Well there you go. That’s #blogJUNE done and dusted. Apart from one mishap where I missed a day (I made up for it later), I have (incredibly) finished it.
It was a good exercise – forcing myself to have something in the mind each day to write about, and having to find cheats (ie. posting stuff from work or presentations & speeches).
It’s much easier to do a #blogJUNE when you only really blog for yourself, and not a business. I have “work” blogs that would benefit from increased content – but that would take much more planning.
Thanks flexnib for the inspiration, and hope to see you next year.
Why I began blogging?
One of the participants last week at the Queensland Indigenous Youth Leadership Program, asked me why I began blogging.
I originally began in 2008/09 after I attended a workshop, facilitated by Edgeware, but run by Eddie Harran. In that probably only one and a half hour workshop, Eddie explained everything from blogs, MySpace (was dying but not quite dead), Facebook, Flickr, Blogger, WordPress, RSS, Twitter and more. He gave context to the different platforms. I began to understand what things meant, in what order they happened, and importantly, how I could use them for my work.
But really, the answer to the question is, I began blogging for business. I wanted to share ideas about Indigenous education that I felt were being missed. I mean, it’s easy to talk to a group of pre-service teachers, but once they’ve graduated? It’s much hard to capture them. The odd after-school professional development session doesn’t really help people who know so little.
I had built websites from templates before Eddie’s talk. The first I probably built in the very early 2000s. It looked terrible. I continue (mostly) to build my own. I care less for the look of a site, than I do for the site’s organisation of information and the quality and usefulness of its content.
Why do I blog now? I still blog for business, but on this space in particular, I blog for myself. I rarely tweet out what I’ve written, I don’t count or measure the statistics. And the odd person or two eventually finds their way here.
Here. I blog for me.
Update: I was cleaning up the categories on Deadly Bloggers, and found this post I wrote in 2012. It relates.
I deleted the Facebook app off my phone
I’ve had one of those weeks. The self-doubt weeks. It’s during these weeks that I tend to delete Facebook “friends”. I have no idea why I do it. I mean I know the triggers and stuff. But I can’t work out why I think unfriending makes a difference. It’s all in my head. I know. Continue reading I deleted the Facebook app off my phone
#FollowFriday
I’ve been meaning to do this for a while, that is, document those deadly folks who are my #ff recommendations.
I first started this list back in September 2013 … a never ending list…
- @LukeLPearson – an energetic, passionate Koori educator who initiated and drove the rotation curation account @IndigenousX
- @IndigenousX – a rotation curation (shifts change each Thursday) of Indigenous Australian voices
- @AnitaHeiss – author and activist who tirelessly works for a range of grassroots community causes online and in real life
- @TheKooriWoman – her no holds barred political, cultural and social opinion. She games, she writes, swears, she’s deadly
- @NomadiqueMC – He’s sweary, he’s #metal and Green. One of the first people I followed on Twitter and one of the smartest brothas I know
- @Utopiana – not on the Twitterverse as much as the Facebookz, but if you need to keep up with her blogging, you must follow
- @SivParker – since joining the Twitterz she has owned it – storyteller, political observer, grassroots, activitist
- @Ren_1 – I can only describe in hashtags #realz #hiphop #critical #grassroots #truth
- @NareenYoung – a deadly sistah who never fails to stand up. Insightful, critical and essential
- @Liz_Loveslife – she doesn’t blog (much to my disappointment) but her mix of politics-edu-black tweets rocks
- @MsLou – black, feminist, lawyerly, unafraid
- @DrSRP – academic, intellectual, perceptive, fun. Asks questions, links meaningfully
- @DB_1974 Dameyon Bonson is a LGBQTI and Suicide Prevention Advocate. Makes you think and act
Don’t know what a #FF is? Don’t worry, it’s a little bit 2010, but here is a quick history: http://technorati.com/social-media/article/do-you-followfriday-on-twitter-what/