I’m sitting in bed at a little after 1 in the morning. I have to go to work in about 6 hours or so. I’m not really sleepy at all.
Today (yesterday I suppose) was very productive. As you may notice, I changed the design of Autumn Twilight to a modified version of the theme Fog by The Undersigned.
Between struggling with the css and php files to get this looking the way I wanted it, and getting my twitterstream looking right, I also managed to open a new professional blog: Developing Developer. I’ve been planning on starting a professional site for some time, and figured I might as well get around to it today. Developing Developer is where I’ll post career-focused stuff and blog posts on coding. It will eventually be a portal to my online resume/portfolio for professional stuff as well.
As if all this wasn’t enough. George, Elizabeth, and I managed to decide upon a name for our little organization (You’ll find out soon enough), registered the domain names and helped George setup a WordPress installation for his craft-sales site CunningCraft.com.
Oh yeah. I cleaned my room and my desk area. I also didn’t get up until about 2:00 in the afternoon, which explains why I’m sitting up writing instead of sleeping.
I was talking with @HerbisOrbis [site] on twitter the other day, and we talked a little bit about marketing and web-writing in general. I’m not good at being a media whore. I am a bit too principled to follow everyone who follows me on Twitter, and I don’t like writing link-bait. But I realize that if I’m going to build a strong brand for myself and my community, I’m going to need to put a little more work into it. Hence the redesign and the creation of a professional blog.
I will also be trying to post more informative and generally-useful things to autumn twilight, although I won’t be abandoning the personal nature or tone of the blog itself. I do foresee a time when I may need to segment my personal spiritual/magical writings from my public ones, but that day has not yet come.
January 2nd, 2009 at 10:42 am
We’re on the same page, Theo, regarding the marketing and the shaping of blogs. I plan to give mine a facelift soon as well. Marketing myself doesn’t come naturally to me and I don’t even Tweet or Digg every post I write — just the ones I think others will find educational or useful. So — here’s to crafting more of that sort of material in 2009!
By the way, Twitter is TOTALLY flooded with internet marketers… very hard to separate the wheat from the chaff.
January 2nd, 2009 at 11:24 am
I’m always frustrated by the use of Twitter and other services for nothing other than marketing. It makes me more than a little upset. These tools are meant for networking and community building. Using them for nothing more than building huge ad-nets is counter-productive in my mind.