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Fresh lick of ‘paint’ for this space

Elmine Wijnia — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:31:26 +0000

A chore long overdue, upgrading Wordpress on this site, combined with an enduring cold turned out to be a good reason to redesign this site.

Today I came across Olle’s site and he uses the Thematic theme framework. I loved the simpleness. After upgrading I installed this theme and added my personal touch to it, resulting in what you see now.

The colorbar is a variation on the colours I used for my new business site: elminewijnia.eu. A while back I wrote about letting go of the name Skallagrigg for my company name and migrate my online business-face elsewhere. And so I did. The .eu-domain is now a mostly static, bilingual site where I describe my services, showcase some of my work and tell more about me. So if you’re still wondering what I do for a living, you know where to go.

This will remain my blog. Indefinitely

New website for me and my colleagues

Elmine Wijnia — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:30:54 +0000

For two years now, together with three colleagues, I’ve been giving workshops on basic web 2.0 skills and online facilitation. Up until now we’ve used a wiki for announcing our workshops, but it wasn’t the proper platform. So at the end of 2009 we decided to claim a domain name and build a new website for a professional presentation of our workshops and services. So hearby I present to you (a Dutch site):

faciliteeronline.nl

Now that the website is finished, we can work on the next step: building an online community around the topic of online facilitation. It’s an area of expertise not many Dutch know of, but skills more and more needed by people organizing online projects or projects with an online part. Nancy White is a big inspiration for us and we’d like to pass that inspiration on to people in a Dutch context.

More on this soon, so if you’re interested, stay tuned!

Rethinking webpresence (15)

Elmine Wijnia — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:37:17 +0000

This week I spend some time together with Ton to restructure both our collection of websites. What began with just one weblog, grew into a whole collection of various websites where I manage my online identity (and I’m not talking about social networks).

My biggest concern is my Dutch (company) blog. I started it in 2005 when ‘I’ became ‘my own company’. For whatever reason(s) it never became a serious place to write for me, resulting in few posts and huge gaps in writing. Keeping up two general blogs appears to be too much for me. (Gosh, I’m jealous of all those Anglo-saxons that don’t have to worry about serving multiple linguistic groups.)

So what to do with skallagrigg.net? One thought is that I drop the name Skallagrigg for my company. It is a difficult name to spell and pronounce (especially for Dutch) and although the story of Skallagrigg resonates in my core values, the book’s values are perhaps not the most important in my work.

I think it’s time to bring either a clear focus to my company site, choose a theme to write about (more essay style than blog), or switch to a more static representation. I’m thinking of using an URL with just my name (my company = just me).

I’d rather use this blog as my thinking space, than any other space. It is no coincidence that I challenged myself to post on a daily basis here, and not at skallagrigg.net. This is where my tribe can follow me (and support me). Only a few in my tribe speak Dutch, but they can all understand English. Maintaining a similar space in Dutch has proven to be unsatisfactory with too small audience.

I haven’t decided on anything and I’m very curious what you think of these ideas.

(about the number in the title)