Reading Clay Johnson’s book “The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption” opens the door to an awakening and energizing experience and I have already become an evangelist for the message and thoughtful suggestions he has written. The Information Diet is truly an inspired book, but don’t just take my affirmation for it, go and read it for yourself. Well wait a few …
Proud but humble, a Symphony of Transformation
“What’s one thing you’re proud of?” Today, yesterday or many years ago. What’s fascinating about this questions for me is how my ego reacts to it and with not much humbleness. My ego wants to choose what I’m most proud of with the added constraint that it be one of the most flashy, successful moment, especially through the lens of how the outside world …
Writing – Dare to Share
Today, I’m taking on the dare to share. I’m writing to utilize will power, build confidence and put ideas out into the world. It takes stepping out of my comfort zone of introspection and sharing thoughts and ideas that might otherwise just live written on paper organized in a desk drawer. First, here’s some current events contextual background information. I’m in the …
Research as a form of Present Experiential Practice
The title may sound abstract, so let’s simplify the topic to the activity at hand. Creative desires for better web design is drawing toward installing another plugin. This time, it’s Easing Slider thanks to this convincing review and comment about it being only 16kb and thus shouldn’t effect total page load time. Well let’s put it to practice and see if …
Natural Organization – Navigate Menus Intuitively Part 2
Setting up Menus under Appearance in the dashboard. I created 2 or 3 and test drove them in both the Top primary menu and in the secondary menu (which displays in the left sidebar). No final decisions as of yet on the most intuitive navigation of a hybrid environment. More testing aka practice, thought and mindfulness required. Humoring my imagination, …
Natural Organization – Navigate Menus Intuitively
Website menus’ natural function is to organize. For someone who has a natural talent for organization herself, it’s important to reflect on and plan menus, as a means to guide the user experience. So the task at hand is addressing that this website is neither blog format, not static website. Therefore, addressing what is a hybrid experience of information through …
Practice Patience – Getting acquainted with Plugins
As practice is the means by which to learn and encode new learning into the brain, the idea of regular posts is logically important. And, having the means to post via email will increase the probability of my ability to keep some sort of decent pacing. Today’s learning tool — the Jetpack Plugin for WordPress. I have installed Jetpack, and …