Another incredibly early start.
I had some Buzz action to catch up with from Monday evening; Anna buggered off to South London for the rest of the week.
See ya!
I had a rarity of working in complete silence on Tuesday - all day from 7am through until my final shift at 11pm.
My productivity was all the better for it, even if my soul wasn’t.
A selection of plants were delivered through the letterbox (seriously) mid-morning. Anna often buys up all sorts of shit, and then doesn’t tell me about it.
Either that or I’ve got a secret admirer who is showering me with baby pepper plants?
I know chuff all about how to plant them. I lobbed them all in some mini-plant pots, added some water and then put them by the window.
Job’s a good ‘un.
Outside and it was bloody raining all day. Nice weather for baby peppers plants, not so for my swimming and running ambitions. I stayed indoors on the work front all day.
I switched attention after luncheon to the publisher I am working for throughout May. The website is built and signed off; today I set up all of the social accounts.
Back in the day and this would have taken me five minutes each across FB, Twitter, Instagram and Youtube.
But woh!
When did these platforms become so bloody fiddly for a newbie?
We use to judge the success of a new channel by the ease in which you set it up. A username is chosen, you upload a profile pic and then you create your first piece of content.
I spent half an hour alone just trying to configure the various Twitter checkboxes for when they are going to email me.
If I were coming to any of these channels now with absolutely no knowledge of the platform, then I would probably walk away after the first five minutes. The beautiful simplicity has been lost.
And so has the message, I fear.
I switched back to my scheduled afternoon work shifts, working on… Facebook.
I’ve not received any feedback on my lame attempt at report writing from yesterday.
No news is good news, right?
An email conversation pinged back and forth with NickT. I think that we have found some common ground on how to achieve things locally.
I hesitated to included the dreaded ‘hyperlocal’ word in a response; but it kinda just happened.
I did a little work on the SE17 school site early evening. The ICT team is increasingly sending out logins for various edtech tools for pupils and parents back at home. A secure system is needed.
I’m experimenting with OneLogin rolled out on the front end of the school site.
It’s not 100% full proof, but steps need to be taken to demonstrate to the tech companies that online licences are being taken seriously.
Yep.
Work continued. Until very late.
I managed to break away to catch the end of the West Ham match.
Football. Bloody hell, etc.