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Applied Insight Website

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Finally, after much hacking and gnashing of teeth, I have pulled together my company’s website – www.appliedinsight.com.au.  There are still a few niggling issues but it is basically done.

Considering the great expense gone to with design (I did it myself, although the logo is compliments of the lovely Vanessa from Raspberry Creative), I am pretty happy with the results, and there are cloud provider services allow you to connect multiple clouds in your site as well.

The site is hosted at Yahoo, and I set up WordPress on a MySQL Database to host it, and hacked apart a free three-column theme for WordPress.  I exported most of the entries from this blog over to there as well.  I’ve integrated the site with Twitter so people know what I’m currently doing, and I’ve integrated photos using Flickr.  Grand total cost:  about $A14 a month.  Everything else is open source and tweaking on my part.  I haven’t gone pro with Flickr yet – we’ll see how that goes.

For posterity – here’s a screenshot:

Probably loses something from the widescreen but there you go.

Blogs, Wikis, & RSS

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As I think I’ve previously discussed in a post, yesterday I presented at the Blogs, Wikis, & RSS conference run by Key Forums in Sydney, at the Harbourside Hotel in North Sydney. The hotel was great, although the presentation room was a little cosy.  Still, that’s a good thing since your audience can’t run away and have a nap so easily.

I won’t pass judgment on my presentation, but the content of all the presenters that I saw was informative and stimulating.  The conference continues today but, alas and alack, I have had to return to Brisbane to do some client work this week. 

People who presented or that I met included Trevor Cook of Jackson Wells Morris, Hugh Martin the editor of News.com.au, Keren Flavell of omg.tv, Garry Putland of Education.AU (ironically, Garry stands out in this crowd by not having a blog), James Farmer of The Age and Edublogs.Org, Frank Arrigo of Microsoft (cool blogging integration tools with Flickr and Virtual Earth).  I also met with Des Walsh and Anne Bartlett-Bragg.

It’s all good, wish I could attend today as well, but c’est la vie.  Slides and speaker’s notes to follow.