Week 1

I'm a little late in posting my first learning entry.   It's taken me several goes at several sites to get this far. 

First stop was to check namechk.com to try to establish the same name across all sites.  In the past I have dabbled with several of these, which meant I had a presence on them.   My new name of kirstyatcurtin was available in all sites except those that everyone seems to have a problem with.   When I tried to establish a new Twitter account with my new name, but my original email address it caused problems that I have yet to overcome - it kept going back to my kirstyfest name.    I will continue to work on this.

So far I have Twitter and this blog vaguely under control - I think.  Here's the Twitter link:  https://twitter.com/#!/kirstyfest.   My YouTube videos are already linked to this blog (Boy, that was exhausting!)

Flicka will be my next challenge as I am an avid hobby photographer and would like to share the several good photos (of the many hundreds taken) of the surrounds I live in, Far North Queensland, which is a magnificent part of the country.  One photo is already on this site.

I, like others, was not going to study over the Christmas period, but this subject of particular interest.  The Feast of the Senses Festival that I manage runs in March (so I will take the next study period off).  It is a ten day celebration of the local produce of FNQ, lots of fun and lots and lots of hard work!  But I love it (there's a YouTube link here for the Festival).  I also need to engage seriously with social media and this year I am determined that Twitter and Facebook and a blog will all run together to work for the Festival.

So yes, I do have a YouTube channel (Kirstyfest) which I started last SP in NET102, so my remediation assignment is there as is the Festival video and shortly there will be a rock and roll one too!

Once I have mastered these five:  Twitter, Blog, Flickr, YouTube and Facebook I will check out some of the over 154 sites!!   WordPress is next.