Of the many varied jobs I've done in my life, quite a few of them have allowed me to exercise my "stickler-for-correct-grammar" gene. I've proofread academic journals, and I've taught English as a second language. I have emailed committee chair people to complain about a document that uses "it's" …
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New bloggers and new blogs on a sunny October day
One of my favourite ways to spend a Saturday, I have to admit, is running my one-day blogging course for UWA Extension. I know, it's not exactly cool to love working on the weekend but it is honestly just heaps of fun to meet a dozen or more bloggers-to-be and turn them into published bloggers by …
Using social media on your travels
I spent yesterday evening at the Scarborough Library here in Perth chatting with a bunch of travel-mad locals about how best to use social media on your travels. As usual at these kind of library talks, I get to meet a variety of people with varying levels of expertise in social media but this group …
Basic but essential Facebook: Checking your privacy settings
Whenever I'm working with a client on their computer, or I have students in a computer lab and we even vaguely mention Facebook, I'm very vigilant on teaching them one thing: how to check their Facebook privacy settings.Depending on when you set up your Facebook account, your privacy settings may or …
The “dip in” theory of social media
After asking me "how can I unfriend someone on Facebook and will they know?", the second-most common question I hear from clients and course participants is "How do you have time to keep up with social media?"I have a few answers, starting mostly with tapping my smartphone and suggesting they might …
Thanks Facebook: A school reunion made even more fun
Over the weekend, I attended my 20th high school reunion. (Yes, go on, do the calculations, I already know the answer: that makes me OLD!). Five years ago, I went to my first reunion, having been overseas when the ten-year reunion took place. There was a huge difference between these two events, and …