Working Through Frustration!

This was definitely me yesterday! Google+ is not the most user-friendly platform I have worked on. However, once I found the presentation documents I was off. This was easy to use as it is very similar to PowerPoint which I have lots of experience on.

The frustrating part of Google+ for me is how to communicate and share things with my team. Still not perfectly sure about it but I somehow managed to share the presentation with two of my three team members. That was the point I began, at last, to love Google+! Three of us working on our presentation all at the same time and communicating live via the message box was awesome!

I next turned to starting a blog. Following the publication of a book I wrote some years ago I wrote a blog for about 18 months so this is not new to me. However, I do feel I could gain from some help on the design front! I look at other blogs and wonder "How Do They Do That?" Point to self - must ask for help in this area.

To begin with I set up my blog on Live Journal which was very easy to use. Then I decided to switch to using the blog on Goggle+. I prefer this as it all links together and is easily accessed by my fellow students. It is also better as you can keep saving what you are writing as you go along, without publishing it. With Live Journal I lost a whole bunch of writing which sent me back into frustration mode again.

Using this blog has also proved quite motivational. Having communicated with my study team members that I had started my blog, I found the message had gone to others in the group. Still not sure why this is. Note to self - must sort this out! Anyway, I had some lovely supportive feedback from some of the group. Note to self - must check out some of their blogs and support them.

Also started did more research on my competitors web sites to see how they are using social media. Will leave my reflections on this for another day though.