Menston and Wilberforce have kept me away; many apologies for the long absence. First of all I was busy night and day (literally) getting a much-needed completely new website to its Beta form for the charity (Wilberforce Trust) for which I work, so it could be viewed by all the 70 or so staff for their feedback by the time I return from annual leave in early September. I’ll take into account the feedback then it can go live, hopefully that month. It’s a WordPress.org site so a lot more work than these wonderful free ‘wordpress.com’ sites.
August 11, 2013
Menston village and other website have kept me absent
Posted by grumpytyke under Blogging, Bradford, Uncategorized, Wordpress, Yorkshire, Yorkshire villages | Tags: Blogging, Bradford, Menston, Menston village, menstonvillagewharfedale.com, Wilberforce Trust, Yorkshire |1 Comment
February 1, 2013
Blogging, Facebook and Twitter – personal and ‘business’
Posted by grumpytyke under Communications, Disability, Promotion, Uncategorized, Visual impairment, Wordpress | Tags: blind, blog magazines, Blogging, disability, Facebook, Huntington, magazine distribution, sight loss, Social media, Twitter, visual impairment, Wilberforce Trust, York |[4] Comments
I’ve been completely hooked by blogging but I’ve never felt the urge to create a Facebook page and, although I have a Twitter account, the only thing that is tweeted, automatically, is a new post here.
As far as Facebook is concerned, I have a strong aversion to it – born of my wife’s announcements like “?? says she’s sitting in ?? celebrity restaurant drinking her seventh vodka and ?? (celebrity chef) has just spoken to her” and then shows me a picture of said ?? obviously very drunk in said restaurant. Who cares? (more…)