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Please visit my uni blog - if you leave a comment I'll get better marks!

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threefeethighandrising · 21/05/2011 13:43

Nearly finished the 1st year of a Digital Media degree, yippee! It's been fun although hardgoing balancing college and DS, but definitely worth it!

I've got to submit a [[
itsuite.it.brighton.ac.uk/rb197/blog/?cat=1 blog for my "New Media" module]] . If I get readers / comments I'll get (slightly!) better marks.

So if any of you lovely people fancy dropping by my blog and leaving a comment you'd make me very happy Grin

TIA Smile

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IslaValargeone · 21/05/2011 13:51

I'm sorry, I'm somewhat confused. You get more marks because some else does the writing?
Where do I sign up for such a degree?

OvO · 21/05/2011 13:53

Link doesn't work.

threefeethighandrising · 21/05/2011 13:53

oops sorry I'll try again! itsuite.it.brighton.ac.uk/rb197/blog/?p=290

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threefeethighandrising · 21/05/2011 13:57

I don't directly get marks for you posting comments, no. But I do get marks for including a marketing plan in the report I submit with the blog. Comments on the site is a small measure of the success I have had with marketing the blog.

And it shows willing basically! Part of the point of this module is to get us blogging for real. Those who treat it purely as an exercise and don't actually show their blog to anyone will have missed the point I think.

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threefeethighandrising · 21/05/2011 13:58

If you think my degree sounds easy I invite you to sit my javascript programming exam next week! Grin

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threefeethighandrising · 21/05/2011 14:13

hopeful bump!

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PlentyOfPrimroses · 21/05/2011 14:18

What's your overall marketing plan?

threefeethighandrising · 21/05/2011 14:41

ha ha. Gonna make that up when I write the report Wink

If I'd had time to do this properly, then I would have done lots more marketing such as ... hmm ... marketing via twitter, writing those kind of "10 useful / amazing" whatevers which do the rounds on twitter.

My blog content is pretty geeky, so I would have signed up to some more geeky forums and introduced myself.

I would have posted on other related blogs (as you get to post your web address with your comments).

I would audit my site to check I'm doing things in a google-friendy way so as to appear in listings (I am for the most part doing this already, but I now I've missed a few things).

However I've been learning stuff like javascript and actionscript, and that's taken all my time and my blog marketing has suffered somewhat as a result!

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threefeethighandrising · 21/05/2011 14:46

The main point of this module isn't marketing by the way, it's to get an appreciation of new media. The marketing bit is a small part of the assignment.

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PlentyOfPrimroses · 21/05/2011 14:54

Sounds ok ... you might want to add keywords if the blogging software allows it and also make sure Google and other search engines can find your content by submitting your URL

Reciprocal links can be good - better than just leaving your URL in comments as lots of bloggers disable this feature. A working knowledge of google analytics will probably get you extra points too, even if it's too soon to have any useful data.

Sorry if you know all this already - just brainstorming.

If you're arty and are enjoying the coding side of things, you might like this toy

nickelbabe · 21/05/2011 14:57

I'll have a read - one comment for you here, though, before I start - you cannot really see your blog title - the background is too dark for black writing - could you change it to white so it's visible?

threefeethighandrising · 21/05/2011 15:02

No need to apologise, it's much appreciated, thanks Grin

Can't get Google Analytics to work on this unfortunately - neither the usual way or through the WordPress plugin. think it might be something to do with the college servers. (Even the wordpress standard stats thing won't work).

I'm going to have to find somewhere else to host it anyway, if I want to keep it though, I've maxed the limit of my data allowance on the college server already, and I'm only in the 1st year!

Thanks for the Processing link. They actually used that last semester as our introductory programming module. (The rest of the computing degrees did Java, but us Digital Media BA types are arty you understand Wink so they gave us Processing instead. Grin)

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threefeethighandrising · 21/05/2011 15:03

nicklebabe which title is black for you? (they're all blue / orange from here!)

Thanks for letting me know by the way, much appreciated!

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PaisleyLeaf · 21/05/2011 15:07

'Subversion' in black for me too.

nickelbabe · 21/05/2011 15:11

Subversion at the top of the page.
It goes grey when you hover on it.
in the blue header - the Subversion is hidden by the red blobs.

I've had a read - I enjoyed it.
I commented on the lego thing.
I wanted to comment on the kids' TV, but you've got no comment facility on that one :( Wink

nickelbabe · 21/05/2011 15:12

it is likely that the Uni have the analytics thing deactivated - just because it means that then students' work is confidential.

threefeethighandrising · 21/05/2011 15:13

Thanks people, I appreciate it Grin

"'Subversion' in black" that's a mystery! It's definitely orange for me!
Which browsers are you using out of interest?

I didn't realise comments were off for the kids TV, I'll put them on right now ...

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nickelbabe · 21/05/2011 15:14

I'm on Mozilla Firefox.

thanks Grin

PaisleyLeaf · 21/05/2011 15:18

Safari

threefeethighandrising · 21/05/2011 15:19

Wierd. Comments are on, according to the back end of the blog. but they're definitely not there. One to look into later tonight I think (doing a Flash assignment right now. They said it could be about anything. So I'm doing it on the cafe in the park I spend half my life hanging out in when not at college. Go with what you know, they said Grin Cake mmmmm)

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threefeethighandrising · 21/05/2011 15:20

Hold on, i'll just try one thing with the comments ...

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threefeethighandrising · 21/05/2011 15:23

Yay, got it, comments now open. (They were being closed after a certain amount of days).

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nickelbabe · 21/05/2011 15:30

I've commented again - can you edit my post to read "obviously" instead of
"obviosuly" please?
I never remember to proof-read before I hit post!
Blush

threefeethighandrising · 21/05/2011 15:33

Good question, I don't know ... I'll give it a go! ...

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MmeLindor. · 21/05/2011 15:33

Have commented. Good blog. I agree that the titles are difficult to read.

I am a big fan of Disqus, which is great for linking twitter/facebook/blog profiles.