The reception on the third birthday of this Blog was a well attended and interesting occasion as Lord Norton points out below. One discussion I had led me to think that a number of us (the Lords) would benefit from a half day on refining our blogging techniques. For example, I have never really understood RSS feeds and how they work and I have not yet mastered ‘linking’ to best advantage including use of Tweets and Facebook etc. The Information Department of the House and Hansard have done a great job in servicing this blog and offering advice and help when necessary but I think I have reached the stage where a half day might improve the service I offer here – so I shall make enquiries.
Meanwhile thank you for your thought and comments.
RSS feeds are useful in that once you’ve got them set up, you can have all your blog and news feeds collected in one place, rather than have to go and manually check each one individually. From the point of view of this blog, it’s already working and some of us collect posts and comments using RSS.
I see you’re up early, good to see you taking on board the advice from Wednesday evening!
My Lord, I feel the Silver Surfers that are the bloggers do an amirable job here. Each appears to have improved their knowledge of IT at least with WordPress and some HTML.
Please take the half-day and hopefully it’ll leave you wanting more, it certainly would not be enough possibly to even cover WordPress, Twitter and Facebook. The fields are continuously evolving, growing with each update but a reasonable knowledge of IT gives you the basics where a few minutes looking at an application will have you working it out.
I find users, young and old have one major hurdle they must overcome and that is fear. It really won’t blow up and you’re not going to destroy the internet. đŸ˜‰
Time to spend playing with something is a major factor in everyones lives, so take the time even if it is only half a day. You will learn a lot of useful information and be able to connect with others in a more informative way.
Keep up the good work, I feel it is more important than you realise. Well done.
Go for it;
but for me only conditionally upon making affordably accessible to us People not only the same ‘further-education’
but the much more expensive and democratic-citizenship-disabling technical-service for our home PCs and budget-priced laptops.
The government’s 6000 public computer centres around Britain, trickling along under the online http://www.myguide.gov.uk (free to the public, but under an already tattered flag) are up to neither that first need nor even to affordable-referral level for the second.
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