It’s almost the end of June, and the last post I wrote was in May. Needless to say it’s been a whirlwind of a month, but as I head into month 3 of my 12 month leave, I figured I better get out an update.
Hi! My name is Adrian Liem. I’m an online strategist and web specialist located in Vancouver, BC. I’m currently on a leave of absence from my job at UBC. Here’s what I’m up to in the meantime:
It’s almost the end of June, and the last post I wrote was in May. Needless to say it’s been a whirlwind of a month, but as I head into month 3 of my 12 month leave, I figured I better get out an update.
Playspedia is an online community for creating and sharing animated sports plays and diagrams. This is a project I co-founded with my brother, and launched with the help of a skilled developer and equally talented designer.
In the short time that I’ve been on leave so far, there is an emotion creeping up that I wasn’t expecting: guilt.
I’m kicking off week three of my leave, and I think the reality is finally starting to sink in. Last week, I attended Northern Voice, a personal blogging and social media conference, where I ran into several friends and colleagues from UBC. This was the first time I had seen many of them since announcing I would be taking a year off work, and the encounters made me realize that one of the coolest things about this leave so far, has been running into people I know. What I like most? Nearly everyone I run into immediately smiles.
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This is a thought that has been mulling in the back of my mind for a while now. It first dated back to a time when I was involved in selecting a CMS platform for a friend’s project. As is often the case these days, two choices presented themselves: Drupal or WordPress. In the end, we opted to go with WordPress, but a thought lingered: what if there was a way to integrate the two?
I’ve started to let folks know about some new and exciting plans in my world: I’m taking some time off from my full-time job and embarking on a leave of absence a tiny leap.
I was reminded today of a saying I first heard in my days playing Ultimate Frisbee: “Ultimate doesn’t build character, it reveals it.” I believe the quote originally referenced “adversity”, but that first word is pretty interchangeable and the underlying message is the same.
When it comes to building a website that includes social media, you’ve likely heard of “3rd party integration”. The premise is quite simple: set up accounts in different channels, and blend these into your website. But what if you were to flip this around? What if we were to think of “1st party integration”?
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