I will overhaul this website within the next 2-3 months if it’s the last thing I do. There will be new video, social media links, work updates, and a little blogging. I have avoided the kind of online navel-gazing that is required of a woman employed in digital media for far too long, now. Propriety, discretion and humility be damned! From here on out, no professional minutiae will go uncommitted to a web page, a FB post or a Tweet. I vow to spend no less than 17 hours a days staring at a glowing rectangle!

Okay. For serious now. I’m actually looking forward to an overhaul and some fresh branding. I’m self-teaching CSS3 and HTML5. Want to build a site from scratch using new skills. Or do I just want to customize a WP site? There’s really no functionality you can’t get out of WordPress and plug-ins, now. And frankly, I really dig WP We’ll see.

I know this is all terribly belated, but I hope that everyone had a Merry Christmas, a Happy Chanukah and a Fabulous New Year.

Also! After much consideration, I decided that self-employment is not for me…at least not at this time. I will continue to serve as webmaster for the clients I have, and I may take on a small project on a case-by-case basis. I’m running myself ragged and am spreading myself too thin. I know that working for a company would actually give me a better opportunity to focus and hone my skills while providing greater stability than what I can give myself at the time.

Happy Halloween!

Peter Bisanz, filmmaker and owner of Entropy Films, LLC, has asked me to edit several spots for Harvard’s Young Global Leaders. This will be a series of shorts addressing who this august body is and what they do. Hopefully these spots will get a chance to air at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

I am taking on an extra project at the City of Edina this month as they are going to be airing 16 hours of classic, (and public domain), horror films on their community channel. Halloween 16 on Edina 16! I will be playing Bogdana the Gypsy-Witch that introduces the event and movies therein. It’s my opportunity to pay homage to one of the most memorable contributions to the sketch comedy genre ever, “Monster Chiller Horror Theater.” Real scary, kids!

I also finished up a volunteer project for a pastor friend of mine. I customized a WordPress site for him because his old site was just that — old. Looked like something I created with MS Front Page back in the late 90s. He needed something more scalable and something a little more visually up-to-date. I wish I had a little more time to put into the design, but hey! Free is free. (Now if he can just keep this site updated…)

What else? Finally plugged a lot of copy into EdinAlarm as I got it, but I know the site isn’t done yet. (The prospect of producing training videos for clients still lingers in the air.)

Shot and produced, (I use that last term lightly), some videos for the MN Dept. of Human Services as they had an all day speaker event at the end of June which needed to get cut down and posted to the web for employee access.

Fixed computers! Yes…occasionally people will still accost me in the parking lot and demand that I fix their computer…even after I gently explain that I have not worked in IT for a short lifetime now.

Perhaps when we’ve formed a deeper relationship based on mutual trust and respect, kind internet users, then I will share snippets of my social life with you. (Hint: I’m a total square.) But until then, I bid you adieu until the next time I pop my head into the shop. Be well!