Psychic and Healer.
Light

Author Topic: Innovation (Shaping) & Management (Sustaining)  (Read 11271 times)

Offline Butterfly Lightning

  • Tadpole
  • *
  • Posts: 81
  • Karma: +0/-0
    • Amber Bow
Re: Amber Bow
« Reply #30 on: November 30, 2009, 01:44:56 AM »
Daniel - looks slick.
You should standardise font - you have a mix of serif and sans-serif. Better to stick to Arial.
One problem is that the name of the site, Amber Bow, is not prominent - leaves one wondering about whose place this is.

I suggest to mock up a Photoshop image for Amber Bow and shove it in the viewer's face and at top, so they'll never forget it. if you do want to be more stylish, at least don't hide it in white on a pale background - looks like you are unsure of yourself.

Thanks for feedback M,

Yep its kind of in transit, it is in an unsure state at the moment as the site I signed up with offer templates for your site. These aren't such a great range. Ideally I'd like to get a proper site done where someone can design it to match what I have in mind, and allow options like, add to cart.

I have produced a costings sheet format for pricing work and decided to just price up what I have. I plan to also do commissions & prints and actually expand the type of work I do as well.


Offline Michael

  • Administrator
  • High Plateau
  • *****
  • Posts: 1684
  • Karma: +0/-0
  • Fibre to the Soul!
Re: Innovation (Shaping) & Management (Sustaining)
« Reply #31 on: November 30, 2009, 06:10:01 AM »
God I feel sorry for you guys who have to labour beneath template'd offerings. But I do understand - and I just don't know what to suggest as obviously you are limited to their parameters.

Here is a site I did for a friend earlier this year - typical artist's site:
http://sandylockwood.com.au/

They now modify it themselves to keep it up to date. I did it in the old style - with tables - so they would be better able to do their own mods.
« Last Edit: November 30, 2009, 06:18:40 AM by Michael »

Offline Definitive Journey

  • Tributary
  • ***
  • Posts: 638
  • Karma: +0/-0
    • Las Vegas Massage Therapist Kris Kelley
Re: Innovation (Shaping) & Management (Sustaining)
« Reply #32 on: November 30, 2009, 03:42:45 PM »
God I feel sorry for you guys who have to labour beneath template'd offerings. But I do understand - and I just don't know what to suggest as obviously you are limited to their parameters.

Here is a site I did for a friend earlier this year - typical artist's site:
http://sandylockwood.com.au/

They now modify it themselves to keep it up to date. I did it in the old style - with tables - so they would be better able to do their own mods.


I like the site you designed.

Feel sorry for us?  I doubt it....Hehehe....

I sure don't.  We have our row to hoe...and do it however we do it.

I see it as a great learning opportunity.

Once I've learned 'the system,' I can then upload my own HTML and create a site 'outside the building blocks,' even with SBI's system.  Many do this.  I'm just a little slow on the uptake....

 8)

Peace....

"Discipline is, indeed, the supreme joy of feeling reverent awe; of watching, with your mouth open, whatever is behind those secret doors."

Offline Butterfly Lightning

  • Tadpole
  • *
  • Posts: 81
  • Karma: +0/-0
    • Amber Bow
Re: Innovation (Shaping) & Management (Sustaining)
« Reply #33 on: December 02, 2009, 01:01:07 PM »
Happy to concider any offer of website designing

Offline Michael

  • Administrator
  • High Plateau
  • *****
  • Posts: 1684
  • Karma: +0/-0
  • Fibre to the Soul!
Re: Innovation (Shaping) & Management (Sustaining)
« Reply #34 on: December 03, 2009, 05:56:20 AM »
I should point out that I don't normally do web design, because it really is a specialised field these days. It is all about fashions in style, and I don't keep up to date on fashions. My web design area is in the field of dynamic sites - database driven sites. That is ultra usability - all fancy boarders and slick images are not my area.

Not to say I don't have an opinion. I am not a fan of the 'modern' style of web site because it is too soulless for my tastes, but that very quality (albeit under a different term - cool) is exactly what is required these days to appeal to the new generations. I don't agree with the direction global society is going, and frankly I don't like it. But I do accept that is what is happening, and if you want to run with the pack, best you learn the current modes.

If you want a rule of thumb - make it as impersonal as you can, minimal yet slick, grey colours with a touch of green-blue barely visible. Make it look like no people exist to inhabit. No commitment, no reality.

But not for baby-ware or masseurs. Those are still in the human dimension, so they still like the friendly look - but not too much.

Offline ≈*≈

  • Sprout
  • **
  • Posts: 228
  • Karma: +0/-0
Re: Innovation (Shaping) & Management (Sustaining)
« Reply #35 on: December 03, 2009, 07:53:04 PM »
Hey Daniel,

Nice website ... I like your style. Sterile ... yet warm ;)

I was checking out your keywords. Most of them are very broad ranged ... low value/profitability. The only one I found that had some umph to it, was "sahaja yoga". You may want to change the specific keyword (first keyword) on that page to this.

Ang
"There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return."
- Dag Hammarskjold

Offline Butterfly Lightning

  • Tadpole
  • *
  • Posts: 81
  • Karma: +0/-0
    • Amber Bow
Re: Innovation (Shaping) & Management (Sustaining)
« Reply #36 on: December 04, 2009, 03:50:55 AM »
What if your organization or your client has done nothing?

What if they've just watched the last fourteen years go by? No real
website, no social media, no permission assets. What if now they're
ready and they ask your advice? And, by the way, they have no real
cash to spend...

Here's a list of my top ten things to consider doing:

- Use gmail to give every person in the organization that can read
English an email address.

- Use a free website creating tool or even Squidoo to build a page
about your company. Nothing fancy, but list your locations, your
people (with addresses) and make it clear you want to hear from
people.

- Start an email newsletter using Mad Mimi or Mail Chimp. Give the
responsibility for the newsletter's creation and performance to one
person and offer them a bonus if they exceed metrics in sign ups and
in reducing churn.

- Start a book group for your top executives and every person who
answers the phone, designs a product or interacts with customers. Read
a great online media book a week and discuss. It'll take you about a
year to catch up.

- Offer a small bonus to anyone in the company who starts and runs a
blog on any topic. Have them link to your company site, with an
explanation that while they work there, they don't speak for you.

- Have the president post her (real) email address in every invoice
and other communication the company sends out, asking people to write
to her with comments or questions.

- Start a newsletter for your vendors. Email them regular updates
about what you're doing, what's selling and what problems are going on
internally that they might be able to help you with.

- Do not approve any project that isn't run on Basecamp.

- Get a white board and put it in the break room. On it, have someone
update: how many people subscribe to the newsletter, how many people
visit the website, how many inbound requests come in by phone, how
long it takes customer service to answer an email and how often your
brand names are showing up on Twitter every day.

- Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff.
First you have to fail, then you can improve.

- Refuse to cede the work to consultants. You don't outsource your
drill press or your bookkeeping or your product design. If you're
going to catch up, you must (all of you) get good at this, and you
only accomplish that by doing it.

The problem is no longer budget. The problem is no longer access to tools.

The problem is the will to get good at it.

Seth Godin

Offline Butterfly Lightning

  • Tadpole
  • *
  • Posts: 81
  • Karma: +0/-0
    • Amber Bow
Re: Innovation (Shaping) & Management (Sustaining)
« Reply #37 on: December 04, 2009, 03:54:15 AM »
Quote from: ≈*≈ on December 03, 2009, 07:53:04 PM
Quote from: ≈*≈ on December 03, 2009, 07:53:04 PM
Hey Daniel,

Nice website ... I like your style. Sterile ... yet warm ;)

I was checking out your keywords. Most of them are very broad ranged ... low value/profitability. The only one I found that had some umph to it, was "sahaja yoga". You may want to change the specific keyword (first keyword) on that page to this.

Ang

Thanks Ang,

Its certainly not a finished product > more a kind of *well what have I got at the moment, ok here...

Offline Butterfly Lightning

  • Tadpole
  • *
  • Posts: 81
  • Karma: +0/-0
    • Amber Bow
Re: Innovation (Shaping) & Management (Sustaining)
« Reply #38 on: December 05, 2009, 01:16:49 PM »
I should point out that I don't normally do web design, because it really is a specialised field these days. It is all about fashions in style, and I don't keep up to date on fashions. My web design area is in the field of dynamic sites - database driven sites. That is ultra usability - all fancy boarders and slick images are not my area.

Not to say I don't have an opinion. I am not a fan of the 'modern' style of web site because it is too soulless for my tastes, but that very quality (albeit under a different term - cool) is exactly what is required these days to appeal to the new generations. I don't agree with the direction global society is going, and frankly I don't like it. But I do accept that is what is happening, and if you want to run with the pack, best you learn the current modes.

If you want a rule of thumb - make it as impersonal as you can, minimal yet slick, grey colours with a touch of green-blue barely visible. Make it look like no people exist to inhabit. No commitment, no reality.

But not for baby-ware or masseurs. Those are still in the human dimension, so they still like the friendly look - but not too much.

Nice, I like what you said about the minumal yet slick, grey or greeny-blue. The thing is I just have templates to chose from, mostly with pictures of people on which is really not what I want. So ignoring all the ones with food or people in there are just few left

>I've made a few adjustments, changed the template and corrected the scrappy font differing... although there is a section of stubborn text on one page that doesn't want to change. The only thing is, the 2 photos of people on the template...
« Last Edit: December 05, 2009, 02:23:03 PM by Butterfly Lightning »

Offline Butterfly Lightning

  • Tadpole
  • *
  • Posts: 81
  • Karma: +0/-0
    • Amber Bow
Re: Innovation (Shaping) & Management (Sustaining)
« Reply #39 on: December 05, 2009, 02:39:12 PM »
I've just realised that if I upgrade I can get RSS feed and e-shop/ add to cart things I think...

Offline ≈*≈

  • Sprout
  • **
  • Posts: 228
  • Karma: +0/-0
Re: Innovation (Shaping) & Management (Sustaining)
« Reply #40 on: December 09, 2009, 10:01:11 AM »
I've just realised that if I upgrade I can get RSS feed and e-shop/ add to cart things I think...

Just use pay pal for a cart, it's free. RSS feed was included in our set-up ... at SBI! , but shop around ... my experience with a la carte companies is that they're more expensive. Just like the restaurants ;)

A
"There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return."
- Dag Hammarskjold

Offline Butterfly Lightning

  • Tadpole
  • *
  • Posts: 81
  • Karma: +0/-0
    • Amber Bow
Re: Innovation (Shaping) & Management (Sustaining)
« Reply #41 on: April 25, 2010, 05:13:17 AM »
2 observed movements or occurrences

1st the energy gets stirred up, which dislodges it from where it was stuck & stagnant.
What I mean is an event, another person or the world creates a knock of some sort that stirs up the energy in our cocoon or personal sphere. This dislodges our constant or normal way of assembling ourselves and can stir the energy up and dislodge it. This usual assemblage is very often there from habit and makes our energy stagnant, like water at the bottom of a tank that never gets to flow into a stream.

Some of us interact with others and stir the energy up. Not from a fixed intent to be tricky or bothersome to others, but just as a natural cause of nature like the wind that blows through us.

2nd is that you, me, whoever has a choice to either let it filter back to where it was and start projecting the same reality, or actually redirect our energy & use it, give it a vehicle, aim it towards purposeful action.

What happens 99% of the time is that the event happens, we get offended and our emotions defend our normal status or surface fears of not wanting to change and we then revert instantly back to our normal assemblage.
What can happen in the 1%, if we use it is that we continue the power in a flow to redirect the energy that has become dislodged.

Sometimes it can happen the other way around too. Where we have a momentum with a good cycle of purposeful action but an event or clash with someone else’s energy sphere dislodges us and we revert back to an older assemblage where we are no longer creating that cycle of redirecting

I am doing 4 projects this year that relate to the 4 corners of my own medicine wheel.
Our personal medicine wheel is only ever placement of our personal power in alignment to the 4 core orientations outside our sphere that map from the earth. And they build onto that.

The 1st of these 4 projects is very almost ready to share and is in e-brochure form. These 4 are basically me approaching each of my 4 corners, one at a time, and releasing a dream scene into the world which is vibrating my connection to that point. It is an expression yes, but it is also an orientation.

When I get to the 4th book which will be about wind, I will be looking at topics that are similar to this focus here in the above post.

Offline Michael

  • Administrator
  • High Plateau
  • *****
  • Posts: 1684
  • Karma: +0/-0
  • Fibre to the Soul!
Re: Innovation (Shaping) & Management (Sustaining)
« Reply #42 on: April 26, 2010, 06:19:20 AM »
nifty analysis Butter Fly.

Offline Butterfly Lightning

  • Tadpole
  • *
  • Posts: 81
  • Karma: +0/-0
    • Amber Bow
Re: Innovation (Shaping) & Management (Sustaining)
« Reply #43 on: April 26, 2010, 11:41:29 AM »
nifty analysis Butter Fly.

Cheers M,

May I post the below >>> I am emailing a free e-brochure of my most recent work with the below template. Yes it is marketing as there are products one can buy but it is also a free gift. Anyone interested please let me know

Email reads as

-----     -----

Dear Friend,

Please find attached my project that I have been working on for a while.

Initially it is a set of 15 paintings. It is also a story, a book, a dream, a set of canvas prints, an e-brochure and catalogue of products, some hand-made small crafts and a set of connections to people. It is a gift & a catalogue or brochure. It is a gift because anyone can read it and look at all the images. It can be shared without any purchases taking place. Rather than linking to a familiar or unfamiliar website it is a project of its own with its own momentum.

Please feel free to share this gift of art, to enquire about any products or contact the creator of these works simply to give feedback

Please note: You’ll need the most up to date version of acrobat adobe reader so it goes to the images as you move cursor over the icons. To download this please go to:

http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/

Kind Regards
Daniel

Offline Butterfly Lightning

  • Tadpole
  • *
  • Posts: 81
  • Karma: +0/-0
    • Amber Bow
Re: Innovation (Shaping) & Management (Sustaining)
« Reply #44 on: May 31, 2010, 02:58:07 AM »
As a Stalker I am an amount of awareness that has incarnated into a
sphere containing it, and that sphere perceives.

This is the Abstract form...

Just like how a field of wheat is processed into bread we are cultivated as human awareness to provide our personal power with a form of usefullness.

As we meet each other and walk through each other we are allowed to use that distilled moment to share ourselves as a gift to the other. We know the glow of the Self and are looking for ways to share. If we hate the Self then we often look to cause trouble and make wars instead.

Like reeds of awareness within a sphere, swaying to the winds of power we exist and have been given an amoun of life. This awareness is alive and lives life according to the rules of organic beings.

I am a human male no different from the other human males on the planet.

I have 5 animal Totems that mark out my Sun-Body. This Sun-Body is a just me but also a group awareness that is shared and interacted with. It is connected as I fire arrows of awareness/ my self towards aspects of the creation that exist outside of my personal sphere.

The Hawk is the crown of the sun tents that governs my acts of stalking, stalking simply meaning how I handle the items of this current world. It means the same as hunting but includes more functions.
The Dog, Coyote, Fox and Wolf also mark out my 4 corners in regards to the sun. Whether this is something that has always been there for me or a thing I made up makes little difference.

We may shape our awareness by intending ourself and acting, thus pouring our energy into a thing which moves us. Our activities align things and cultivate a usefullness from our awareness. As we seek and stimulate interaction from each other we get to hear the story that the other is telling about their own self, about their own awareness as a body and a being and a human form. We are this, no doubt. But we can use any form we want in our story. the point is to give a vehicle to our awareness.

The tallons of the hawk grip onto the contractual aspect of anything I am engaged in, and its wings give flight to the opperational aspect of the projects I do.

The Hawk is the map and it changes depending on what is going on.

The hawk has 2 other forms, one is a Bow and one is an Arrow. These change places all the time between what is being fired from the bow and what remains as the actual bow itself.

What I actually do in the world as a job, as my art, as personal work, as development in myself or others is managed by this aspect of the Sun-Body.

As I hunt my world or 'version of the world' through acts and descriptions, I place things in an alignment with a governing force within me which I name 'Will'

Will as an element is not all about drive and pushing. Will can be soft and it is worth taking note of a) the will that moves the awareness within our sphere and b) the will that moves everything that exists outside our sphere

As the Sun exists outside our sphere up in the sky, so too does it exist within our personal sphere and we use it as it eveloves through us and cultivates our reeds of awareness. We are the field but we are also the Sun, like the Head-Gardener in charge of our cultivation.

What ever clothes, dressing, form, direction or construct we give to our Sun Body is part of our manifestation and embodiment according to our relationship with the material world. The Sun nourishes us and gives life to the wheat, to the reeds, to the fibres... Hopefully this description is not to abstract to be clearly seen in its meaning.

Being rooted in the abstract but unable to manage, handle, intend, direct and hunt means we do not have strong Stalking Awareness or have not been taught by a stalker to enable us to be.

Stalking means we are doing something about our knowledge. We are introspecting and transfixing the main gaze of our meditation on the core spirit we are. That connection makes a swirling of new shaping, a declaration of a battle between what we have been intended into and what internally we descover we want to be. It means we have taken responsibility as the field and as the Sun Chief that cultivates that field. The glow created in introspection is acted on. Flashy acts that bring no benevolence are rejected and we boldly start a whole new set of actions.