Archive for July 2012

LinkedIn “InMaps”…. what does yours look like ?

July 12, 2012 General, Social Media No comments
My LinkedIn InMap

LinkedIn InMaps  interactive visual representations of your LinkedIn connections, based on the relationships between your connections. LinkedIn uses information about how people in your network are connected to you and each other to create your individual map. Groups like colleagues, people you went at school with, or friends are separated into colour-coded clusters, as people within these groups are also interconnected with each other. My colour-coded groups include P&P, Acuma, HP, Intechnica as well as Lloyds and HBOS.

Here’s a link to my map.
http://wp.me/p2ADxu-5f

People with more connections are represented by larger dots and hovering over the dots allows you to see the names of connected people. Clicking on those names shows you other people that they’re connected to visually. This is a great way to understand your network and reconnect with those people and groups that you’re losing touch with,

As well as being a useful tool, it can come up with some surprises….

Here’s my current map.

I couldn’t help thinking that it looks rather like a dog!

Moving old site to WordPress

July 9, 2012 Social Media, Technology No comments

My old web site has been evolving over the years.It started off as an SMF site (Simple Machines Forum). Initially this was fine because it allowed me to share snippets of Loadrunner code and other useful information with my friends and colleagues.

Eventually, I tired of the basic look and feel of this website so I added a CMS front-end based on Joomla.I found Joomla awkward to use and really fancied a blog.I created a WordPress blog on my website and really enjoyed editing content and found it very easy to use.

This got me thinking………
Why maintain three separate websites?

The simple answer for this was
“Because it’s easier than migrating the content on to a single site” .

But I found that this isn’t true.I found a couple of great plugins on the WordPress which allowed me to migrate the content of my existing WordPress blog as well as the Joomla site on to this new blog. I still haven’t managed to migrate my old forum and I know that lots of people linked to the content there. For the time being, I’ll leave it up and running, but if any reader finds out how to migrate that too, let me know.

In the meantime, I hope you enjoy the new look and feel of this website .
My “old forum” is still available at http://bish.co.uk/forum