Falling face(book) first into social media

A wise man told me this week that I needed a google+ profile. I pulled a face but since he is not only wise but my boss I now have a google+ profile.

stripe-e now has google+, facebook, twitter and linkedin

I have no idea what to do with them all. I use facebook so I can just about cope with that. I am getting the hang of twitter, voyeuristically at least. LinkedIn is just an on-line CV so I'm on board with that. That just leaves google+ and I have no clue what to do with it, other than being credited as a contributor on the blog of the aforementioned wise man. 

However there is a silver lining to this, it has given me a kick up the proverbial to get the social buttons on stripe-e and I am quite pleased with them. Downloaded from GraphicsFuel and looking pretty awesome. It also forced my hand on the contact page issue as I now have an 'email' button sitting there looking cool and a new email account to go with it. So with the help of Steegle I now have a contact form on my website which sends emails to my new email address.

So ultimately - after the initial terror - the social media push has made me quite happy. I just have to start using them now!

Articulate yourself on the web with google drive

You can make a public link for your Articulate storyline project by using your google drive account. It is really quite simple...

1. Upload the output folder to your google drive.
2. Set the folder to 'public on the web'
3. Rename story.html to index.html
4. When you are in the folder copy the junk at the end of the web address

https://drive.google.com/?authuser=0#folders/0B21-w1uGFQjkS3RvRF9IOFhuckk

5. Then type the following into your address bar http://googledrive.com/host/  
6. Finally copy the junk from above into the address so it looks like this


              http://googledrive.com/host/0B21-w1uGFQjkS3RvRF9IOFhuckk


That link should then give you a link to your course that you can hyper link into your blog or website... much like this.