Renaming My Blog

I’ve been thinking of giving my expat blog its own space and name. I’ve been blogging here fairly exclusively about expat life and my travels, but the name of this blog “Single Stitch Studio” really doesn’t reflect that content at all. It would make more sense to change the name now for traffic and so I’m representing content accurately.

So I need your help. Below is a poll with a few suggested blog titles. Please vote and then comment on this post with your thoughts or suggestions. I have my own thoughts on all of these of course, but I don’t want to share those until you have the chance to vote.

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What will happen with Single Stitch Studio? For now of course I will still be doing all my expat blogging here until I get the new space set up. Single Stitch Studio will be reorganized as an online portfolio for my professional and creative self.

July Projects & Work Update

With all the posting I’ve done about vacationing, I thought it was high time to talk about what I’ve been doing project-wise.

I’m really pleased to note that I’ve started working on a real (paying) freelance project. I’m doing copyright research for a publishing company on a new edition of a textbook. Its actually pretty interesting, I’ve always found the complexities of copyright rules intriguing, and its good to be working on something that really exercises my brain and research skills.

The other paid work I was doing for a few weeks was “title proofing” for Demand Studios (an article creation site). They by all exclusive rights to your articles, which I wasn’t willing to give for $5, so I worked on their titles instead. Its not bad work (its related to applying taxonomies and SEO), but at the moment its dried up. Hopefully the titles will begin flowing again since I did earn enough the first month to pay for my student loans that month.

I’ve also been trying to build a website for a webcomic project my husband is working on. I’ve promised it done for his birthday at the beginning of September, so I’ve got a lot of work ahead of me. I finished up the design in PhotoShop and have set up a WordPress install on our own server space, but now I need to bring the pieces together.

Writing-wise, I’ve been working on copy for a secret project, research for a possible Crossroads project, and trying to update this blog. I’m getting the itch to try fiction again, but maybe I’ll wait until November when I have NaNoWriMo to push me. I’m trying to become more prolific so I can take on more writing projects and maybe grow that revenue stream.

SYNC3 Project Focus Group

Last Friday I participated in a Focus Group for a new project intended to bring together so-called “traditional” news resources with blog posts on similar topics to make blogs more accessible. I found it to be an interesting discussion, although to a degree i felt out of place as a non-news blogger. The editor of Crossroads Journal pointed me to a video of the focus group online. If you’re interested in you can watch it here. Also, check out the host, the European Journalism Centre.

Hopefully I don’t do anything too embarrassing.

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