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A tour of my #realworldhomeoffice

In a world of picture-perfect Instagram, I thought it would be a refreshing change to just open the door of my home office, and show you around.

I haven’t tidied up. I haven’t moved anything around. This is how my home office is on a day-to-day basis.

What’s yours like? Perhaps use the #realworldhomeoffice hashtag if you’d like to share?

Happy to answer any questions about equipment or setup!


This post is day six of my #100DaysToOffload challenge. Want to get involved? Find out more at 100daystooffload.com

5 ways to use NFC-enabled business cards

Bryan Mathers and I like to mess about with new technology. So when we saw MOO.com launch NFC-enabled business cards we thought we needed some of that action.

They arrived, with some great designs from Bryan, earlier this week. We put together this quick video when at City & Guilds HQ in London yesterday:

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We’ve got some ideas around issuing Open Badges via NFC prompted by this technological development and Tim Riches efforts at MozFest last year.

More soon!

HOWTO: use GitHub Pages to host a bootstrap-themed website

Last week I mentioned in a blog post and my weekly newsletter the pre-launch website of my new (part-time) consultancy Dynamic Skillset. I had an enquiry as to how the site put together, so I put together this screencast:

The great thing about being shown how to do something via video is that, if you get stuck, you can pause, rewind and watch parts again. In this one, I go through the process of downloading a responsive website theme and hosting it for free using GitHub Pages.

Remember, the way to increase your digital and web literacies is to tinker about and try new things. You can’t break anything here and all you have to lose is your GitHub virginity. 😉

PS If you’re interested in using GitHub to ‘fork’ (i.e. remix) someone else’s repository, you may find this video playlist helpful.

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