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Commemorative Websites – Remembering 4503 Perkins EC, AIF

April 17, 2012 By Chris Mundy Leave a Comment

A couple of years ago I embarked on a personal project of developing a commemorative website. The site would be dedicated to remembering my great Uncle who lost his life in the First World War. The project consumed a little more time than I expected.

It was the proverbial “itch that needed to be scratched”. To me personally, there were three distinct motives for creating the website:

  1. My family had all the knowledge of the story, we had his war medals, to my knowledge, none of the other relatives knew the story as intimately as I do.
  2. If done properly, other people could benefit from the story. They could participate with us in locating the missing medallion and scroll, they could start their own research into their own family’s military history.
  3. If it opened some doors for more opportunities for assisting people and work, well and good.

The story of ECPerkins 4503 came online officially in April 2012. The timing worked out to coincide with the remembrance of ANZAC day, the 25th April 1915 an important day in Australia’s and New Zealand’s military history.

What’s so unique about ecperkins.com.au?

The original research was done in the early 90’s where I had to go the Australia War Memorial and the National Archives of Australia and research their collections manually. However, now, the majority of the information is available online.

When I compiled ecperkins.com.au all the original information and resources had been digitised and made available online making access to information more dynamic and usable for a website. It would make the online experience enriching to reader. To me it was an opportunity waiting to happen.

As an example, here are some of the things I was able to do, to bring the story alive on the website:

  • I found pictures around the time and place to most the events that occurred, such as, enlistment, the vessels that EC Perkins travelled on, the areas where he served.
  • Combine that with our own family’s photographs and research
  • Find the names and locations of the friends he most probably enlisted with
  • Find correspondence between my Great Great Grandparents and the Department of Defence
  • Find newspaper clippings remembering his life and service.

To further the interest, I have been able to hook up with some very special people who have provided information, photographs, and organisations that have granted me reuse of the information on the site.

People have been ever so helpful.

I hope you enjoy the site and story as I have bringing it together.

Visit ecperkins.com.au here.

Wordcamp Goldcoast 2011 – Chris’ Takeways

November 7, 2011 By Chris Mundy 2 Comments

WordCamp Gold Coast 2011(#wcgold) was a blast. I’ve listed my takeaways below on this page. After dropping off Phil Hall from halfofmylife.com, I managed to enjoy a meal at my aunt and uncle’s place at Tweed Heads. A quick hi and bye then off to the airport.

Image of the WordCamp Gold Coast 2011I arrived at the airport to what seems, the scene of the Australian Federal Police dealing with a guy who had one to many drinks. Obviously he didn’t get the memo,drinking before a flight will get you another nights accommodation you didn’t want! The Feds were really great, the guy seemed to take it pretty well.

The flight was packed, the plane arrived 20 minutes early in Canberra.  When I went to pick up the car at Airport car park, I had fight with the parking meter, $58 for a couple of days, looks good, then it wouldn’t accept my Debit Card, bummer. Across to the next machine, put the parking voucher in, cha-ching $69 dollars; that really sucks, no one to argue with at 11.50pm about the upsizing of $11 in 10 seconds. It accepted my payment, not happy.

Home in time to watch Casey Stoner win the Valencia Grand Prix, a good night’s sleep and the opportunity to think about the weekend.

Chris’ takeaways from WordCamp Gold Coast 2011:

  • Evernoteis a fantastic tool for documenting conferences
  • Kate Swaffer, dementia sufferer set the scene for conference with commitment to blogging using WordPress
  • Kate’s motto’s, “live with urgency before the emergency”, use your blog to share your life experience, use social to share.
  • Meeting Des Walsh (@deswalsh) and learning a few tips using Twitter, thanks Des, the world needs more young blokes like you.
  • Alan Harris from Network Dynamics’ and his insight into hosting WordPress in Australia with wphosting.com.au
  • John Ford’s talk about Automattic, the supporters of WordPress and working for such a great company
  • Learning the correct way to spell WordPress (with a capital “P”) thanks John Ford
  • Learning from Dan Milward, the term “Social Apponomics” and Googling it as suggested.
  • Stew Heckenbergs‘ quote on freelancing, “My timetable controls my work, my work doesn’t control my timetable”
  • Affirming my use of StudioPress Themes for WordPress design by Dee Teal
  • “If your users don’t feel ANYTHING, They wont even remember you.” Be exceptional or bad! John O’Nolan’s talk.
  • “Qualifying potential clients”, Troy Dean’s talk on running a small web development business. Thanks Troy, the talk affirmed a lot of what we’re doing.  Check out  Video User Manuals plugin here!
  • Running an on-line book club, good stuff and great work  – Timothy Ferguson
  • WordPress and Government – Stephen Cronin’s talk; mate, right on the money, I know the space too well
  • BuddyPress – Bronson Quick;  another great talk, I’ve done one site and it was valuable seeing all the new stuff
  • All the other fantastic people I met there, thanks for the opportunity of meeting.
Thanks to organisers,
 @LachlanJ, @bronsonquick, @thenbrent, and @dd32
Now, when’s the next WordCamp?

 

 

 

 

WordCamp Goldcoast 2011 – Mixing with the greats

November 5, 2011 By Chris Mundy Leave a Comment

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I’m at WordCamp Goldcoast 2011. WordCamp is where people interested in WordPress get together for a couple of days, listen to top speakers, learn a thing or two and meet a bunch of new people. So you ask, what’s WordPress? It’s the platform for building great websites.

Our introduction to WordPress was in 2006 and from there it’s been the tool of choice for developing websites, here’s a few reasons:

  • Easy to use
  • Well designed
  • You get a result quickly
  • It’s free
  • It has a great community supporting it.
Check out some of the sites we’ve developed over on our portfolio page

The last point is most probably one of the most outstanding things about WordPress, the great community!

Today’s first talk was from Kate Swaffer, well-educated, a loving woman sharing her experience as a Dementia sufferer . WordPress is vital as a tool to help her stay connected with life, family and friends. She can reflect every couple days on what she did and it allows “her to retrace her steps.”

She sums up life based on this quote . ‘live with urgency, before the emergency’ (Robyn Moore, 2011)

Throughout the day, there have been lots of great talks and information to help in using WordPress.

The last guy was John O’Nolan an Interactive designer  John can be found here at his site.

John talked about the  impact of emotions in design.

A couple of key thoughts from John were….

  • “Design = The soil we are growing things on”
  • “Everything is an experience”
  • “Take Care of People”
  • “There is only one boss. The customer!”
That’s day one.
Chris

 

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