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What I'm involved in these days...
Formation SAWI: Spécialiste en médias sociaux et communautés en ligne.
Rédactrice en chef et auteur
Quote Me- "Time flies and the photos I’ve taken get left behind."
- "People always think getting dressed is about putting clothes on. It’s not. It’s a spell..."
- "I was outside, and the rain and the fog smelled nice. They smelled of hope, I think. They smelled..."
- "On apprend toujours mieux de ses propres erreurs que de celles des autres."
- "It’s like watching a train wreck and hanging around to see if there are going to be any..."
Tag Archives: Venting
Frustrations comptables: banques et logiciels, c’est pas encore ça!
[en]Frustrating and fruitless search for a system that will let me track my expenses and income, and reduce monkey-work by importing statements from my banks. (Postfinance and BCV, in case you’re tempted dangle in front of me all the great … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Technology
Tagged banque, bcv, compta, comptabilité, écritures, finances, macpay, paymaker, postfinance, rant, ux, Venting
16 Comments
Google Groups Pain in the Neck
[fr]Google Groups trouve qu’il n’est pas raisonnable de vouloir ajouter plus d’une dizaine de personnes à la fois à une newsletter nouvellement créée.[en]I’ve used Google Groups to set up a newsletter for Going Solo. Here it is, with added proof … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged customer, customer experience, filter, fixthis, flag, going solo, going solo newsletter, google, google groups, group, groups, mailing-list, mass e-mailing, newsletter, pain in the neck, problem, review, Reviews, spam, Technology, trigger, unhappy, unreasonable, Venting
16 Comments
Photography: Being the Model
[fr]Une chose qui m’énerve fréquemment, ce sont les médias qui désirent me faire photographier pour illustrer leur article, mais qui ne considèrent pas “normal” que le photographe me donne une copie des photos faites. C’est mon image, merde.[en]Branching off on … Continue reading
Posted in Connected Life, Photography
Tagged Citations, copyright, creative commons, internet, model, Online Culture, ownership, photography, Technology, Venting
28 Comments
Du lavage de linge sale en ligne
[en]Nearly two years ago, I did a piece for a paper magazine on blogging, Netizen. I still haven’t been paid, and I’m not the only one to have this kind of complaint towards the company Pointblog’s CEO, Christophe Ginisty. I … Continue reading
Posted in My work, Personal
Tagged astrolabe, blog, blogging, business, christophe ginisty, chryde, cyril fiévet, dénoncer, déontologie, embruns, éthique, gilles klein, justice, linge sale, netizen, pointblog, stephanie booth, Venting, Vie de la blogosphère
2 Comments
Opérations médiatiques: marre
[en]Sick and tired of being asked to do stuff for free particularly when it’s a media stunt. I rant about two recent situations where I’ve been contacted for “unpaid work” which is obviously going to benefit “the client” more than … Continue reading
Posted in Being the boss, My corner of the world
Tagged apems, argent, Blogger musings, bloguer, blogueur, Consulting, coup de gueule, événement, Events, freelance, indépendant, le temps, le temps des femmes, marketing, Media, médias, plates-bandes, professionnel, pub, publicité, suisse romande, tapis rouge, Venting
17 Comments
Faites des liens, ne demandez pas!
[en]Please don’t send e-mails asking if you can link to my site. Yes, you can. You can link to any site you want. The whole web is built upon the premise that anybody can create a link to any web … Continue reading
Posted in Connected Life
Tagged autorisation, Comment bloguer?, Culture, e-mail, hyperlien, hyperlink, hypertext, hypertexte, liens, linking, Online Culture, siteweb, Venting, web
28 Comments
Borders: Intentionally Misleading Marketing Ploy
[fr]Les étiquettes sur les livres que je viens d’acheter chez Borders, un grand libraire anglo-saxon, sont conçues de façon à induire en erreur l’acheteur. On comprend “achetez-en un, recevez-en un: moitié prix” alors qu’en fait c’est “achetez-en un, recevez-en un … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Travels
Tagged Books, borders, evilmarketing, fineprint, london, marketing, misleading, ploy, sale, sticker, Travels, Venting
22 Comments
Digital Crumble
Please Don’t Be Rude, coComment. I Loved You.
[fr]J’étais une inconditionnelle de la première heure de coComment. Je les ai même eus comme clients. Aujourd’hui j’ai le coeur lourd, car après le désastre de la version 2.0 “beta”, le redesign du site qui le laisse plus confus qu’avant, … Continue reading →