Every so often I go through and clean up my web presence a bit. I know I don’t hit every place I’m online, but I try to at least clean up the things at my domain, Facebook, and maybe LinkedIn. It had been a while since I had taken the time to look at my CV site, and with all the talk about professional involvement at MPOW recently, I decided it was time to make sure it reflected what I’ve been up to. So here is what it looks like now:
I’m still using WordPress to run it, and the new theme is a modified version of Upstart Blogger’s Futurosity. I really like it. Whereas before I had several pages for each of the main categories which I would just edit each time I did something new, now I have a post for each individual item. This allows me to use categories to define the type of work and tags to define what the work was about. Now I can browse by type of work, when work was done, and what the work was about. Very cool when I’m trying to figure out what I’ve done instructionally in the last few years or what my projects dealing with emerging technology have been about. In all honesty, a whole blog for a CV is probably overkill, but the librarian geek in me really gets a kick out of the ability to navigate what I’ve done and what I’m doing by various metadata. 
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Hi Lauren,
Posted 07 Mar 2009 at 12:14 am ¶you have gone so far beyond me with the internet savy stuff, it is not even funny. But, good for you, I have no clue!!!! I hope you are well and you are still happily married, as I am sure you are! I would love to keep in touch, but I really don’t know how, perhaps you do.
Love Always,
Wendy Woolfolk Gast
Hey Wendy! It’s good to hear from you! I’ve left a note for you in Facebook… we should get together sometime!
Posted 07 Mar 2009 at 11:11 am ¶That is one nice CV. An interesting use of Wordpress.
Posted 07 Mar 2009 at 11:28 am ¶Thanks, Derik!
Posted 07 Mar 2009 at 11:39 am ¶Hi Lauren
Posted 07 Mar 2009 at 2:23 pm ¶I follow you on Twitter and saw your blog post link. I’ve got to put my own CV together, so this is a great template to follow. Do you mind if I copy your idea?
that’s stunning, Lauren! well done. lately I’ve been looking for ways to repurpose one of my domains into more of a lifetream and less of a blog and seeing your awesome CV site has given me all sorts of ideas. nice job
Posted 07 Mar 2009 at 3:17 pm ¶You could have a very high density of information on a page that way: feeding in Twitter, Flickr, delicious, etc, etc into small stacked columns.
Posted 07 Mar 2009 at 3:30 pm ¶Thanks Chaunacey & Amanda! Of course, Chaunacey… go for it! Amanda & Derik, I love the idea of using a format like that for a lifestream. Very cool, potentially very fun to look at, and more interesting than a static page. Good stuff!
Posted 09 Mar 2009 at 10:47 pm ¶Wow, Lauren, this is great, and very inspiring. Thanks.
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