{"id":2905,"date":"2012-12-12T21:46:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T21:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/?p=2905"},"modified":"2013-04-14T09:54:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T09:54:03","slug":"parka-hunt-the-search-is-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/archives\/2905","title":{"rendered":"Parka Hunt: The search is on!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m spending today and tomorrow in a training session by facilitators from the Geneva Communications Network<\/a> on using social media for work<\/a>. Yes, if you can believe it – the communications channels we use nowadays and on a daily basis is something still foreign in how it can be used in professional\/work environments. Today’s session was relatively straightforward with introductions into the benefits and challenges of social media, the different platforms and some hands-on work.<\/p>\n

People say the “blog” is dead. But, today’s session really highlighted that blogs are still relevant (WordPress<\/a> alone has almost 60 million blogs probably being read by millions more!). Not only are they flexible in accommodating your writing, creativity and giving you the ability to customize a website the way you want, but blogging platforms also provide an easy way to learn how to post and integrate things online – if you know how to blog, you’ll probably find Facebook, Twitter and other online platforms a lot easier to use.<\/p>\n

Anyway, one of the assignments was to create our own blog. You’d think that since blogging has been around even before Facebook and other social media platforms, a lot of people would have had some experience with them. But, out of the 20-ish people sitting in the room, no one except maybe one or two people had a blog. I decided to create a test blog based on my recent search (i.e. obsession) for a winter jacket. I called it Parka Hunt<\/a>. While it was more a joke to do it for the workshop, I realized why shouldn’t I actually write about my hunt, for real?<\/p>\n

So here it is… I’ve copied the posts here on my search for a parka – I hope to have more soon!<\/p>\n

Why the hunt?<\/h2>\n

One of the most important things for the winter is a good coat\/jacket\/parka. Yeah, there’s a benefit to dressing in “layers”, but then again, it’s a bit of a pain in the a$$ to have to put on or take-off these layers. How many is ever enough? Wouldn’t it be better to just have one jacket that keeps me warm without going through the process of dressing like a hermit?<\/p>\n

So this is my attempt to capture my hunt for a suitable winter jacket.<\/p>\n

My motivation comes from this video:<\/p>\n