Communities’ Communication through Technology
After my fixer upper I decided that I enjoyed working with roommates, so we expanded our business to include a larger house with two houses on the property in a higher-rent area of Redmond, WA.
Creating a community includes weekly yoga, daily or twice-daily dishes, garbage and chore coordinating, landscaping and paying the utility bills. As leader and landlord of the house I coordinate all of these things. The house is huge and houses 10 roommates with 4 roommates in the adjoining house on the same property.
I enjoy the teamwork, community building and socialization of living in a share household.
My most recent project is a Joomla CMS site with custom templates, RSS feeds, blogs, membership only access, paid-memberships, e-commerce/store, and photo galleries. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity for such a steep learning curve and learning something new every day. I work with a great team of coders, photographers, models, writers and graphic designers.
During my employment with Olympic College I made flyers for all sorts of different groups working with the Student Government, Athletics, Student Programs, Veterans, and all the different clubs sponsored by the Multicultural Services, including Break-dancing (Rock-C), Polynesian dance, and Black Student Union. In each individual club I gathered materials from the club members or leaders and always attempted to incorporated a skill among them such as photography or drawing. Almost every club had something to contribute and they felt proud to have a piece of their own work published to represent themselves.
Event attendance heavily relies on marketing, such as advertisements, posters, flyers, sidewalk chalks, handouts, and other very visual printed materials.
The diversity of Olympic College taught me to change styles and pick up expectations and ideas from many different types of people through the Multicultural clubs to the Student Government flyers, I did just about everything.