Introducing myself to the Community

Mar 16, 2014

Hi everyone - I'm relatively new to the forum, as far as posting goes. I've been "lurking" for quite a while and working away in the background to produce some things for an e-Portfolio. I have a training background and am now working towards moving more into instructional design - freelancing. I've gotten to the point in my career where I really don't want to work in one place any more - I have too many creative ideas to be constrained like this!

This community is amazing and I am looking forward to contributing and continuing to learn from you all. If only there were more hours in my day!

I have recently released my newly hosted domain - The Knowledge Project which is where I blog, and my e-Portfolio which is a work in progress and hopefully something I can put forward when I start looking at freelance instructional design opportunities in the not-too-distant future I hope. A huge thank you to Jackie Van Nice who recently wrote a very motivating blog on how to get into the freelance design industry.

I invite you to visit my blog (sadly I haven't had much time to blog lately - but I'm hoping to change this, with several blogs almost ready for release!) and my e-Portfolio - I've put up some contributions related to the weekly challenges - albeit very late, but at least I've had a go and have learnt so much along the way.

Cheers

Dianne

13 Replies

Nick n/a

10 years ago03/17/14 at 12:13 am (UTC)

Welcome Dianne and look forward to your contributions in the E-Learning Heroes Community.

The world of freelancing seems a mixed one. This forum tends to focus more on developers than IDs but there are plenty of both.

Again a warm welcome and I'll be checkng out your blog 'The Knowledge Project'. I like your post about the use of blogging though.

Jane Maloney

10 years ago03/17/14 at 3:02 am (UTC)

Welcome to the site Dianne. I have had a look at your e-Portfolio and have to say I found it very inspiring!.

Looking forward to checking out your blog when I get home! (Can't access it at work)

Joshua Roberts

10 years ago03/17/14 at 3:25 am (UTC)

Haaaaay-oooo.

Hello Dianne, you'll be in good company here! Welcome aboard the forums.

Natalia Mueller

10 years ago03/18/14 at 11:16 am (UTC)

Hello Dianne! A warm welcome to you. I look forward to seeing you around the community

(Also known as The World's Best Community Eva)

Kristin Shantz

10 years ago03/18/14 at 2:18 pm (UTC)

Hi Dianne! What a great way to get started! Welcome and thanks for linking your sites. I'm looking forward to looking at your portfolio!

Daniel Brigham
Hero

10 years ago03/19/14 at 8:57 am (UTC)

Yes, welcome, Dianne. This is a place that the more you share, the more you learn.

Dianne Hope
Author

10 years ago03/19/14 at 1:41 pm (UTC)

Thanks everyone. I think you might be right Natalia - since I put up this post only 4 days ago I have had over 270 visitors to my e-Portfolio site. I thought I'd subscribe to some of the forums, but had no idea how active this was and what a diverse range of topics and issues you all discuss.

I'm looking forward to more learning and sharing!