May: What I've been learning

I posted last month about learning jQuery in order to create the cool little application you can see on The TaxPayers' Alliance Spending Plan page.

Since then there's also been and April Fools Quiz and a VAT Quiz, both with jQuery and both based on the Spending Plan code. I get a really happy feeling seeing my progress like that, which got me thinking about other things I should be learning and what I should be learning.

My role at work has changed so I've been learning about SEO and Social Media optimisation. I'm finally getting the hang of Twitter and YouTube I think. I want to get comfortable at it and then build up to a whole campaign, I'm looking forward to getting better and reading more about the subject so that I can feel that I really know what I'm doing.

At the I'm testing new strategies and then analysing the results to find the right questions I need to ask Google. I really enjoy learning through this method because rather than aimlessly reading as much information I can get my hands on and then applying it. For example, I realised that most people are only on Twitter for a short period of time and that I should really be reposting tweets. So I tried it, found which types of tweet do best when reposted and then asked Google for the answer to see if my findings matched up to others. It's a lot of fun and I feel like I'm progressing.

There's a lot of things I want to learn at the same time, lots of ways in which I'm lacking, so I'm finding it difficult to stick to one topic of study.

Last month I also posted my first post to JaK Wave entitled "Let's Travel Japan! The Ghibli Japan Tour" as part of a "Let's Travel Japan!" series which I was very excited about as I've been meaning to blog more about Japan and my trip, what I learnt etc.

To be honest it was difficult to write and although I put a lot of effort in and tried to promote it I didn't get any engagement, so it's been over a month and I've yet to post what I thought would be a follow up. I do still want to write it (it's almost done -- it just needs images adding) but I'm just not as excited as I was before!

This is a rambling post but I'm hoping it will kick-start regular posting again.

This seems to be a self improvement post, hopefully next time I post I'll be able to say that I've improved once again.