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Greg Johnson – Personal Update 201403

by Greg Johnson, posted in news

Personal Update 201403 | 31 March 2014 | Monday

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Greetings,

If we’re not already connected on Facebook, please visit my new Facebook page and click Like.

I was able to do quite a bit of writing this past month. Mostly my posts have been on the Iowa City Technology Services website. See under Recent Posts on that site. I’ve also posted some content to the ResourcesForLife.com website. You can see those items listed on the main page.

Work is going well. I have a lot to report, but I’ll wait until the current projects are completed before announcing them.

Many thanks to all of you who keep in touch and provide support for the work I do.

~ Greg

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Origins. For those of you who are new to these monthly personal updates, they began as a desire to share from my personal life about topics of lifeways, health, career, finances, relationships, effective living, and activism. This is based on the life map presented on the Resources For Life website.

Greg Johnson – Personal Update 201402

by Greg Johnson, posted in news

Personal Update 201402 | 28 February 2014 | Friday

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Greetings,

If we’re not already connected on Facebook, please visit my new Facebook page and click Like.

On January 29, I launched my first personal website, AboutGregJohnson.com. It’snice to have a centralized online hub for my life.

During the month of February, I worked on tweaking the site, and added a few articles. It’s been nice to have a centralized online hub for my life. I’ve started posting a daily message on the home page to let people know my availability.

In addition to improving my personal site, I updated many of my other partner sites with the new theme design. Mostly this involved developing a top page graphic header and moving some of the page widgets around.

This past month I’ve been donating time to local non-profit organizations as a website consultant, while also ramping up my various business ventures, so things have been busy on all fronts. I’ll report more next month.

Many thanks to all of you who keep in touch and provide support for the work I do.

~ Greg

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Origins. For those of you who are new to these monthly personal updates, they began as a desire to share from my personal life about topics of lifeways, health, career, finances, relationships, effective living, and activism. This is based on the life map presented on the Resources For Life website.

SuperShrinkMe.com Wellness and Weight Loss Website

by Greg Johnson, posted in articles, news

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I recently remodeled my SuperShrinkMe.com Wellness and Weight Loss website.

I’ve not been as active with the weight loss challenge in recent months, but am returning to the program this month.

To follow along, you can subscribe on the website or Like the Super Shrink Me Facebook page.

I’ll be sharing my approach to wellness and weight loss along with articles about cooking, food preparation, exercise, and new health tracking technologies. It’s everything I’ve learned about wellness and weight loss over about 30 years.

~ Greg

What’s Going on Today…

by Greg Johnson, posted in articles, news

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Summary

Starting today, I’m going to try having a brief daily update and announcements area on my website. The current title is “Today” and it’s a block of text in the upper right of the page (or just below the home page for people on mobile phones). So, anyone from anywhere can check my website to see what my availability is to get an idea of when I might be available.

Further Reading

In the past, I would update my outgoing phone message daily with news about my availability on any given day.

Many people found this helpful because it would give them some idea of when I might be returning their phone call.  People could know if I was going to be in a workshop all day or in meetings, and unable to return calls until later in the day.

The ability to set an automated “Out of Office” email reply is a similar idea. People writing by email will know if you’re away from the office. This could be used as a vacation message, or just as an immediate “Thanks for writing” reply that might offer links and information the person may have been inquiring about.

Today, with so many methods of communication being used, such as text SMS, Facebook, LinkedIn, phone messages, and emails to multiple accounts, there’s no easy centralized way to let people know your availability.

So, posting a message on my website seems like a simple centralized way to accomplish this.

Greg Johnson – Personal Update 201401

by Greg Johnson, posted in news

Personal Update 201401 | 31 January 2014 | Friday

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Greetings,

If we’re not already connected on Facebook, please visit my new Facebook page and click Like.

It’s been more than 15 years since I launched the ResourcesForLife.com website. During that time, I’ve used the site as a home for many organizations and initiatives. It’s also been my personal home on the Internet.

For about 12 years, the Small House Society grew and flourished on the RFL website – while using Yahoo Groups as a platform for community building, collaboration, and online discussion. Eventually it was clear that a free-standing website would better serve the small house moment. So, this summer I launched SmallHouseSociety.net and moved much of the SHS content to that site.

Over the past few years, I’ve setup independent websites for my other interests including photography, language learning, social justice, music, and consumer advocacy, as well as my consulting work in computer support, data recovery, and technology services.

This month I finally launched my own personal website, AboutGregJohnson.com.

Like other people, I have content and profile pages on and various websites and social networks. Those sites have their own focus, and are limited in how you can organize and present information. So, I created this new website as a single centralized hub for connecting to everything in my online and offline life.

Next month I’ll return to sharing about various area of my life.

Many thanks to all of you who keep in touch and provide support for the work I do.

~ Greg

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Origins. For those of you who are new to these monthly personal updates, they began as a desire to share from my personal life about topics of faith, health, career, finances, relationships, effective living, and activism. This is based on the life map presented on the Resources For Life website.