Documentation

As there is a lot of progress here, I'd like to adress my readers again to inform you about the latest news:

1. Layout
The first layout was nice, but not quite the way I wanted it to be. I now chose a different one, which is less colourful, but smoothly uses colors to reach the plain and coherent "look-and-feel": headlines held in red, links in blue, background white, text black.

2. Comments
You might have noticed that the original "leave-comment"-button doesn't appear in the bottom of the post when viewing the blog's main page. This is due to the implementation of third-party-scripts - a problem well known to blogger, but not yet fixed. The walk-around appears to be manually adding a link to the bottom of the post ("leave a comment"). Feel free to make use of this and contact me.

3. Recommendations
Since I started using Google-Reader in combination with my DA-News-Pipe on (almost) daily basis, I decided to make use of the "recommend article"-functionality and to add a gadget on the blog's sidebar ("Recommended articles"). Here you can now find noteworthy news and articles on topics related to development cooperation and my projects. I choose articles that might be useful if you are i.e. studying political science with focus on development cooperation and want introductions or to keep up to date (preparing your final exams?). Maybe you'll even like to subscribe to my recommendations?

4. Blogroll
One of the major features of blogging is networking. If you are familiar with this (if not, here's a short explaination), check out the newly implemented and growing "Blogroll".

5. Language-tags
Another important feature of blogging is "tagging", making it easier to search for and read through certain posts. As I provide information in both English and German (my mothertounge) language, I decided to add Language-Tags ("lang=en", "lang=de").

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6. Static Pages
One problem with "blogger" is the lack of what in wordpress calls "Pages": the possibility to link to static pages (like "About the blog", "Contact", etc.). But there are walk-arounds. Thanks to Blogger Buster, you now have easy access to important blog-posts from within the header.

Further adjustments will follow and be commented on when appropriate.

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Welcome...

...to wherever you are.

Cologne, Febuary 2009

"Yet another piece of digital waste on the internet?", you might ask.
"Not quite!", I should answer.

Though I am just starting to set this up, beginning with more or less personal info, this blog shall also serve the purpose of compiling project-work I implemented via the internet.

To tell you just a little bit about myself: in 2008, I graduated 'Master of Arts' at the University of Bonn, Germany after 7 years of studying Political Science, Philosophy and Modern History and have additionally attended lectures in Constitutional and International Law. My master thesis discussed the influence of non-governmental-organisations (NGO) on German development aid policy in the context of intercultural communication and target-group participation.
Since then I have been working as freelancer in adult education (communication, every-day-law) and have just recently supported 'Deutsche Welle-Academy' Team Asia with some research work (see My Projects).

Look around, more to come.

Sincerely,
s.did

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