I was a white knuckle email-er. Deathly afraid of this unknown cyber space thing.

Yup - prior to 1997, I had nothing to do with computers.  I was a terrible typist, dyslexic queen of america and had no understanding of the internet.   That was all geek stuff. I can thank my ex for introducing me to computers, and the internet and the potential it would bring for my work. I had always known that I learned and processed things differently. I was challenged my whole life because of it but email and computers really helped me actually SEE this. I was 37 yrs old before I understood the depth of which my dyslexia hindered me.

What does this have to do with the SOBCon 08 commercial contest? 

The contest seemed really techy to me, so much so, that I wasn’t going to participate.  I felt in over my head.

Yet in my head all these ideas kept popping up.

Creatively I had to find a way to participate that was me.

Thus this post about the 4 collages that I did on Sunday.

Collaging for me is a very tactile, creative outlet.  It’s remarkably visual, pleasing, simple to create and always insightful. Plus the collages I made brought to life the ideas I had about what blogging has meant to me. 

I then decided that I needed  to add text to the collages. Originally I thought this scrapbooking software  could help me.  Turns out it was too complicated, plus the files were not easily duplicatable

Then Liz Strauss, the dear, suggested that I create a power point slide show with inserted text

(Oh yeah !!  I did that once! )  

She then suggested, as only Liz can,  oh just convert the power point to video using free software 

(thats a handy dandy thought! )

and sooooo I did!!  Is that techy of me or what?? 

Except when I uploaded my video to utterz, the images were really fuzzy and too small.

Drat. 

So I re- created larger images in power point – reconverted it to video and now the darn thing wouldn’t upload  at all – perhaps it’s too large ?

I even thought proudly and in such a resourceful way, that maybe I could upload it to Flickr.  I do that when my picture files are too big, but alas utterz wouldn’t nibble on that either. 

So I really do have a video entry to the Get My Message SOBCON08 Contest…you can view it here  

I even have some music to go with it, how to insert that of course is a whole different conundrum
 
Maybe I’ll win that nokia phone!! Of course if I did, I’d have to figure out how to use the darn thing.

where are the tech geeks when you need them flickr image credit

Karen Hanrahan ~ Wellness Educator/Nutritional Consultant/Blog Author
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