Just wanted to take a minute to congratulate Senator Barack Obama, who will now rightfully be called President Barack Obama. He instilled hope in our hearts and we have now been given a chance to make this country better.
Best of luck to our new President and the country as a whole.
Just wanted to let you guys know, this blog will be transferring domains over to mdolon.com and my portfolio site will be residing here. Why you ask? I’ve found MONFX to be much more brandable and still need to keep up with my contract work to pay the bills.
The change should be taking place within the next couple of days but just be sure to update your bookmarks to mdolon.com instead of this site if you’re looking for the blog.
Currently I’m still in the developmental stage for 2 of the 3 sites, however one of them is nearly ready. I have collected 16 or so of the 21 needed articles for the inaugural issue. Hopefully I can get this thing up by the end of October, although it’s going to take some serious work.
The first publication, entitled EverydayDesi, is an online magazine targeted towards South Asians in the United States and UK. Like I mentioned, we’re still in need of a few articles for the first issue, so if you are interested in contributing, please contact contribute [at] everydaydesi [dot] com. I’ve had tremendous fun so far creating a magazine-style layout and readying the backend, however getting contributors has been a little more tedious.
If you have any experience at all with creating an online publication using content from multiple authors, I’d love to hear your input on the subject.
My partner Mike and I somewhat officially launched UNCForum.com yesterday. By launch I mean creating an invite on Facebook and sending it out to every single one of our Facebook friends (I had 1000+ myself, plus my partners). So far people are slowly trickling onto the site and we’re seeing some growth, but I think our real advertising campaign begins tomorrow at UNC’s Fall Fest.
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Right now I’m working on several different projects all at once so I thought I’d share a few of these ventures with you all. They’ve been keeping me busy for most of the day and I am slowly learning to better manage my time in order to effectively work on them all. So, in no particular order, I am currently working on:
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