New iNCD Website
Doing some work for mum, re-thinking and mega simplifying her website. I also want to try and make it very simple for the Twitter generation. So far we created a great landing page video for introducing NCD.
Stand-up Comedy Course
So the weird thing is I have actually written and delivered a course on stand-up comedy for drag queens and I use stand up for when I am doing drag. So why am I doing a course on it? Well, this really was my opportunity to check for gaps in my knowledge. I figure if someone is well received on Udemy for delivering a course then it must have some good content and I can use that to add any little extras to my stand-up course.
Singing Course
So anyone that knows me. I sing... a lot. But my singing is mostly average. I find I often get moisture in the lungs, probably from being overweight and the impact this has on the heart. So I have to deal with a few issues. I hope to use this article to record my work as I go and keep me aware of whatever the last thing I was doing when I come back to the course. I find blogging helps me keep focused somehow and I like to be open with people about myself so I might as well publish the results.
Basic Websites for Family
Spent a few days setting up some basic websites for some family of mine. So while my mum's website suffers mostly under the hand of people who think they knew how to run a website changing and she desperately needs updating I'm avoiding the unsurmountable task of updating her NCD-UK website with no media to put on it.
Machu Picchu
Me and my best friend Charita are up for climbing Machu Picchu we have set our sights high and it's quite a lofty goal to go along the Incan trail. We have never done anything like it before. In the mean time we are looking at climbing in the UK starting with Box Hill on 22nd March 2020 and Blencathra on 3rd April 2020.
Dragged Around London: Christmas Charity Event
For the second year in a row, Dragged Around London has announced it's Christmas Charity event.
This year the Drag Queens of Dragged Around London are holding it Upstairs at the Ritzy Cinema, Brixton.
Dragged Around London is Family
Probably not one of the best pictures of us, but an indication of the effect a group of people can make working together yet encouraging each others diversity. Together we brought attention to the Outside Project and raised awareness of them and frankly we will never stop doing that so long as they are continually supporting the community.
Dragged Around London Ticket system
So as you may have gathered Dragged Around London is a company that I helped form, of which, I own half. It has lots of potential to put on the books and we hope to have more and more tours and events coming up.
Piano
Also in the new year, I took up piano. I was able to race through my first grade 1 sight reading book from years ago with relative ease, but the more advanced exercising in the grade 2 sight reading book gave me trouble. I'm much further behind where I was as a 16-year-old kid, but it's clearly like riding a bike stuff keeps coming back to me like I already know it. Even things I found difficult as a kid are easier now.
Dragged Around London
So I did drag what seems like a long time ago... well more came of it than I ever planned. I am now the proud owner of Dragged Around London. A company that provides drag-queen-lead tours of London. Business is picking up faster than I expected and it's hard to keep it as a part-time project in my spare time. This could be big, but I doubt it would be lucrative.
Drag Queen in the making
So we have been watching too much Ru Paul's drag race and my ex partner decided to come up with a birthday idea that we dress up as drag queens and do lip syncing. Well if you know me, you would know I don't lip sync; I sing!
E-commerce venture
A new small shop in Glastonbury is looking to get online with E-commerce capability and I'm helping them. I'm very happy to use WordPress to give them access to their own Website to write what they like on the pages of their website and I'm going to use OSCommerce to provide the framework for the online shop.
Yale Old Testament course
I am currently working through an incredible course published online by Yale University. It appears to be mostly the efforts of Christine Hayes who demonstrates a vast understanding of the culture within which our western religions grew up and matured. She balances many different views concerning the origins of biblical texts and presents views that many religious zealots avoid. These views often seem potentially heretic or deviating from standardized Judaism and Christianity but they are views based more on archaeological discovery than most other forms of religious doctrine.
iNCD website
iNCD and NCD form a unique company in which my mum is on the board, so I am honoured to have the opportunity to work with them and humbled by their acceptance of my advice. I would not have had the opportunity to work in such a leading role on the marketing strategy of this company, if it wasn't for my mum noticing my extensive knowledge of digital products and their use in the marketing process.