Create New Alert Button in SharePoint 2013

How to create a New Alert Button for Users on a SharePoint 2013 Page

1. Open the 'New Alert' Window on the list or library you want people to subscribe to.
2. Right click anywhere on it and click "View Source".
3. Look for the address after href="http<bla bla bla" Make sure it has 'subnew.aspx?
4. Copy from http:// to ".aspx"
5. Add fun image into your page (Alert Me or Subscribe) and insert the link copied above as the address.
6. Test.

Trying to reduce the use of distribution lists and such. Much easier for users to choose when and how they get notifications from the site.

Thanks,
Dee

Spud the Pop Top Caravan

It was an instant decision, we brought a 1970s pop top caravan or tent trailer to some of you. We love the idea of a Tiny House but we wanted to create something straight away, so we brought Spud.

The photos shows the development of Spud for 2 months before we camped in it 2 weeks solid over the summer break.

Before Photos.. Spud was musty, dull, and leaky but had awesome potential.

Started with a clean slate and demolished every internal item.

 First step was painting over the vomit coloured roof. 

The grand plan...

 The cat decided curtains were a nice place to chill.

Photo shoot!

Taking it camping at Waipatiki Beach

 Taking it camping at Mangakino

Touring around Bay of Plenty and Coromandel NZ. We forgot to take pictures! So here is what we got up to instead. 

 Waihi Setup

Trumpets at Hot Water Beach, Coromandel New Zealand

So there we are. Spuds life in pictures.

 Kiwi Dee, over n out!

The Noah: An Unexpected Journey

1. Noah Baggins (Toyota Townace) lives a simple life with his fellow vans in the Masterton shire, until the wizardess Dee (@1kiwidee) arrives and convinces him to join a couple of geeks on a quest to travel the kingdom of Middle-Earth. The journey takes Noah on a path through treacherous lands swarming with orcs, goblins and other dangers, not the least of which is an encounter with Gollum (Anonymous) and a simple gold steering wheel-ring that is tied to the fate of Middle Earth in ways Noah cannot even fathom.

   
   

   Release date: 1996 (New Zealand)

   Director: Peter Jackson

   Running time: 338,000 KM, Plumber van four 13 years

   Film series: The Hobbit

   Featured song: Assorted Ukulele Tunes by @Tinker_HQ

   
   

   This is Noah, our 2015 camper van project. It's spud (our '14 Pop top camper project) with a motor! #vanlife #campervan #newzealand

   A photo posted by 1kiwidee (@1kiwidee) on Jul 17, 2015 at 9:57pm PDT

A Lazy UVP

I've come across the lazy Unique Value Proposition (UVP) which is quite cool to try wrangle your business idea into one sentence. See the below;

<idea name>    is the    <category name>   that provides   <rational benefit>      and      <emotional benefit>     for       <customer segment>       with      <specific problem>.

For example:

1. Piggybump is the mobile app that provides a money management tool and fun platform for children who has heaps of pocket money and no way to track it!

(Shocking example I know - but I did hack around with this idea for a while then realized it was too complex and time consuming for the customer segment that most likely would not use it! Also there are a few on the market already so in the list of apps not to develop!)

2. Littlemapdot.com is the blog that provides tid bits of information and a way to share discoveries from New Zealand for random thinkers that stumble across the blog.

(Hmmmm that was a bad example too! I don't have much of a direction for this blog, its just random stuff)

So if you mix the Lazy UVP and the Lean Canvas I think you will have a very good starting point for your idea!

Good luck :)

Over n out!

Dee

P.S. Feel free to share your UVP in the comments

Art Deco Social Media

As a bit of a rookie to Art Deco, I have had an awesome time sifting, searching and wondering through the many Art Deco enthusiast groups on the world wide web. See the tips below on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest and Reddit, for some Art Deco social time;

- Instagram 
You won't find old fogies posting black & whites but more young-ins and enthusiasts seeing and snapping daily Art Deco architecture and gorgeous art deco items. Check it out - amazing photography coupled with gorgeous art deco style.

Tech Tip - Popular hashtags are #artdeco #artdecoarchitecture #artdecodesign #vintagedeco

- Facebook
There are many Art Deco pages that post about their wares they are selling. But take a walk through all the 'groups' on Facebook. It is less about selling stuff and more about sharing the art deco love. I have found a few local groups in New Zealand but I am sure wherever you are from there might be a local shin-dig just for you! Best Napier NZ group is 'Napier - Art Deco, History, Heritage and People'.  

Tech Tip - in your Facebook search bar type Art Deco and click the magnifying glass symbol. Click 
the 'More' button and select 'groups'. Voila you have a lot of Art Deco groups to join!

- Pinterest

Prepare to get lost amongst pins and boards and not notice the time go by. To get started just search art deco and many pins will come up. From there delve into their boards and profiles and get following. Every time you follow an art deco board, their updates will pop up in your home screen. Easy updates and search. Just gorgeous stuff in there! Not really used to connect with people, rather to like and re-pin inspirational images of Art Deco. Great source :)

Tech Tip - Click my Pinterest board link on my side bar to go to Pinterest as your starting point. ---->

- Reddit

This is a strange one. The Reddit group on Art Deco is not updated often with interesting stuff and reddit on a whole is not for the faint hearted. However I simply love the conversation around Art Deco found on this platform. For example the below answer was a reply relating to someones Project on Art Deco 'What is your favourite part of Art Deco?'. Best answer hands down is below;

"[–]ZombieOmNom 10 points 1 year ago 

Aesthetically it's attractive in a timeless, tasteful way. It can be difficult to pull off and requires total coordination of decor, and when it is done well the effect is astonishing. It has a classical, nostalgic quality, in that it represents an archaic imagination of the future, from a time when the future seemed as exciting as it does today. It arrived at a time of cultural shift into consumer culture, where individualism was touted as the new model of economic progress. It flourished as a progression of the very beautiful art nouveau. It represented cultural and civic pride in fashionable architecture, being the style of choice for many important buildings such as power stations, train stations, sky scrapers and cinemas, and was largely the last publicly applauded architectural and artistic movement before the controversially ill-fated brutalism. It was tremendously influential on the way our environment eventually came to be; it spawned present day modernism, minimalism, and most other "modern" styles. To this day it has near universal appeal, and has become iconic.

Thanks ZombieOmNom! 

So there you go! These are just some alternatives than the classic 'type into Google' method of exploring Art Deco. I like to think of this as gracefully dragging Art Deco kicking and screaming into the 2015 techy world.

People all around the globe are living breathing Art Deco on a daily basis so get social darlin'! 

Enjoy :) Regards, Kiwi Dee xx

Vintage 1930's City in New Zealand

You may think it unlikely and odd that in little ole NZ, the country sometimes forgotten off the world map, that there is a random as vintage 1930s city. Some think NZ is only full of sheep or grassy green meadows and hobbits...

Walking through Napier (in New Zealand) and overhearing Mexican and German accents I wonder how they managed to find themselves exploring just a small wee dot on the map. Considering we are well off the beaten track and lets face it a little frontier-ish (you will look out of place if you don't have jandals on, and ditch the blazer, you will not fit in at all). Cruise ships and NZ Tourism must be making some impact.

One thing that I really did notice when I came back from a Europe backpacking trip was how new New Zealand was. I was a bit of a classics nut at school so I always wanted to head to the more  history rich places of the world and soak it all in. It never occurred to me Kiwi's were still building our main infrastructure where other world cities are light years ahead. I was quite shocked about having to learn the metro system in just about every major city I went to in Europe - Wellington and Auckland are still developing a rail system. I guess we don't really have the population to really justify massive metro systems.

Imagine if New Zealand was populated and built at the Ancient Roman time! Ha imagine that! A Colosseum in Taupo and hippodrome in Christchurch. Oh dear! The mind is wandering :)

I guess what I am trying to make sense of, is that we do have interesting things happening in NZ and having a fully Art Deco city smack bang in the middle of it is pretty cool. The natural disaster of the 1931 earthquake was an awesome excuse to create a bit of a 'Phoenix from the ashes' and ensuring Hawkes Bay could rebuild in an even more modern and stylistic way. Because NZ is still so young and in comparison it occurred quite early in the history of making NZ, therefore had the opportunity to create a unique art capital of the world (exaggerating a bit?)! Although there are a few too many businesses or rest homes that are run/overrun by old fogies - it is fast becoming a awesome lifestyle to be in the bay.

Quite a unique place if I may say. Vintage baby!

Cheers,
Kiwi Dee xx

P.S. Kiwis are so frontier-ish that whenever I type in Jandals it keeps autocorrecting me to sandals, vandals or pandals!!

Extra PS. I realize New Zealand has the word 'new' in the word...

Art Deco in a Nutshell

History in words can be over whelming or just downright boring. So I thought why not make an Art Deco worldle - nice, quick and easy. Get the gist :) See below..

Love it :)

If you want to make a worldle yourself go to worldle.net

Cheers

Kiwi Dee xx

P.S. I love the word ziggurats. I was in a musical called Young Frankenstein (awesome funny show!) and one of the characters was named Ziggy and the girls that danced with him were called Ziggets. Also our robot vacuum cleaner is called Ziggy (Ziggy StarHousedust). Ahh 'Z' words. Tehe Ziggurats

Local Guide to Survive Napier Art Deco Weekend

Me and my gorgeous friend at Art Deco Weekend 2014

Every February, a happy mob of dressed up 1930s hooligans converge on New Zealand's Art Deco Capital for a weekend of splendour and party.

Follow the below as a simple insiders guide to surviving such a weekend.

• If it is a scorcher (i.e. hot sunny Hawkes Bay day) you will need a parasol (women), hat (men) and a good lathering of sun block.

• Have a Art Deco getup. You well and truly feel out of place if you are not dressed up for the weekend. If you are doing a last minute costume - ladies find some long pearls, a non figure hugging dress (dropped waist) and a head band (put on horizontally not vertically), gentlemen - find some trousers, suspenders and a light button up shirt. Shoes? Well I am a kiwi girl at heart and am most comfortable in jandals but ladies wear a low heels and men in dress shoes. Voila! 

• Have a weekend plan and then a Plan B in case of bad weather

• Book ahead for accommodation and special events because blimey it gets busy! Consider renting a house in Napier or go further a field and book accommodation in Havelock North and combine going to see wineries at that time.

• A local favourite is to watch the war birds (vintage fighter planes) do their aerobatics show. Find out what time they are flying and find a spot on Marine Parade for the perfect watching spot.

• Take snacks and water. Yes there are stalls there on the weekend but it is always good to have a muesli bar and some water on hand to munch on to keep your energy up!

Well there you have it. Simple :) Any more advice my friends?

Have a jolly good time!

Cheers,

Kiwi dee xxx