It has been a bit of a tornado start to the year for me so, with the first sunshine of the year signaling Spring (fingers crossed), I'm extending my Spring cleaning to my sites and blogs.

This is mainly for the handful of you that have actually subscribed to my blogs.  I'm transitioning so that the content will be separated out across various blogs as follows:

Rochelle Dancel

In a couple of weeks, this blog will be moving to blog.rochelledancel.com.  The reason for the URL change is because it is currently published by FTP to Blogger and, as Blogger has removed support for FTP uploads, it has to be migrated to a new URL via their migration tool to facilitate canonical indexing.  My RSS feed is now available via Feedburner, so please update your RSS readers so you'll be up to date when the change happens.

This will remain my principle blog covering all things work-related, as well as commentary and tips on work-related issues.  If you follow my blog for posts relating to branding, communications, non-profit and design, this is where it will continue to be published.

Philosophy Times Studio

For the most part, Philosophy Times Studio will be handling my collaborative projects, most immediately production for the new webseries, 2 Girls Kissing.  Posts on that blog will cover production updates, as well as updates on forthcoming projects.  This site will be available around the end of April.

Rochelle Dancel on Posterous

If you want to know what my favourite meal of the day is, why I think everyone should nap, or a great band that I went to see rock it out, my Posterous blog is where you'll find all the weird and sometimes wonderful life sprinkles in my work/life ice cream cone.

So that's it.  The new feed will be available on Feedburner in the next couple of weeks, so follow me on Twitter to catch the announcement and in the meantime update your RSS readers accordingly.

I have finally gotten around to scheduling in some time to develop my own site, so that's in the works, as well as a number of other web properties, so it's going to be a very exciting year.  Cheers for your support :)

This is one of the boardroom walls across from my desk at the PayPoint.net office.  It’s about 10ft high and 15ft wide.   As you can see, it’s a perfect blank canvass that we need to fill.  And we have five other walls of about similar size.

After a quick consultation around the office, we’ve decided that we’d quite like some montages designed around themes related to our business areas, printed on wallpaper (or very large decals) to cover the wall edge to edge.

So, designers and/or printers and/or digital wallpaper specialists – if this is something you’ve done before, please get in touch asap: you can find me on Twitter or email rochelledancel [at] paypoint.net.

Cheers!

Every new beginning is marked with a new name.  But I'm having issues selecting one and, as result, it's holding me up somewhat.

I freelance under my own name and will continue to do so in future.  However, because of the projects I’m launching this year and the increasing number of collaborations I’m doing I need to form a limited company with a new business name.

I’m not hiring anyone, I’m not looking to turn into an agency at this stage or anything like that – it’s still going to be projects either delivered exclusively by me or led by me.  Apart from design and web strategy projects, this new entity will look after all of my web series production, any online properties (including blogs) and a new merchandise line.

My work is ever-changing - it ranges from creative to consultancy to management, whilst my clients range from non-profits to businesses and media publishers - so the name needs to be malleable/vague enough to encompass all of these things.  Consequently, I’d like to eschew words like ‘media’, ‘creative’ or ‘productions’.

I’ve narrowed it down to three choices:

• Philosophy Studio – ordinarily, I would have passed on this one because it contains ‘studio’; however, it’s currently the name of my work-related blog and most people that follow me know it.

• Hey, Squish! – I just like this; I came up with this when brainstorming names for my t-shirt line, but ‘Produced by Hey, Squish!’ sounds pretty good too.

• Oli&Chris – Named after the personalities of both of my brothers: fun, witty, courageous, thoughtful, serious, spontaneous, pragmatic, dynamic, juxtaposed…

So, please vote!  And leave your comments in the comments… Thanks!