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Introducing the new redesigned blog

August 8, 20111:18 pm

I am happy to report that I finished the design of my blog yesterday (All done by the great people at Go Yippi in Berlin)). The purpose of the update was to achieve a more compact view of the different blog elements and to provide you with the content you are interested as quickly as possible.

These are the major differences/changes to the previous blog template:

I now have two sidebars instead of one very long bar
I moved the navigation bar below the URL and picture to create a more compact reading experience
The “About this blog” is now located next to the main blog image of me to make it easier to get what this blog is about for any new visitor
As a result of the more compact elements I can now include more “Recent posts” which will make it easier for everyone to directly find what they might have missed
I now included an “Imprint” page with detailed copyright, analytics cookies and other information required by German law since this blog is hosted in Germany now
The text of the individual blog post is larger in comparison to the old template. This hopefully makes for easier reading
The last significant change was to move the list of my domains to my company website. This section only confused my readers from the feedback I got from you.

So what do you think? All feedback is much appreciated and if you notice any bugs please let me know as well.

My Ultimate Bookmarking and Sharing Tool

May 6, 200910:21 am

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If you are a blogger or internet publisher then the possibility for your reader and yourself to properly bookmark, save and share of information on the web is very important. That is why a convenient bookmarking and sharing tool is a must nowadays.

I have been looking for the best tool for quite a while and must say that I never found the right one for my blog until I came across the AddtoAny tool some weeks ago.

Those of you who know me and have been reading my posts know that I am not trying to promote a product here to get something out of it. This tool is so useful and convenient for your visitors that I just couldn’t resist writing about this tool.

I have been using the WordPress.org plugin as my blog uses WordPress andit has been working like a charm for me over the past few weeks. Other then WordPress there are a lot more possibilities in terms of where to use it of course (Screenshot on the right). Drupal, TypePad, Joomla, etc. Really nice.

To keep this post short today…..If you have a blog or some kind of website with information that you would like to have bookmarked, saved or shared and you want to provide your visitors with a very convenient way to do this then you can’t go wrong with AddtoAny.

Welcome to the new look of FabianPattberg.com

July 18, 200812:06 am

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Earlier then expected has the new WordPress theme gone live today and I hope you like it.

Now everyone will be able to see who is behind this blog from the first moment you click on the page. Scary? Well you will get used to it once you have revisited my site for a couple of times.

Thanks to Christian at GoYippi for the quick and great work.

All the best,
Fabian

Busy, busy, busy but lovin it!

June 11, 20083:13 am

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I have not been writing for over a week now because I have been extremely busy to say the least. You can decide whether this is good or bad I guess.
This was my schedule in the last week and a half:
Fly back from Germany, stay one day, fly to Faro in Portugal, get a car to go to Sevilla in Spain, stay in Sevilla for 2 nights, get back to Faro and then fly back to London. And then back in London I am currently trying to drum up business for my consulting services, expand the CorporateResponsibility.Net website and network, network, network! 
Sounds like stress (which it is) but I LOVE IT!
I have some new development to talk about as well.
On the SustainabilityForum.com side have I now been able to use a new front page instead of a holding page. I used the WordPress Content Management System and simply copied the style and colour from the forum to create a somewhat look-alike of the vbulletin software in order to have it blend in when people visit the front page and then the forum subsequently.
Take a look if you like: SustainabilityForum.com
I also now have the possibility to provide a space for partners of the SustainabilityForum.com. This has always been missing.
I also have exciting news around my CorporateResponsibility.Net website. I managed to kick-start an interview series with leader in the CSR field. This means that I will conduct interviews with a number of organisations and individuals around a specific CSR topic specific to that company. The interviews series will start in the next few weeks and hopefully be very useful to everyone interested in CSR.

This week seems to go quite good so far. I am off to have a lunch meeting with a company today and my wife and I have an interesting meeting tomorrow evening. We will see how these two meetings will go.

Until then all the best,
Fabian

Berlin this week and the redevelopment of this blog

May 30, 20086:29 pm

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Advance warning: It is already after midnight now so already apologies for my bad English, but I felt that I needed to write my next blog post before I am going to bed.

I have been in Berlin/Germany most of this week and helped out at the ILA exhibition where my parents had an exhibition stand to present the products they are selling in the aviation business. This meant that I was able to enjoy the great sunny weather we had here in the eastern parts of Germany where as in the western parts of Europe thunderstorms and rain pretty much ruined the week. This was a welcomed change to my regular business activities as well. But to be perfectly honest, I am also happy to get back to the things I love. And that is to build my consulting business and manage and develop my current websites.

This leads me nicely to the other developments of the week. After the exhibition today I went into Berlin City Centre to meet a pair of WordPress Designer and Programmers to discuss the update of this blog and the SustainabilityBlog.org. These two are running the business called GoYippie. Kati and Christian (the two people running goYippie) are really nice and highly competent people as far as I can tell. We talked extensively about my thoughts of redevelopment, agreed a fee for the redevelopment of this blog and I am really happy to have found two people that share my passion for this kind of topic such as sustainability and the important role of the web to promote sustainability across the globe.
The time plan is to have the new blog ready in 6-8 weeks so stay tuned to see the new and totally unique new design of this blog.
Once we have finished this redevelopment we are looking to update the SustainabilityBlog.org by giving it a brand new look and add some nice new features.

All the best,
Fabian

Rainy April weather and the look out for a WordPress designer

April 14, 20085:40 pm

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Hello everyone,

I flew from London to Düsseldorf/Germany today and the weather is really horrible. It was just beautiful in London today but not here unfortunately. But I guess that does not really matter as I will be sitting in front of my computer most of the time anyway!

I am also on the lookout for a WordPress designer to get some WordPress themes done. So if you are or know a good WordPress designer with reasonable prices, get in touch.

If not but you wonder what WordPress is then these links might help you:

www.wordpress.org – Download your free wordpress software to set up your own hosted blog
www.wordpress.com – Create your own free of cost wordpress blog. Similar to blogger or blogspot.

WordPress is really a great piece of software if you want to start your own blog, honestly. I am not using anything else.

All the best,
Fabian