Taking things social and All In now in MOBI ebook format

Now, this probably shouldn't have come as a surprise to me, considering... well... you know, but as soon as this writing got social, it completely tipped my relationship with it upside down. I spent so long with it on my own that it seemed to develop a sort of grudging growling co-presence, but now other people are commenting on it and playing with it, it's lighter. If I ever write anything ever again I think going social from the start will be the way forward. 


Also, HUGE thanks to @TimD who has converted All In into MOBI format for ebook readers (I've got a Kindle, but I think it works across a range of devices). IANAnAuthor, but now I can have my writing snuggled down next to all those people I greatly admire on my Kindle. Blown away. Working out how to host it so you can download it, if you want to. 

All in: An inquiry into being a technically social consultant, by Erica Packington

So, it looks as though the links aren't working in Scribd format. I can get them to work in downloaded PDF, and if I download from Scribd in Word. But not from this embedded format. Annoying, and weird. Am trying to work out what's going on. Meanwhile, if you are planning on taking a look, do try get a copy with the links working. I think they add quite a lot to the piece.

All in: An inquiry into being a technically social consultant, by Erica Packington

So. It's done.

After false starts, and worse, false endings, my dissertation "All in: An inquiry into being a technically social consultant" is done. I sent it to my institution an hour ago, will print it out, bind it, post it tomorrow. For now, I am playing with various means of making it public.


I know I want it to be something other than a document that sits on a shelf. I also know it's been written in a very specific style and for a particular purpose. I'm not sure how well it'll translate for those who don't share that intent but I figure, get it up and out and see what happens. In the end, it's a piece of work I hope to come back to and develop (when I can stop the twitching). Throwing it out there in this form might be the start of that. 


When I tweeted that I'd finished, and was working out the best way to make the document public, @timd offered to convert it into an ebook format. I'll post a link here when that's done. Meanwhile, I'm discovering Scribd from the POV of someone who has written something, not just someone who is reading someone else's work, so when that's sorted, I'll pop it up here.