One can master a skill, but transfer or explain it to somebody else is not always easy. To ensure that its personnel his providing the best knowledge transfer, the MSF France and MSF Switzerland learning units jointly organize, twice a year, a “training of trainers” (ToT). Before, they used to do these trainings at their […]
Creating e-learning material is made very easy with softwares like tt performance suite. In February, I attended, with some of my MSF colleagues working with me on Symphony*, a 4-day TTS workshop at the headquarter of MSF Spain. The training covered the admin part (overall configuration, user roles and preferences, document types, workflows etc.) and […]
“Happiness Manager.” That’s my new unofficial title at the office! And I am quite proud of it. In fact, I started working for Medecins Sans Frontieres - Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in October but I was hired as “internal communication officer”, which is my official title. MSF embarked on a global HRIS project of design, […]
I think I was born a “nomad.” I have always liked to explore new places and to challenge myself in new environments. At the age of 20, I left France to Spain with one suitcase and ended up spending eight years there. Then, curious to discover something new, I took my suitcase again and moved […]
I started blogging a little bit by accident. I was a student and one of my class midterm projects was to create a blog. I got so excited about this project that I not only passed the class with an A but I carried on writing my blog even after I graduated! Looking back, I […]
Very often, users of IAMSocial, my WordPress Theme, contact me. I always answer to their emails, trying to understand what is their issue. Is it something they are doing wrong? Is it something that my theme is missing? Is it a bug? One day, an email particularly caught my attention; it was from somebody with […]
I went to WordCamps as volunteer, as contributor and as simple attendee. What I never did, is to attend as speaker. Last weekend, at WordCamp Toronto, I was close! With thecplab, I was the communication assistant of one of them: Florian Gottschall. Florian, and the Vinubis team, recently released a plugin , WP Video Editor, that […]
Being a member of the WordPress community is a great way to travel the world and make great connections. While in Vienna, volunteering for the WordCamp Europe Communication Team, I met with the CEO of Vinubis, Florian Gottschall and his business partner Miriam Selzle. All started with a normal conversation about business, at the WCEUBall, […]
Wherever they go, Digital Nomads look for coworking places where they can bring their laptop and sit for hours while working remotely for their clients from all over the world, and eventually, make good connections. I just spent two months in Paris and that’s basically what I did everyday. As soon as I arrived, back […]
Eight years in Spain, five in New York - Oops, sorry: Brooklyn - Lately, my nomad’s heart has been longing for a new place to be. After looking all over the map, I finally thought “Why not just go back home?” Paris, my hometown, is becoming THE European tech hub every entrepreneur wants to be […]
One of the first thing I do when I open my eyes at the morning is to grab my iPad and check my emails. This morning I received THE email I have been waiting for so long: IAMSocial has been approved! That means that you can now download it from the official WordPress Theme Directory. […]
Certain equations are not particular only for their function. They are particular for the simple and poetic truth they contain. thecplab equation is one of them. For a long time, my teammate and I have been trying hard to solve it. Over ten years of experiments with Colectivo Piloto have led us to this pretty […]
After submitting IAMSocial to the WordPress Directory in August, I finally heard back from the Review Team last week. As I expected, my theme was not approved to go live right away and my reviewer sent me a long list of issues to be fixed. After working hard on them, I resubmitted IAMSocial, now 1.0.2. […]
After Mazzat Restaurant and Carroll Gardens Diner, Carroll Garden Association is the third business in Columbia Waterfront that I have helped with its website. However, it is the first ever, to go live with my WordPress theme IAMSocial. In fact, if you remember this post, they were my first testers. Thanks to their feedback my […]
“The Cloud…” Such a trendy concept these days. In fact, this is just another word for “The Internet” and Colectivo Piloto already was on it. But the news is that I just migrated its website - and others of my websites, hosted on my traditional shared server - to a “Cloud Server.” The difference: I […]
Today there are TLD (Internet top-level domains) for almost everything. Depending on where you’re from, what you do or what you like, you’ll find THE domain name extension that will enhance your identity and make it easier for your visitors to find your site and understand its purposes. Now, stop reading and look at my […]
I like to think of my website and my blog as two complementary platforms to give my visitors insights not only on my work, but also on my personality. In the Oxford Dictionary, “complementarity” is defined as follow: “The concept that two contrasted theories, such as the wave and particle theories of light, may be […]
I gave Foundation Zurb a chance when starting #IAMSocial. Not really convinced, I switched back to Bootstrap and LESS. A duo, I have been using for many projects now, including this blog. This semester, I am taking MMP460 and our first project is to work on our portfolio. The requirements: use WordPress along with Foundation […]
Carroll Garden Association is a non-profit organization “Providing Housing, Economic Revitalization, Outreach, and Advocacy to the Residents of Southwest Brooklyn.” I met with its staff participating with Mazzat Restaurant at the 6th Annual Columbia Waterfront Fall Festival which the organization promotes each year in September. Since then, they have been helping me and Go digital! […]
“Primavera de los Realizadores” started as a static HTML & CSS website for my MMP 240 class final project. It turns out it is now a dynamic web app using Express, running on a Parse cloud server and also my final project for another of my MMP class: 310. Using a BaaS such as Parse […]
About two years ago I decided to dig into Bootstrap. It took me some efforts at the beginning but with time and practice I got used to its column grid system standards, its powerful UI components and its LESS based structure. Always willing to try out new techniques, I was excited when our professor introduced […]
As web designers and developers, we tend to take our design for granted and we expect the user to get it right away. But, what’s obvious to us, might not be as obvious to a person who sees our website for first time and has no idea what it’s all about. Last week, I had […]
The challenge of creating a WordPress theme is to not only make it look good on the frontend, but also to provide users with features in the backend that allow them to easily customize their website without having to touch the code. WordPress makes it easy for us, web developers, to extend the admin to […]
2004-2014. I could not believe it myself: it’s been ten years that Pablo Herrera and I co-founded Colectivo Piloto. To celebrate, we launched the new website we so hardly worked on all summer long. Maybe you already read some of the posts of this project on this blog. We want to thank all the people […]
The midterms are over. Yet, it is time to focus on the finals. Actually, I already know the requirements for my MMP 350 class: create a WordPress theme. This is a new step for me and my experience working with this CMS. Indeed, I have already created customized WordPress templates, coded for my owns projects, […]
Just like I expected: the next assignment for my MMP 240 is to code a responsive navigation bar. Based on this article, I am due to state my opinion regarding the different responsive techniques commonly used and to try to apply one of them to my project: Primavera de los Realizadores. As I already mentioned, […]
I feel like my semester started yesterday, yet it is already time for midterms. My previous post actually talked about the midterm due for my MMP 350 class. This one is about the midterm due for my MMP 240 class. The project is still the same: Primavera de los Realizadores, and the approach still is […]
This is a “1.0 launch” because I still have a lot to do. But, that’s it. I am live! Remember this post? Well, this is reality now. And you are reading it. It is actually one of my midterm projects due this Friday for my MMP 350 class. So I am giving up on the […]
Since my last MMP 240 assignment, I have been thinking a lot about the “mobile first” concept. Why not applying this concept to my blog? As I mentioned in this post, since I have been using bootstrap 3, I have been coding my CSS from a mobile first perspective, however, I am still designing my […]
The final project for my MMP 240 class is to create a website for a show-conference type event. Because I like to apply what I do in class to real life projects, I automatically thought of the project the Colectivo Piloto wants to organize in Spring: “La Primavera de los Realizadores“. The first assignment, due […]
Indeed, pink is my favorite color, and I want you all to know it. But I also want you all to read my posts. yet, I am not sure how much of them you’ll actually read entirely if I use white fonts over a pink background.
…and had a new idea: isabellegarcia.com will be the domain for my portfolio and aicragellebasi.com the one for my blog. Here’s a quick flow of the new set up: The portfolio site will stay the same for now. I will just add a link to my blog. The blog site will be my final […]
It’s been just a week since Pablo and I decided to re-think the homepage of the soon to come new web page of the Colectivo Piloto. Yet, the progress is already taking a nice turn out. Pablo has been working on cool cinematographs and we have been running a few tests. It is looking good, […]
Maybe it is not a bad idea to take advantage of my MMP 350 class to also work on my own portfolio. I am always working on other projects and tend to leave my own stuff for later… “I’ll do this when I have time”. But here’s the thing: I NEVER HAVE TIME!
So let’s do this.
The Colectivo Piloto is a non-profit organization I co-founded in 2004 when I was living in Spain. Today, the Colectivo is trying to get more projects in the United States. Particularly New York. This is why, I have been working on the new website all summer long. I want to get it out there asap! […]