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JANUARY 2022 Broadcast: Martina Nicolls





 JANUARY 2022

As 2022 begins, I'd like to wish everyone a year of health, fulfillment, friendship, love, peace, and happiness, personally and professionally.

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INSIGHTS FROM MY AID DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANCIES

LEARNING FROM SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGNS

Learn from social media. Many development programs that I evaluated this year made use of social media platforms to communicate, advocate, and raise awareness. However, the use of social media was poorly analyzed and disaggregated into information to determine its success, to provide targeted support for users, and to identify factors for program improvement. The definition of success should be more clearly specified than the number of people who use the plaftform. For example, who uses it, why, what did people want to know, what did they want to communicate, and what were their concerns? How did you address these issues - what did you do with the information to make the program more successful or to address the users' concerns? Multi-layered disaggregation of the data helps in the future to target specific people, sectors, locations, concerns, etc. for further support and to improve the program.

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JANUARY 2019 FLASHBACK 

BEIRUT, LEBANON

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MY TOP 7 WRITING IMPLEMENTS IN 2021 

1. Star pen; 2. Crown pen; 3. Rabbit pen; 4. Multi-coloured pencils; 

5. Lion pen; 6. Yellow highlight pencil; and 7. 4-colour pen.

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MY TOP 7 NOTE BOOKS IN 2021 

1. Spiral Free Diary Note (made in Japan); 2. It's Okay A5 Notebook (made in China); 3. Spiral Rodin's The Thinker (my hand-made notebook); 4. Spiral Alibabette Edition, yellow & black dots (made in Paris); 5. Spiral marbled notebook (hand-made at local printer, Paris; 6. Season Paper, blue birds (made in France); and 7. Snow Leopard blank paper (my hand-made notebook).

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ICONIC PARIS

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CHAMPAGNE REGION, FRANCE, DECEMBER 2021

READ MORE and VIEW MORE PHOTOGRAPHS:

​Roman Triumphal Arch, Reims; Champagne wine region, France; Champagne Avenue, Epernay, France;​

​Champagne Julien Chopin, Monthelon;​

​Champagne Taittinger, France; Champagne Dom Caudron, Passy-Grigny, France.​

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TOP 5 POSTS IN 2021: FEAST OR FAMINE

  1. ​The Meaning of Headlines - 'to make a stand'​
  2. ​The acacia trees of Kenya​
  3. ​Felix Potin building in Paris renovated and revealed​
  4. ​Mussels and champagne​
  5. ​Women Painters 1780-1830: The Birth of a Battle​

​FEAST OR FAMINE WEBSITE​

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​SIMILAR BUT DIFFERENT IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM - WEBSITE ​

​Goodfellow's Tree Kangaroo​

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​GIVEAWAY​

Win 10 assorted greeting cards with my photographs HERE​

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A FLOWER EXPECTED EVERYWHERE

Website: See information and photos on flowers, gardens, floral art, poetry, books ... HERE​

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THE PARIS RESIDENCES OF JAMES JOYCE

The blogs on my website The Paris Residences of James Joyce are under the category Opal Hush, connecting the past to the present, and discovering people and places in Paris.

Opal Hush is mentioned in James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses. It's a drink - a quarter of glass of claret topped with lemonade from a soda siphon.

​OPAL BLUSH BLOGS​

​READ MORE ABOUT THE BOOK​

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