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Blogging Workshop on International Women’s Day
Blogging is such a great way to build company reputation, and leads to more money, and more happiness through self expression. Many small business owners find writing their website difficult, but have no problem talking about what really matters to them in a blog.
Women [...]
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2009 seen through Twitter activity helps us to realise how communication is changing. The role of the web has been extended as twitter became more mainstream.
The 3 most striking features seem to be
twitter bystanders are ahead of the traditional “newsgatherers” even at formal political events (G20, Iran)
twitter is a place where people want [...]
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One of the three founders of twitter Evan Williams (@ev) says that London is the twitter capital for the second year running.
He revealed this on Newsnight interviewed by Kirsty Wark. I am a little astonished, as most of the people I meet on twitter are from the US!
I am often asked what is the point [...]
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In February when the Times published a guide to the Top 50 celebrities on twitter Stephen Fry was number one with 98,616 followers.
A moment ago when I checked he had 747,736.
The online world has grown rapidly over the last six months so it is not surprising – however the rate of the growth is amazing..
Stephen [...]
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Spam comments that told a story and did not appear to be spam did fool me and Akismet, the spam terminator on Wordpress. Because they were not just a bunch of dreary keywords, which I guess led back to a dubious site, I actually preferred deleting them. Well, if you are going to delete spam [...]
My blog is three months old! As with all anniversaries it is a good idea to celebrate so please help yourself to a piece of virtual cake and help me blow out the candles!
The other good thing about anniversaries is that they create a natural opportunity to look back and look forward.
What are my thoughts [...]
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twitter’s #followfriday is a chance to give public recognition (twitter recognition so it is nearly the same thing) to people who contribute. Because they give value you want to tell other people about them. It is an excellent way of creating connection and standing up for who or what you know like and [...]
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Tulips are on show this week in London at the world-famous Chelsea Flower Show which set me thinking.
What is the difference between tulips and twitter?
Twitter is the subject du jour for the press. People are joining twitter in their thousands and this is creating publicity which in turn boosts twitter.
It has become a craze.
I am [...]
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Delighted to say the blog received the first real keyword-rich search phrase today.
Great news. This means that someone looking for what I offer
can find my site on the internet among the 90,000,000
my research is beginning to pay off
I have evidence that something is working!
It is all about celebrating the journey and not simply [...]
My Wordpress blog is four weeks old. Having had a few miscarriages of communication with previous blogs my idea this time was simply to behave as a real parent. My entirely new domain felt like a new domain in every sense.
My blogging aims for the first month were:
To provide the best [...]