Ada Lovelace Day is in memory of Ada King, daughter of the poet Lord Byron, who became Countess of Lovelace, and died in 1852. Her Automatic Engine is credited as being the first computer programme. The opportunity for this day is to give credit to women who inspired interest in science, maths and technology by [...]
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Ada Lovelace Day – anniversary for inspiring women in science and technology
March 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Inspiration
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Women in technology – blogging on Ada Lovelace Day
March 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Inspiration
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Ada Lovelace is thought to be the first computer programmer. She died in 1852 aged only 37. She was the daughter of the poet Lord Byron, but he played no part in her life.
Ada Lovelace day on March 24th is an opportunity for bloggers everywhere to acknowledge women in science and technology who [...]
Blogging Workshop on International Women’s Day 2010
February 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Inspiration, Internet Marketing, Social media, Uncategorized
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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 [...]
Complimentary spam comments on your blog
August 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Face to Face Networking, Social media, Uncategorized, Words
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 [...]
Happy 3 month blog birthday
July 15th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Inspiration, Social media
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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Creative spam with a story fools Akismet and interests me
June 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Marketing
Spam is getting more creative! I have just received 20 spam comments which Akismet (the Wordpress anti-spam device) has let through its filter, and presented to me to delete or approve.
When I read the first one I was not sure if it was spam.
It started with a feel good quote. I am completely in favour [...]
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Wordpress permalinks
May 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Technology
I changed the Permalinks setting. (Settings on the dashboard for Wordpress 2.7.1) The default is number based eg p=15. The alternative straightforward options for “pretty” permalinks include a date reference – either day or month – and the name of the post.
It has got to be good for SEO as real [...]
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Keyword-rich search term for blog
May 14th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Social media
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 [...]
Happy 1 month blog birthday
May 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Social media, Uncategorized, Words
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 [...]
Wordpress.org Wordpress.com – API key
April 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Branding, Marketing, Social media, Technology
When I first heard about Wordpress I assumed that it was one entity and similar to Blogger or Typepad.
You pick from your prescribed themes and off you go. This is true for Wordpress.com. At Wordpress.com your blog is hosted on the Wordpress.com site so effectively you have the benefit of the [...]