Tag Archives: blogging

Do you want to read what I’m reading? Then read on…

Tweet These links are relevant to my interest but have been sitting in tabs for the last two weeks. I will read them, I >will<. But after I’ve dumped them here. They make quite an interesting view of what has … Continue reading

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Want to become a company blogger?

Tweet Here are the quick links to my Blogger’s Style Guide, which I’ve posted over on my Subs’ Standards blog as a series of 10 posts.  This is the ‘how-to’ that I give to my company bloggers when they start … Continue reading

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Five things I gained at SXSW 2010

Tweet After posting about the 12 things I learnt at SXSW 2010, here’s a more practical roundup of the things I came away with. I gained… * …some content strategy contacts This was one of my main reasons for attending. … Continue reading

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12 things I learnt at SXSW 2010

Tweet I learnt… * …that Austin looks awesome from the 33rd floor Fringe events outside of the main SXSW programme are occurring all the time. I just found out today for example that there were THREE Twitter parties (not just … Continue reading

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SXSW Wordle spells ‘Content people want’

Tweet I took 16 pages of notes at SXSW Interactive festival this year. It’s hard to get your head around all the difference panels, talks, core conversations and notes-to-self but I think this Wordle shows something of what I was … Continue reading

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Find your social media champions – but how?

Tweet Rand Fishkin, CEO & Co-Founder of SEOmoz.org, hit the nail on the head for me when he said: ‘Find a social champion!’ Speaking on Social Media Best Practices for Marketers Inside the Brand at Search Engines Strategies London marketing … Continue reading

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Two simple ways to justify online spend to the boss

Tweet There’s a lot of talk at Search Engine Strategies 2010 London about ‘doing it right’. SES London is a three-day conference and expo that brings together the superstars of SEO and SEM to reveal the latest ways they are … Continue reading

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I am attending these keywords in 2010: SES, SXSWi and CSForum

Tweet Somehow I’ve lined up a conference a month for the next three months. Here are their taglines, blurbs and what I’m aiming to do at each one: Search Engine Strategies 2010 London, UK, 15-19 February Tagline: The Original Search … Continue reading

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NYE at Birmingham Coach Station

Tweet Apologies for the cross-posting but my new travel blog Tourist Vs Traveller is now up and running, and has some nice, shiny new content on it so I’m shouting about it a bit. It being that time of year, … Continue reading

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I’m launching a new travel blog

Tweet It’s been two years since I started my first travel blog, What To Wear Where, in an effort to answer the niche packing question: ‘What do you wear in trendy Reykjavik in below-freezing December?’ While I still think the … Continue reading

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