Tag Archives: blogging

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

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 been … Continue reading

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Want to become a company blogger?

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 writing … Continue reading

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Five things I gained at SXSW 2010

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. Content … Continue reading

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12 things I learnt at SXSW 2010

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 the … Continue reading

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SXSW Wordle spells ‘Content people want’

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 getting … Continue reading

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Find your social media champions – but how?

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 day … Continue reading

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Two simple ways to justify online spend to the boss

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 dancing … Continue reading

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

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 Engine … Continue reading

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NYE at Birmingham Coach Station

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, I’ve … Continue reading

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I’m launching a new travel blog

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 idea … Continue reading

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