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My digital switchover

I wasn’t going to post this but the above is what happens when a pun comment and some beery late night Photoshopping collide. All those TV reminders about the analogue-to-digital switchover in September must have also seeped into my brainz. … 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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RIP Sub-editing 1987-2008

My blog mentor used to say keep your posts short. One point per post. Three paragraphs should do it. Well, here it is. The perfect post. Albeit leading to 3,000 >more< words of juicy goodness about a trade that is … 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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SXSW – the Glastonbury of conferences

A little SXSW diary catchup… It’s the halfway point of SXSW Interactive and I’m still gearing up into this festival to end all web festivals. Here’s my personal/business mission statement for this year’s event – slightly different from last year … Continue reading

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My first video interview ends in a Midlands Today fantasy

This is quite exciting, to me anyway, because I’ve done print interviews and I’ve taken video – now I’ve finally put both together. There are lots of mistakes but on the whole I’m not unhappy with it, especially as it … 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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Why I am moving back to Brum…

It looks like I’ve reached that moment in a blogger’s life when you log into your poor neglected blog(s), make apologies to folks for the lack of posting, explain why and then make a new promise to report back a bit … Continue reading

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