Category: Blogging
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IT@Cork Annual Conference program announced
The IT@Cork Annual Conference program has been announced. The theme for the conference is Breaking the Barriers and the opening talk, Blogging for Business, is being given by Robert Scoble. Other speakers include Charles Handy, Joe Gantly and Paul O’Callaghan. There will be a parallel Technical Forum in the afternoon – delegates can choose to…
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More about Google Blog Search
An important feature of Google’s new Blog Search to be aware of is, as Niall Kennedy and Damien Mulley have noted, it is not really a Blog Search – it is a Feed Search. This may sound like semantics but there is an important distinction – many bloggers only publish summaries of their posts in…
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Google launches flawed blog search
Google’s long anticipated blog search was launched overnight (I guess that means they’re not buying Technorati then Tom!). Google have made a faq about their blog search available where they say: There are a few different ways you can get to Blog Search: * blogsearch.google.com (Google-style interface) * search.blogger.com (Blogger-style interface) * The Blogger Dashboard…
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Irish bloggers dinner location
I am organising a bloggers dinner with Robert Scoble for the night of November 30th. Robert will be in town for the IT@Cork Annual Conference. Several people have asked me to ensure that the dinner is in a nice venue! I had originally thought that having it in the Rochestown Park would be simplest as…
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Memeorandum's hopelessly US-centric site
Robert Scoble wrote an article overnight in praise of Memeorandum’s splitting itself into two sites. Memeorandum, in case you haven’t come across it, aggregates news from the blogosphere by topic and presents it in the form of a news site – very similar to Google News in concept but with its focus on the blogosphere…
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Benefits of podcasting to businesses
I have done a bit of Podcasting on this blog; as an experiment mostly. I have had to discontinue it because the sound on my Mac has failed(!) – also, it takes considerably longer to Podcast than to simply blog – a simple Podcast of less than 10 minutes was taking me up to an…
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Corporate blogging policies
Written blogging policies are always a good idea for a company – they help to avoid any ambiguities for employees on what it is acceptable to blog about (and how). Seemingly it was the lack of blogging policies which led to Google’s sacking of Mark Jen, for instance. Hill & Knowlton are a PR firm…
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Stormhoek create blog buzz
I posted previously about the “blog buzz” that can be created by having a few bloggers write about a topic – Skype and Firefox are two great examples of companies who have used this to their great advantage (as outlined in detail in Naked Conversations). Now it appears we have another example of this closer…