Category: Blogging
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Business blogging strategic benefits presentation
I have been doing a considerable amount of consulting for companies recently on the topic of business blogging. Most of the companies I visit first want a simple explanation of what a blog is and how it can benefit their company. To this end I put a presentation together on the strategic benefits of blogging…
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Technorati announcements
I see on Dave Sifry’s site that Technorati have made a couple of significant announcements. Firstly they have released new statistics on the size and rate of growth of the blogosphere: over 14 million blogs now indexed 80 000 new blogs per day – that’s about a new blog created every second! 900 000 posts…
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New feed for this blog
In an attempt to see if anyone reads this blog (I have a sinking feeling that my 10 million daily page impressions come from my mother constantly pressing refresh on the computer in their place!), I have set up a new feed for this blog. If you are subscribed to this blog through an RSS…
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3 Ireland should have a blog – cont'd
Michele has written an interesting follow-up to the articles I wrote yesterday on 3 Ireland’s launch here and here. In Michele’s article he compares 3’s launch here with their launch in Italy back in 2002: Prior to the launch in Italy in 2002 the marketing spend was gigantic. Their marketing department had a pre-launch budget…
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3 Ireland should have a blog
3 Ireland launched their Irish services today and there is a big discussion about the offerings happening on Boards.ie. Much of the discussion is around shortcomings of the offerings and ways they could be improved – mostly from people disenchanted with the incumbent operators. Much of this feedback would be invaluable to 3 Ireland –…
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Recruitment company gives RSS feeds for saved searches
I speculated recently in a post on the possible uses of RSS that one obvious use of saved search RSS feeds is for recruitment companies – jobseekers create their search, subscribe to the RSS feed it generates and get their ideal job delivered to them through their RSS reader! Now I see that this saved…
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Do you allow comments on your blog?
Do you allow comments in your blog? Most bloggers do, but you get the occasional bloggers who don’t, and you have to wonder, why not? What are they afraid of? Receiving feedback from blog readers is a great way to learn from people you might otherwise never come across. A blog without comments is just…
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Business blogging – what NOT to do!
There is loads of advice out there telling you how to blog successfully – there aren’t so many warning you of the pitfalls and advising how not to blog! The latest chapter of Naked Conversations is just such a guide. The advice it offers is: Don’t do character blogs Listen to what the blogosphere says…