Category: Business blogging
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Any questions for Shel Israel?
Shel Israel describes himself as “a recovering publicist“. Shel used to own a PR agency specialising in tech startups and Shel was involved in the initial launches of Sun Microsystems, PowerPoint, Filemaker, SoundBlaster, Napster, MapInfo, Virtual Vineyards and quite a few others More recently Shel co-authored the authoritative business blogging book Naked Conversations with Robert…
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Riya being bought by Microsoft?
Riya is a company I have mentioned previously – they have an incredible application which combines text and facial recognition with photo uploading, so that once you tell Riya who is who in your photo albums, it will recognise those people from then on out in any photos it sees! Riya also has tagging built…
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Robert Scoble podcast
As I mentioned previously, I arranged to interview Robert Scoble last night and we agreed that the interview could be podcast as part of the PR for the IT@Cork annual conference at which Robert will be speaking. I talked to Robert for nearly an hour last night (early this morning) – he was exceedingly generous…
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10 blogging tips
Steve Rubel has written a Ten Blogging Hacks post. There are some interesting suggestions there like using Writely as your blog editor (I have written about Writely before) – Writely has a spell checker and allows for online collaboration in writing so if you want to collaborate in the drafting of a post, Writely could…
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Publish and be damned (or possibly lose your house!)
I attended the presentation by Digital Rights Ireland at TechCamp Ireland recently and while I was impressed by the presenters and what they had to say, I honestly felt a lot of it was scaremongering to get support. In a one-to-one after the presentation, TJ McIntyre told me that simply by publishing an article, you…
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WordPress Podcasts not showing up – fixed!
WordPress is a joy to Podcast with – you simply upload your mp3 file, link to it in your post and WordPress takes care of all the other stuff (enclosures, etc.). I have been using WordPress to publish Podcasts since June of this year without any problems, until recently. The most recent Podcast I published…
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Arla Foods, Europe's largest dairy company has started blogging
I noticed that according to a post on Loic Le Meur’s blog, Arla Foods, Europe’s largest dairy company has started blogging. Loic tells us that: Arla now has three different blogs, all in Danish. They want to tell us about nutrition and health, the life on a farm and what’s happening “behind the scenes” in…