Tag: blog
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Netvisionaries
The IIA Netvisionary awards were held last night in Killiney Castle hotel. Twenty Major won the best blog category and Brian Greene won the best podcast – both richly deserved. Twenty contacted me a couple of weeks back and asked me to accept the award on his behalf, on the offchance that he won, as…
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Arguments against business blogging?
A couple of commenters on a recent post raised issues I hear time and again when I discuss the advantages of blogs for businesses: Blogging has a poor perception Blogging takes too much time Blogging allows people to make negative comments on your site Let’s deal with each of these points: 1. Blogging has a…
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Can Google Reader scale the Great Firewall of China?
Jeremiah Owyang is on a trip to China at the moment. He put up a post on his blog the other day saying he couldn’t access Robert Scoble’s blog from inside China – it seems to be blocked by the Great Firewall of China for some reason. I don’t know if this applies to all…
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Reasons not to steal bandwidth
[Final Update] – Post title changed one more (and final) time. I have updated this post one final time because I didn’t realise how quickly and more importantly how high up my post would come in a search for Noah’s name. I have spoken to Noah and he is genuinely sorry and I don’t (now)…
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Google Blogsearch adds ping
Thanks to Niall Kennedy for pointing out Google’s new ping service. This is great – one of the biggest problems I had with Google’s blogsearch was how slow it was to pick up on posts. Several hours after posting an article, typically it still wasn’t up on Google whereas the post is often up on…
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Blog training course commences
I’m just about to kick off the first of the it@cork blog training events – there are five training sessions between now and October 23rd. Hopefully I won’t totally bore the pants off the attendees and we’ll get some new and interesting blogs emerging from the course!
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Ryder Cup blog
I’m delighted to see that all my nagging of my old friend John Prendergast has paid off and he has started a blog! However, I wouldn’t have been more surprised if it was about crochet! I never knew John was a closet golf fan. John’s is the Ryder Cup blog (the Ryder cup is the…
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Adding images to your blog post
A picture is worth a thousand words or so the old saw goes and it is certainly true that an image can greatly help the look of a blog post. Several people have asked me recently how to add images to blog posts so I thought I’d put up a blog post explaining how I…