Tag: Blogging

  • Gis a job – seriously!

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    Tom Raftery
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    I wrote a post yesterday called “‘Gis a job” where I referred to an article in the Boston Globe that claimed that blogging was good for your employment prospects. I mentioned that in all the time I have been blogging, I haven’t been offered a job. Thinking about this subsequently, I wondered if this was…

  • 'Gis a job!

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    Tom Raftery
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    We have heard of blogging for business – God know I have written about it enough times! but what about blogging for employment? The Boston Globe has a piece today about how having a blog can help you land a job. They contend that because blogs come up high in Google searches: Blogging creates a…

  • Do you still think blogging is a fad?

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    Tom Raftery
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    I see Dave Sifry (who I interviewed on PodLeaders.com a couple of weeks ago) has published a new quarterly State of the Blogosphere. Dave’s main findings are that the blogosphere is still doubling in size every 6 months – so it is maintaining its rate of virtually exponential growth. The blogosphere is over 60 times…

  • Is blogging becoming monologous?

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    Robert Scoble announced the other day that he was going to start moderating the comments on his blog: It was that moment that I decided to moderate my comments here. Yes, I am now approving every comment here. And I will delete any that don’t add value to either my life or the lives of…

  • Schwag disclosure

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have recently received some schwag – a biro, 2 t-shirts and a bag from Murphys and a t-shirt from Flock – so now you know anything I blog about these companies is bound to be tainted by the exorbitant presents they have been raining on me 😉 Having said that, if you really want…

  • Hello?

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    Rob, as a member of the Developer and Platform Group at Microsoft Ireland, you are supposed to be building a community – so how come I can’t leave a comment on your blog? UPDATE – Rob has now turned off the need to register on his blog in order to comment – thanks Rob, I…

  • The advantages of blogging for business

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    Blogging is still not recognised as a tool for businesses in Ireland – outside of the tech sphere, I can’t think of a single company who are blogging. Why should companies blog? Blogging is advantageous for companies on many fronts: Blogs are extremely cheap to setup and run Search engines love blogs Blogs convey Authority…

  • I'd like to thank the Academy…

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    Tom Raftery
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    Unbelievably I won the award for the Best Technical Blog at the Irish Blog Awards on Saturday night. I didn’t think I had much of a chance 1) considering the quality of the competition and 2) the fact that the volume of posting here has decreased since I upped my podcasting output! Still, those fivers…