Tag: Blogging

  • Technorati resurrects the Marquee tag…

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    Tom Raftery
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    Technorati have overhauled their site completely. Some of the changes are great and some we could do without, frankly! The best change is that they have drastically sped up the site. I dunno did they add more servers or simply optimise their queries (I suspect the latter) but the site and particularly searches are now…

  • Blog training course discussion area

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    Paul O’Mahony is one of the people sitting in on the Blog Training Course I am running for it@cork. Paul has been blogging for a while now and I first met him at the Irish Blog Awards earlier this year. Paul made a suggestion in the comments on his own blog that I put up:…

  • Site re-brand

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    Tom Raftery’s Social Media is the new title of this blog. The old title, Tom Raftery’s I.T. Views, was more appropriate when I started the blog as my consultancy business was more techie then. With my consultancy business focussed almost entirely on Social Media now, I knew I had to make a change. Plus there…

  • BarCamp Dublin was great

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    I attended BarCamp Dublin at the weekend and it was a fantastic day – kudos to the organisers (Paul, Elly, Joe, Paul, and Eoghan). I was waylaid in the corridors several times so I didn’t get to as many talks as I would have liked. I did get to good friend and TCD law lecturer…

  • Going to Mix07!

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    MIX07 is Microsoft’s conference about its current and future directions on the Web. It is on in Las Vegas from April 30th to May 2nd. Kris Hoet, Marketing Manager with Microsoft EMEA contacted me the other day to say he had four invitations for European bloggers to go to the conference, (almost)* all expenses paid,…

  • They work inside too!

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    Too much of the discussion on social media (blogs/podcasts, wikis, etc.) in the enterprise revolves around outward facing tools and not enough mention is made of the advantages of using these tools internally. I met an Enterprise Ireland rep yesterday and his take on business blogs was that they were for client communications. And that…

  • Monica Leech comes down hard on Gavin!

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    Gavin Sheridan has had Monica Leech come down on him (or to be more precise her legal advisor, one Ms Karyn Harty has). Gavin has published an email he received from her solicitor today, asking him to remove a post from his blog which referenced her (mentioning the Joe Duffy show in which it was…

  • Congrats Hugh

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    Tom Raftery
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    Good friend and fellow blogger Hugh MacLeod has announced that he is now working with Microsoft. In a follow-on post, Hugh explains his reasons for doing so very clearly – Hugh, who coined the phrase the Global Microbrand, wants to now take his marketing philosophy and see if it can scale to mega corp size!…