Tag: blogs
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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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Shemas Eivers – Blogs and search engine optimisation (SEO)
Shemas Eivers is the MD of Client Solutions and he was at a meeting I also attended recently. Shemas was asking about tools for SEO and when I replied that blogs are the most powerful tool I know of for increasing SEO, Shemas didn’t seem to believe me. Fair enough. Shemas this post is for…
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IT@Cork Web 2.0 conference talks podcast
I finally got around to putting up the talks from the IT@Cork Web 2.0 Conference! Shel Israel led off the talks at the IT@Cork Web 2.0 conference with a great introduction to blogs and social media – drawing very much on his experience co-authoring a book on business blogging called Naked Conversations called Naked Conversations…
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Salim Ismail interview coming up
I will be interviewing Salim Ismail, chairman & co-founder of PubSub in the next couple of days. Pubsub is a blog search engine or as Salim likes to say a “matching engine”. I was amazed to learn, from talking to Salim here at the les Blogs 2.0 conference, that Salim lived and worked in Cork…
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Shel Israel podcast
The Shel Israel interview went ahead last night, as planned. Shel was great, full of warm humour, interesting insights and relevant anecdotes. below are the questions I asked him and the times in the podcast they were asked: Shel, what is it about Ireland that appeals to you? – 1:15 You guys wrote Naked Conversations…
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Podcasting search engines reviewed.
In my recent podcast with Robert Scoble, one of the issues I raised with him was how much easier text blogs are to index for a search engine, than are podcasts or videoblogs. Robert agreed that this was the case but he made the point that search engines are using link text and the text…
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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…
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WordPress.com "major drive failure"
I mentioned in a post earlier this morning that I was having problems accessing wordpress.com blogs – wordpress.com is a hosted multi-user version of the blog software I use, WordPress. The site is now available again but suffered a “major disk failure” according to a message on the wordpress.com Dashboard. The data loss is presumably…