Tag: Business blogging

  • Remove this blog from irishblogs

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    Tom Raftery
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    Dear Roger of Irishblogs – I have been having problems with my blog’s listing in search engines wwhich may be due to your practices. please remove this blog from your feed list for irishblogs (and corkblogs) until you: Stop caching content on corkblogs and Until corkblogs and irishblogs uses the original post URLs rather than…

  • Dell do well!

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    In case you missed it, Dell started a blog in the last couple of weeks. So what? Well, Dell has been roundly panned on the Internet for around 12 months now for not being responsive to criticism, for not listening. The term “Dell Hell” came to be coined referring to Dell’s poor customer service. Dell’s…

  • How not to complain

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    Michele Neylon put up a post last night, ostensibly about how not to do PR, but really it was about how some of his competitors are getting legalistic with clients. I think. The post was one of the more cryptic posts I have read in a long time. Seemingly someone somewhere, who may be a…

  • A solution for Robert Scoble?

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    Tom Raftery
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    In a recent comment on Shelley Powers’ site Robert Scoble explained one of his reasons for turning comment moderation on his blog, it has nothing to do with comment spam – he said: I am seeing more and more anonymous comments and I have been tracking their IPs and see that one person is showing…

  • 'Gis a job!

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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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    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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    Tom Raftery
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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…

  • Hello?

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    Tom Raftery
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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…