Tag: Business blogging
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The advantages of blogging for business
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…
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Publish and be damned (or possibly lose your house!)
I attended the presentation by Digital Rights Ireland at TechCamp Ireland recently and while I was impressed by the presenters and what they had to say, I honestly felt a lot of it was scaremongering to get support. In a one-to-one after the presentation, TJ McIntyre told me that simply by publishing an article, you…
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WordPress Podcasts not showing up – fixed!
WordPress is a joy to Podcast with – you simply upload your mp3 file, link to it in your post and WordPress takes care of all the other stuff (enclosures, etc.). I have been using WordPress to publish Podcasts since June of this year without any problems, until recently. The most recent Podcast I published…
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New lame Adserving software
Mark Evans has written an article about a new Ad Serving company called AdGenta. It is supposed to deliver more relevant ads because you upload your blogs posts through a downloadable AdGenta application called Qumana (where do they come up with these names?). You compose the post in Qumana, click on the advertising button and…
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The lighter side of blogging
The cartoon below by Alex Gregory appeared in the New Yorker on Sept 12th and is now doing the rounds of the blogosphere. Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor of The New Yorker and president of the Cartoon Bank service, which is owned by the New Yorker said of this cartoon: While many cartoons on blogs have…
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3 Ireland should have a blog – cont'd
Michele has written an interesting follow-up to the articles I wrote yesterday on 3 Ireland’s launch here and here. In Michele’s article he compares 3’s launch here with their launch in Italy back in 2002: Prior to the launch in Italy in 2002 the marketing spend was gigantic. Their marketing department had a pre-launch budget…
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Do you allow comments on your blog?
Do you allow comments in your blog? Most bloggers do, but you get the occasional bloggers who don’t, and you have to wonder, why not? What are they afraid of? Receiving feedback from blog readers is a great way to learn from people you might otherwise never come across. A blog without comments is just…