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by Brendan
on July 29, 2010 in blogging, blogs, seo
One of the most frequently asked questions when it comes to setting up a business blog, and certainly one which I have been asked on a number of occasions recently, is whether it is better to have a blog as part of your website or to set it up as a separate site on its [...]
by Brendan
on January 29, 2010 in blogs, brands, monitoring, RSS, search, strategy, technology, Twitter, visualisation
Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past week, you’ll know all about the iPad, Apple’s new wunderkit – what it has, what it has not, what it’s for, what it’s not for, and so on. Fortunately, the term ‘iPad’ is very quick and easy to search for. So, it’s a doddle to [...]
by Brendan
on December 23, 2009 in blogs, cloudcomputing, microblogging, monitoring, socialmedia, Twitter
Eurostar is to rail travel what Terminal 5 was to air travel. While Terminal 5 was slowly falling apart, I had the opportunity to put together my first ever monitoring dashboard for people who wanted to track what was going on. Since then I’ve played around a-plenty with dashboards and monitoring systems, so while I [...]
by Brendan
on December 22, 2009 in blogs, cloudcomputing, monitoring, RSS, socialmedia
… it’s so hard writing this blog post I don’t know where to begin. So I’ll begin at the beginning. When we first met I didn’t think you were anything special. You had a nice interface and cute little modules, but I wasn’t bowled over, I must admit. No. It took a while, but then [...]
by Brendan
on August 25, 2009 in blogs, cloudcomputing, measurement, research, socialmedia, trends
The PR Friendly Index has been good to me. I initially compiled it as an ongoing experiment to see how I could ‘measure’ blogs, especially en masse, especially using forms of automation that would make it as easy as possible. The ultimate goal was something along the lines of the Power150, except I had visions [...]
by Brendan
on August 21, 2009 in bloggers, blogging, blogs, personal, RSS, socialmedia
A friend of mine has received recognition for his wildlife blog, Tales from The Wood – The Diary of a Badger Watching Man. It’s well deserved. The blog is very well written, giving unique and fresh insights into aspects of wildlife from a first-person perspective. ‘Badgerman’ – for that is his suitably anonymous online moniker [...]
by Brendan
on May 11, 2009 in bloggers, blogging, blogs, disciplines, measurement, socialmedia, trends
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the PR Friendly Index recently. Given that I’m not working in social media exclusively any more, it’s a pain in the arse to maintain and other indexes do this better (and keep getting better too), I’ve been thinking of scrapping it. However, before doing so, I thought [...]
by Brendan
on April 30, 2009 in blogging, blogs, copywriting, microblogging, personal, PR, RSS, socialmedia
Running a blog about social media and PR is a piece of pie. Just start it up and make the right noises, eventually you wind up with several hundred subscribers. Same with Twitter. What is everyone talking about on Twitter? Mostly social media, it seems to me. So it’s with a sense of satisfaction that [...]