The first BBC Manchester Blogging Workshop, part of the BBC Manchester Blog Project, will take place on 6pm on Thursday the 18th of January, 2007. This free two hour workshop is for anyone who wants to learn more about blogging… Continue Reading
A few months ago I went on holiday and left my blog at home. This presented a dilemma for me and I sought, and received, advice from a number of regular readers. I’m not, of course, the first blogger to… Continue Reading
Reuters recent investment of USD $7 million in blog syndication service Pluck is already bearing fruit, with the launch of “related postings” from blogs appearing alongside (actually at the bottom of) Reuters own Health, Technology and Entertainment content. Dean Wright,… Continue Reading
In a recent interview, Martin Fewell, the assistant editor of Channel 4 News, told Journalism.co.uk’s Oliver Luft that: Blogs by journalistic organisations are an opportunity to add value to our core products, television news. We gather a lot more information… Continue Reading
A couple of weeks ago Andrew Grant-Adamson, who teaches journalism at the University of Westminster, kicked off an interesting debate when he asked “What’s the Purpose of Newspaper Blogs?“. That debate drew comment from The Guardian’s Neil Mcintosh, The Telegraph’s… Continue Reading
I’ve always said that brands that want to “do” online community need to find a topic, or a small number of topics, that they can plow all their effort into. There’s no point in trying to do a whole bunch… Continue Reading
Blog stats aren’t, of course, everything. Although I use statcounter on cybersoc.com, I’m a lot more interested in seeing where people came from, and where they go once they’re here, than I am in knowing the shere numbers of visitors.… Continue Reading
Roland Piquepaille who authors the blogs technology trends and blogging for companies, as well as posting to the zdnet emerging technology trends blog and smartmobs, has published his top five guidelines for writing blog posts: Choose an interesting subject Find… Continue Reading
The American mid-term elections are today (Tuesday 07 Nov) and lots of bloggers – and I’m not just talking about the BBC, Daily Kos and Instapundit – are likely to be providing coverage of the elections, last minute campaigning and… Continue Reading
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ll probably have noticed that I’ve recently been auto-publishing my del.icio.us links. Lots of other sites do this and I’ve often found good tid-bits of information through links posts. I try to… Continue Reading