What is a blog?
A blog … is more an ongoing conversation you have with prospects and clients
Rich Brooks
That’s the question most people still ask when you start talking about blogging: What is a blog? The rise of blogging associated applications for personal use, MySpace being a good example, often means that there is confusion between the blog itself [...]
More More More
Finally, Pete is blogging. It’s taking time for blogging to catch on over here in good old blighty but gradually people are starting to get it.
Blogging Evolution
I’ve finally gone and done it; I’ve been putting off moving to a stand alone blogging platform for a while now, largely owing to the additional costs that come with adding a MySQL server to my hosting package, but working around Blogger finally became a little too much.
The final straw was categories. My ‘convenient’ solution [...]
Postcodes zipcodes open access
David Tebbutt has an interesting post about the requirement to pay, in the UK, for access to “basic Data” such as Post Codes. The gist of the argument, as I understand it, is that having to pay for data that is free in the US puts UK companies at a disadvantage when developing for the [...]
Let them eat cake
Good marketing is about knowing what your customer wants, and giving it to them. This could be more information to help them decide, clarity on how the product gives them value or just a reassurance that you can deliver.I came across a good example of this today. I’ve been looking around at the facilities offered [...]
Naked Conversations
I just finished reading this book: Naked Conversations by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel and I would definitely recommend this book to anyone thinking of starting a blog.
The authors clearly communicate a balanced view of blogs. Not just the hype that we all know and love but the problems as well. There are clear pitfalls [...]