by lesley | Apr 25, 2011 | Blogging, PR
The best known microblog is Twitter, but there are others such as identi.ca. and jaiku. If ‘blog’ is short for web log, then a microblog is a very short web log. Twitter launched itself based on asking people to answer the question ‘what are you...
by lesley | Apr 19, 2011 | Blogging
We’ve already talked about posting your blog content in more than one place, but there’s another way to get your words in front of a wider audience. This is about placing the link to your blog in as many places as possible. There are a couple of tools that...
by lesley | Apr 18, 2011 | Blogging
Many people say to me ‘I won’t be able to keep coming up with good content for my blogs’, it’s a perpetual challenge! However, there are a few tricks to generating good content. The first one is to have a dedicated brainstorming session. Get a...
by lesley | Apr 18, 2011 | Blogging
When you’ve written a good blog and posted it on your own blog – is that it? As the daughter of a thrifty Yorkshirewoman, I know how to make a little go a long way so I use one blog for many things. This isn’t the only way to do this, but it is a...
by lesley | Apr 17, 2011 | Blogging
What is a blog? Well, it all started out as an online journal – think Star Trek ‘Captain’s log, stardate June 21st 2315’. Online logs were called ‘web logs’, shortened to ‘blogs’ and that kicked off something that...
by lesley | Apr 6, 2011 | Blogging
Do you know what you want people to do when they’ve looked at each page on your website? Every page should have a purpose, whether that’s to send the reader to another page with more information or to contact you by phone or email, or fill in a form,...