Posts Tagged: Blogs

Biting The Big Apple

As I no longer have a links page or blogroll, I’d like to draw your attention, if I may, to Biting The Big Apple, a great blog written by my friend Stephanie. Stephanie and I worked together for a few years in London, then in 2007 Stephanie made the huge step of moving to New… Continue Reading ›

Search Engine Optimisation Prime

I recently decided to take this blog a little more seriously, and part of that has been to see where my visitors were coming from and to try to increase my visitor numbers through search engine optimisation or SEO. Google Analytics reports that 57% of the visitors to davidhughes.org arrived from a search engine: That’s… Continue Reading ›

WordPress 2.7

A few days ago, I upgraded davidhughes.org to the newly released and latest version of WordPress 2.7. When I saw the first shots of the new dashboard and IA for WordPress 2.7, I was concerned that the changes were too great and perhaps not being done for the right reasons: change for change’s sake. But having… Continue Reading ›

Is Blogging Dead?

There’s been a lot of chatter on Twitter and blogs about Paul Boutin’s Wired article Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004  over the last day or so, but I was most interested in Rory Cellan-Jones’ response Is blogging dead? on the BBC website. Rory clearly believes that blogging is not yet dead and… Continue Reading ›

Social Media Marketing

Thanks to the generosity of my chum Paul Fabretti I was able to attend KMP’s Social Media Marketing seminar earlier this week. There were four talks providing a great introduction to social media and suggestions for ways that businesses can join the conversation. Dave Kinsella started the day with a good introduction to social media.… Continue Reading ›

Writer’s Block

This isn’t one of those “sorry for not blogging for a while, I’ll be back soon” posts, but it is a distant relative. I rather think that I must be coming down with a case of writer’s block; I just don’t seem to have anything I feel the need to write about at the moment.… Continue Reading ›