Archive for Bloggers

Google launches new blog search functionality is it the end for Technorati?

Bloggers, Social Media on September 1st, 2010 No Comments

Google has just launched a huge improvement to its blog search section. Previously if you ran a search for a topic it would bring back posts back with your search term in the title. This was useful but it was almost frustrating that you couldn’t search for blogs on a certain topic. However, now the [...]

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A useful tool to help identify influential sites quicker

Bloggers, Social Media on July 5th, 2010 2 Comments

I have written various posts on here before about identifying influential sites but I thought it was worth posting today because I have found a tool to use to make this process a whole load quicker. The Google Chrome SEO plug-in takes all of two minutes to install and is in my opinion brilliant. It [...]

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How to identify a popular blog, my quick and easy tips.

Bloggers, News, Social Media on April 19th, 2010 6 Comments

I have been writing online conversation reports for clients for a number of years now and during that period of time it would be understandable to think that we have seen significant changes in the social channels that are influential in these reports. However, in almost all of the 60+ online conversation reports I have [...]

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Twitter on the acquisition trail and here’s why!

Bloggers, Media, Social Media on April 12th, 2010 3 Comments

So there we all were scratching our heads wondering how Twitter actually made a profit? And then it decided to change its strategy by scouting the world for talent to hire for its new business team to help secure much needed revenue. Well, the announcement was made today that it has acquired Tweetie but I [...]

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My Twitter application launches in beta in 7 days

Bloggers, Marketing, News, Public Relations, Social Media on March 22nd, 2010 2 Comments

UPDATE: This will now be launching around end of April as we have decided to add a few more features following feedback from some Twitter users. A while back I wrote a post about an internet (fashion) community I am involved with (http://www.thefashionpixie.com/) and I said it was just one of several web projects that [...]

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My top ten paramedic blogs

Bloggers, Social Media on September 15th, 2009 2 Comments

Those of you who read my blog regularly will know that I like to share information and sites which could be of interest. So if you are even remotely interested in the medical profession or have just always wondered what paramedics and doctors get up to on a day-to-day basis then this list of blogs [...]

Increase your web traffic by more than half with a blog

Bloggers, Public Relations, Social Media on August 18th, 2009 2 Comments

I read some interesting statistics from a study this morning that has backed up what lots of us working in the social media and online PR world already believed. If you publish regular good quality content on a blogging platform you will get more traffic to your website. In fact, HubSpot is reporting that the [...]

United breaks guitars – video shows the power of social media

Amusing, Bloggers, Social Media on July 23rd, 2009 No Comments

The musician Dave Carroll was taking a trip to Nebraska when he and his band members noticed that their guitars were being broken outside. After complaining to the culprits (United Airlines staff) and getting nowhere he decided to write a song which I have to admit is pretty catchy. It turns out that the song [...]

Like Amir Khan – blogging is making a comeback

Bloggers, Social Media on July 22nd, 2009 3 Comments

I wrote about this topic a while ago now on my blog basically saying that although it had lost it’s novelty factor as the new thing to do online, blogging still has a vital role to play in communications for companies of all sizes. Blogging is still a great way to publish your thoughts and [...]

My top 15 walking blogs (UK)

Bloggers, Social Media on July 15th, 2009 8 Comments

Yesterday, I was searching the web to find a useful list of walking bloggers based in the UK and I couldn’t find much to help apart from a couple of decent walking magazines. So in order to help anyone else who is interested in rambling or hill walking, I thought I would create my own [...]