Monthly archive: July 2006
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Sunday, July 30th, 2006 at 9:19 am
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Upgrading to Wordpress 2.0.4
Saturday, July 29th, 2006 at 10:10 pm
The guys over at Wordpress have just released the latest upgrade which takes the system up to version 2.0.4.
Tags: Wordpress
Categories: Wordpress
Birds Eye gets into social media
Saturday, July 29th, 2006 at 7:05 am
Birds Eye has made its first venture into social media with a blog from “pea expert” Colin Wright.
Tags: Marketing, public+relations, social+media
Categories: Marketing, Public relations, Social media
Daily Links
Thursday, July 27th, 2006 at 9:26 am
activeCollab - open source project management and collaboration tool.
Easy to use project management tool - like Basecamp but open source
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PR 2.0 essentials - a necessarily living document
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006 at 6:16 am
Hot on the heels of the social media press release template, the folks over at Shift Communications have published a superb guide to the basics of PR in the social media world.
Tags: public+relations, social+media
Categories: Public relations, Social media
Making the move to Wordpress
Tuesday, July 25th, 2006 at 6:33 am
I have been running this website for around five years now. Over that time it’s evolved from a few simple pages about marketing consultancy services into a much larger beast.
Tags: Software, Textpattern, web+development, Wordpress
Categories: Software, Textpattern, Web development, Wordpress
Developing a new standard for news releases
Tuesday, July 18th, 2006 at 7:34 am
After much debate triggered by Tom Foremski’s post a group is emerging from the global social media and PR community to come up with a new standard for the news release.
Tags: public+relations, social+media
Categories: Public relations, Social media
Immersing yourself in your customers
Sunday, July 16th, 2006 at 10:33 pm
I used to spend a lot of time when I worked at Boots visiting stores to see how people actually shopped, rather than how people in head office thought they did. The value of doing this kind of customer immersion is as important as ever in the digital age.
Tags: customer+experience, Marketing
Categories: Customer experience, Marketing
A more efficient writing tool
Friday, July 14th, 2006 at 1:33 pm
This post by Lee Hopkins struck a chord with me. I really struggle when sitting down to write. I often get diverted by incoming emails or following hyperlinks to less and less relevant websites.
Tags: Software
Categories: Software
Marketing yourself better
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006 at 5:36 am
I’ve recently been involved with the recruitment of a number of marketing roles, and have been amazed how badly marketers market themselves.
Tags: Careers, Marketing, personal+development
Categories: Careers, Marketing, Personal development
New ChangeThis manifesto
Sunday, July 9th, 2006 at 10:00 pm
Meryl K Evans has a new ChangeThis manifesto published called Five Quick Tips to Building a Better Blog.
Tags: public+relations, social+media, web+development
Categories: Public relations, Social media, Web development
Changing world of marketing and PR
Friday, July 7th, 2006 at 10:36 pm
The world in which marketing and PR people operate is changing. And it’s not just slow incremental change. It’s a fundamental shift that will affect how we all operate.
Tags: Marketing, social+media
Categories: Marketing, Social media
New hosting
Monday, July 3rd, 2006 at 1:33 pm
If you’re reading this it means my transfer over to new hosting at Dreamhost is complete.
Tags: web+development
Categories: Web development
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