Simon Wakeman - marketing, public relations and digital communications

Category archive: Software

Top ten mobile applications

Friday, January 18th, 2008 at 8:59 am

My mobile phone is an important part of my connected existence. Here are my top ten mobile applications for using on the move.

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Categories: Mobile, Software

Revealing Map My Tracks

Sunday, January 6th, 2008 at 10:41 pm

We’re about to launch a new service called Map My Tracks - a GPS tracking tool for sportsmen and women.

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Categories: Mobile, News, Software, Web development

First thoughts on the 3 Skypephone

Monday, November 26th, 2007 at 11:41 am

I’ve got my hands on a pair of 3 Skypephones to test out, thanks to the team at 3mobilebuzz.com.

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Categories: Hardware, Mobile, Reviews, Social media, Software

Testing the new Windows Live Writer

Friday, June 1st, 2007 at 10:00 pm

This is my first post using the new beta version of Windows Live Writer - an impressive free offline blog editor.

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Categories: Blogging, Software, Wordpress

Measuring blog engagement - the Fedafi approach

Monday, January 29th, 2007 at 9:38 pm

Gary Reid from Fedafi has some interesting thoughts on a model for measuring engagement in blogging, plus a Wordpress plug-in that is going to help deliver the metrics that make up the model.

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Categories: Blogging, Public relations, RSS, Social media, Software, Statistics, research and analysis, Wordpress

Somewhere to play

Thursday, January 25th, 2007 at 9:48 pm

Running a website means everything that happens on the site takes place in full public view. Any design tweak, software upgrade or testing you do can be seen by anyone who visits your website which can make you look unprofessional if things don’t go according to plan.

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Categories: Blogging, Software, Web development, Wordpress

Marketing and Google Notebook

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007 at 9:19 pm

Google Notebook is a great little tool - it allows you to clip information you find on the web and store it in a central notebook. Here a few ways marketers might be able to make use of it.

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Categories: Marketing, Software

Online collaboration with Thinkature

Saturday, November 11th, 2006 at 8:32 pm

Found a great new online collaboration service today called Thinkature.

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Categories: Software, Web development

IE7 released - RSS goes mainstream

Thursday, October 19th, 2006 at 2:01 pm

Microsoft has today released Internet Explorer 7 for general download.

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Categories: Social media, Software

Writely is no more

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006 at 1:01 pm

The Writely service has now been merged with Google’s spreadsheet system to become the imaginatively named “Google Docs & Spreadsheet”.

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Categories: Software, Web development

Another big step for RSS

Friday, September 29th, 2006 at 6:35 am

Mainstream adoption of RSS took a step forward yesterday when Google launched its Reader product. This is the new version of Google’s RSS reader and includes features like feed discovery and sharing.

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Categories: Social media, Software

Using Writely

Thursday, August 17th, 2006 at 6:42 am

This is my first post that I have written using Writely - an online writing and collaboration tool from Google. The beta launch of the site follows hot on the heels of Google’s online spreadsheets tool.

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Categories: Social media, Software

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.

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Categories: Software, Textpattern, Web development, Wordpress

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.

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Using Google Analytics

Tuesday, November 15th, 2005 at 7:29 pm

A colleague recently pointed me in the direction of “Google Analytics”:http://www.google.com/analytics. It looks like a pretty comprehensive solution for analysing web traffic, including how it reaches your site, and how it converts on the site.

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Categories: Software, Web development

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