Simon Wakeman - marketing, public relations and digital communications

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

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

Increasing RSS feed subscriptions

Friday, October 6th, 2006 at 10:32 pm

Inspired by a post by Rohit Bhargava I thought I’d try to make it easier for readers of my blog to add the RSS feed to their favourite feedreader and to their preferred social bookmarking site.

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Categories: Blogging, Marketing, Social media, Web development, Wordpress

Tracking traffic on your blog

Sunday, October 1st, 2006 at 9:31 pm

I’ve always tried to keep an eye on my blog traffic statistics, but a deeper look into the three tools I’ve been using threw up a bit of a surprise.

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Categories: Marketing, Social media, Web development, Wordpress

Today is OneWebDay

Friday, September 22nd, 2006 at 9:27 pm

Today is OneWebDay - “a global day to celebrate online life”. When I heard I did take a few minutes to reflect how the internet has changed the life I lead.

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Categories: Web development, Web strategy

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

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.

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Categories: Public relations, Social media, Web development

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.

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Guy Kawasaki’s feed - lapsing

Friday, June 30th, 2006 at 9:24 am

Among the feeds I read regularly is Signum sine tinnitu by Guy Kawasaki. It looks this morning like something has gone a bit wrong with Guy’s Feedburner feed.

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Categories: Public relations, Social media, Web development

Keeping pace with Web 2.0

Thursday, May 25th, 2006 at 9:28 pm

Over in Australia Lee Hopkins is feeling the frustration of leading adoption of Web 2.0 tools amongst his clients.

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Categories: Public relations, Social media, Web development, Web strategy

Keeping it short and simple

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006 at 9:19 pm

Inspired by 37signals and Matt Weston I’ve been thinking again about my site - how it’s structured, what it looks like and what it actually says.

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Categories: Marketing, Web development, Web strategy

Introducing Technorati tags to Textpattern

Saturday, May 13th, 2006 at 8:40 pm

Figured it was about time I got with the tempo and started using Technorati tags on my posts.

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Categories: Social media, Textpattern, Web development

Why is Flash so bad?

Monday, May 1st, 2006 at 8:44 pm

Building your site mostly or all in Flash is a bad idea. Yet still mistakes are made by big businesses that should know better, most recently River Island.

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Categories: Web development

Textpattern end user manual - updated

Friday, April 7th, 2006 at 6:22 am

Bob Janes has done some further work on my Textpattern end user manual to make it more user friendly.

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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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Award winning Tinderhouse project

Wednesday, November 24th, 2004 at 6:17 pm

The Royal Yachting Association has chosen Whitstable Yacht Club’s website as the winner of the RYA Communications Award – South East region.

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Categories: Business development, News, Web development, Web strategy

Relaunch of www.simonwakeman.com

Friday, August 27th, 2004 at 6:13 pm

I’ve been working hard over the last few weeks to redevelop designs and content for this site.

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Categories: News, Textpattern, Web development

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I blog about marketing, PR and communications, with a focus on new media and how technology can help organisations communicate more effectively.

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