Simon Wakeman - marketing, public relations and digital communications

Launching Behind the Spin online

Monday, April 7th, 2008 at 8:13 pm

Last week I launched the new website for public relations magazine Behind the Spin.

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Categories: CIPR Diploma, Public relations, Web development

Building a website using the Wordpress content management system

Monday, September 24th, 2007 at 10:09 pm

Find out how I built a website for the British Marine Electronics Association using the Wordpress content management system.

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Categories: Web development, Wordpress

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

Upgrading to Wordpress 2.1.2

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007 at 7:38 pm

I’ve just upgraded the blog to run the latest version of Wordpress - v2.1.2 - which was released yesterday.

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Redesigned website goes live

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007 at 7:25 am

It’s been a busy few evenings as I’ve been working hard to get my new website design live, and now it’s here.

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Categories: Blogging, News, Wordpress

Blog design - what would you recommend?

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007 at 7:47 am

It’s been almost two years since I did any design work on my blog. In that time the design has moved quite a long way away from the original look and feel, thanks to the addition of various new widgets and Wordpress plug-ins. I think it’s time to spruce things up a bit.

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Categories: Blogging, Branding, Web development, 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

Comparing Google Analytics, Statcounter and Feedburner Site Stats

Sunday, January 28th, 2007 at 9:20 pm

I have three different website statistics packages running on my blog - Google Analytics, Statcounter and Feedburner. Here’s what I think of each and why.

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Categories: Blogging, Web development

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

Upgrading to Wordpress 2.1

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007 at 8:59 pm

I’ve just upgraded to Wordpress 2.1. The upgrade process itself was fine, but my first test post disappeared so this is my second attempt.

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Categories: Blogging, Wordpress

Upgraded to Wordpress 2.0.5

Sunday, November 26th, 2006 at 9:29 pm

I run my website and blog using Wordpress - it’s a great content management system as it’s easy to use, extremely versatile and has an unbeatable price.

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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

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.

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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

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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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