James Byford and Antony Mayfield have blogged about the Technorati/Ogilvy link-up that was announced last week. The main aspect of the announcement itself that stands out to me is that much was said in the respective news releases and posts, but it all meant so little – a hype and jargon overload.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Many bloggers use Feedburner to republish their RSS feeds. Feedburner has now launched a blog statistics service too, but how does it compare to other stats services?

I’ve had my own website at www.simonwakeman.com since 2001. Until January 2006 it featured basic information about me and not a lot else. Over the past twelve months that’s definitely changed.

UK drinks retailer Threshers’ 40% had a discount voucher that circulated the UK blogosphere recently. The experience has some interesting lessons for marketing and PR people about the power of social media tools in creating viral messages.

I spent an interesting day today at GREEN Communications’ Word of Mouth conference at the Dental Institute in London.

In 2005 I published a basic end-user manual for the Textpattern content management system. It’s been downloaded more than 2,000 times since.

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.

Stephen Davies has kicked off a discussion about what it takes to become a great PR consultant. He’s published five tips for starters, and Heather Yaxley has added her thoughts too.

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.

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.

While a trackback or mash-up makes sense to me, I’d bet that most marketers and public relations practictioners wouldn’t know their pings from their podcasts.

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.

Brand Mel?
Post about Mel Gibson and personal branding
(tags: personal+branding)

MySpace Drives Ad Spend
Commentary on advertising spending on social networking sites
(tags: myspace+information)

ChangeThis – Web 2.0
A good primer about the impact of Web 2.0 on businesses and marketing activities
(tags: social+media marketing)

ChangeThis – guide to business blogging
A great primer about why to get into blogging as a marketer
(tags: blogging [...]

Sam Oakley has recently started a new PR blog and has blogged about public sector PR myths.

Lightbox 2.2 plugin
A great plug-in that fades the webpage and displays a linked image over it. Great for lightbox effects
(tags: wordpress)

Wordpress plug-ins database
A resource containing thousands of handy Wordpress plug-ins
(tags: wordpress)

The guys over at Wordpress have just released the latest upgrade which takes the system up to version 2.0.4.

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.