General

Somewhere to play

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.

Upgrading to WordPress 2.1

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.

Producing audio and video for the web

A project I’ve been working on recently has involved creating video news shorts and podcasts for the first time. Now both have launched it’s interesting as a professional communicator to reflect on the differences between producing video and audio content .

It's a trust thing

Edelman launched its eighth annual Trust Barometer this morning in London. The survey looks at how well trusted individuals and organisations are among 3,100 “opinion formers” across 18 countries.

Why doesn't the BBC offer full RSS feeds?

There’s much discussion about the merits of publishing full or partial RSS feeds on your website. But I really don’t understand why the BBC doesn’t offer full feeds for their great range of news content.

Introducing house rules

The vast majority of comments posted on this site have been in the general spirit and values that most blogs hold. However I think it’s about time I posted about how I interpret these values and how I’ll apply them to posts, comments and trackbacks here.

British Army to add social networking to site

This week’s UK Marketing magazine covers the forthcoming relaunch of the British Army website, which will for the first time include social networking features, such as blogs, message boards, pictures and video.

Marketing and Google Notebook

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.

On MyBlogLog

One reason I write a blog is to create a network of contacts that I couldn’t have otherwise created. One frustration with blogging has been not knowing who the majority of my blog readers are, and not having a way to connect with them other than through blog posts and comments.