Writing on the web since 2003

Essential skills for listening

Be able to listen, and actively show you’re listening, is a really valuable skill in business. It can help you develop relationships more effectively with colleagues, managers, clients and suppliers.

Blog design – what would you recommend?

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.

Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales and PR people

Last week’s PR Week magazine (UK) features an article about Jimmy Wales, head honcho at Wikipedia, threatening to ban PR agencies and paid PR professionals from editing Wikipedia if they continue to edit entries about clients.

CIPR social media guidelines

With the deadline for responses fast approaching there’s a trickle of PR bloggers responding to the social media consultation from the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR).

For Immediate Release

Yesterday’s post on comparing statistics packages for bloggers has been picked up by podcasters Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz in their For Immediate Release podcast.

Measuring blog engagement – the Fedafi approach

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.