Writing on the web since 2003

Found a great little primer for people looking to promote their websites, courtesy of Forty Media.

Recent research shows media fragmentation is real, and the young are leading the growth of social media, something that marketers and PR people need to understand to be able to do their jobs effectively.

I’ve just finished listening to my first podcast from www.manager-tools.com. The site features literally hundreds of podcasts on management-related topics.

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) … Read More

The latest round of ChangeThis manifestos has just been published, and a couple are particularly interesting for marketing and PR people engaged with social media.

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

Regular readers will know that this site is now hosted by Dreamhost. They’ll also know that since I switched over the availability of the site hasn’t been great, with a number of short and long outages.

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 … Read More

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

Birds Eye has made its first venture into social media with a blog from “pea expert” Colin Wright.