Month: August 2007

  • Skype outage and restoring confidence

    Even if you aren’t a user of Skype, the internet telephone service, you probably won’t have missed seeing or hearing about the total service outage during Thursday and Friday last week. Service came back up over the weekend and today…

  • FIR Interview – Mark Ragan, CEO, Ragan Communications: August 19, 2007

    This interview with Mark Ragan, CEO of Lawrence Ragan Communications, Inc., was conducted on June 7, 2007, at the Ragan/Simply Communicate “Engagement and Social Media” conference in London. Mark asked us to hold the interview when he learned that the…

  • Understanding OpenID is not easy

    Last year, I signed up to get an OpenID. I didn’t fully understand what it could do but I did believe that it would become more important, not to mention useful, to have a means by which you could identify…

  • Speaking at upcoming events

    I updated my list of speaking engagements as there’s quite a lot going on in September into October. I’ll be at these public events: Podcamp UK. Birmingham, England, September 1-2. The UK’s first podcamp. Running an unconference session on business…

  • A feast of WordPress plugins

    If your blog runs on WordPress, take a look at Mashable’s massive list of 300 tools to enhance your blog from both your perspective as a blogger and that of your readers. Plugins are the oil that smooth the running of…