Category: Technology

  • Engagement in London

    I’ll be in London for the next couple of days participating in Melcrum’s Strategic Communication Management Summit 2006. Things kick off this afternoon when I’ll be leading a half-day pre-conference workshop with the grand title “How to use social media…

  • More small steps to combat content theft

    It’s growing at an alarming rate and there doesn’t seem to be any way to effectively stop it. I’m talking about content theft, the practice of some people who scrape your content from your blog or website and then republish…

  • Giving life to the social media press release

    Last May, Boston-based social media PR advocate Todd Defren published a social media press release template as a means to encourage and stimulate discussion on effective ways to evolve the traditional press release into a communication channel better suited to…

  • Hurrah! Broadband up!

    Whew, up and running again in the permanently-online way I’ve become addicted accustomed to! Yesterday, the NTL guys arrived at 1pm to install cable broadband and, by 2pm, all was done and ready to rock. Except it didn’t. Service active…

  • Helping Google index your WordPress blog

    If search engine optimization is important to you, you probably already know about Google Sitemaps. Google thinks sitemaps are important: Sitemaps helps speed up the discovery of your pages, which is an important first step in crawling and indexing your…