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Full story: Blogging simplified with WordPress 2.5
I’ve upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.5, the latest version of the content management system released yesterday. For me, upgrading was simplicity itself as I used the 1-click install procedure provided by my hosting service, DreamHost. Literally one click and, fifteen minutes later, the blog is upgraded. Of course, you do need to do some advance preparations before clicking that button; more on that in a minute. The first thing you notice about WordPress 2.5 is the spiffy new look…
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Full story: The failure of BA’s T5 promise
Watching the unfolding PR disaster for British Airways over the catastrophe surrounding the new Terminal 5 at Heathrow airport during the past 48 hours, one word springs to mind. Expectations. For the past day and a half, the newspapers and TV news have been full of images of chaos at T5: cancelled flights, nightmare baggage handling (BA already has a pretty poor track record with baggage handling), passengers sleeping overnight in the terminal building, confused employees, angry travellers, and so…
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Full story: Cuts from FIR #331
Overflow from FIR #331 on March 27: 1-Minute News Forrester opens technographic data The real roadblocks to data portability on social networks Download FIR Cuts MP3s – Technographic (2:54) | Portability (4:58). If you want to automatically receive FIR Cuts as they’re published, subscribe to the RSS feed. (What are FIR Cuts?)
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Full story: The Hobson & Holtz Report – Podcast #331: March 27, 2008
Content summary: New FIR Book Review and FIR Interview podcasts coming in April; next FIR Live on BlogTalk Radio in planning; discussion: pros and cons of social media for small/medium business; Dan York reports on FriendFeed, the dark side of the internet, and more; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; lawsuit filed against Cisco for employee blogger posts; bad PR practice isn’t about new media training; Bell Canada’s internal ‘blog jams’; advertising: URLs out, search boxes in; listeners’ comments discussion;…











