Tomorrow night I will be speaking about blogging at the June Women In Publishing event. I’ll be sharing some of my previous experiences coaching people on blogging, as well as sharing some tips & things to think about before you start, as well as common pitfalls and hurdles – such as dealing with comment spam, [...] Read More
Woohoo – how exciting. Those nice people over at Imagine Publishing have put together a nifty guide called the Blogger’s Handbook, which covers all the major blogging platforms, advice on setting up and designing blogs, and info about how to make blogging work for you. And yours truly is featured on page 114 in their [...] Read More
How to keep your blog going This is the final installment of the ‘How to start blogging’ series, based on the advice, ideas and tips from the London NetSquared Meetup group – a rather nice bunch of bloggers, tech peeps, blog-hopefuls and others who are interested in harnessing the social web for good causes. I’ve [...] Read More
If you feel comfortable with the stuff covered in Part 1 of How to start blogging at work, now we get onto the meaty bits: setting up your blog, getting it going & keeping it going. Preparing to blog Get your manager’s approval Make sure your manager is OK with what you are going to [...] Read More
So you think you want a work blog, but you don’t know how to start. Should it be internal or external? Many authors or one? What will we blog about? Will anyone care? These were the types of questions* that last night’s NetSquared Meetup hoped to answer, so I’m going to recap that conversation while [...] Read More
Whether you are a business, organisation or individual, this question can often be the first hurdle in starting to blog. There are so many blogging platforms out there, it can be confusing to decide which one is right for you. Last night at the first London NetTuesday Meetup, a group of bloggers, possible future bloggers, [...] Read More
I’m looking forward to tonight’s inaugural NetSquared London Meetup: a head-to-head ‘battle’ between the major blog platforms: MovableType, WordPress, Blogger and TypePad. Having evaluated all of these platforms before settling on the final winner for our needs at NESTA (TypePad), and as an avid user and ‘pusher’ of WordPress myself, I am looking forward to [...] Read More