Blogging Tip #5 – Link, link and comment

Linking makes your blog grow in popularity. There are three reasons for this. One, it makes your blog posts more useful if they provide links to what you are talking about, rather than making people hunt stuff out themselves. Second, the people you are linking to will realise you are talking about them and come … Keep reading

Hols

Off on my hols for a week, to somewhere in the North Yorkshire Moors. Am looking forward to it no end. Still, readers of Free as in Beer and LGNewMedia hopefully won’t notice, as I’ve bunged a week’s worth of posts to publish during my absence. Tags: free+as+in+beer, lgnewmedia

Blogging Tips 3 & 4 – Feeds and Niches

Two quite quick items here, so I will cover them together. Feeding frenzy I discussed earlier the importance of the feeds which other blogs produce – so you must make one available for your blog. If you want to be read, you need to make it as easy as possible for people to do so. … Keep reading

Local Government Glossary

I facilitate the Community of Practice for Social Media and Online Collaboration over at the Improvement and Development Agency. We are a pretty new group, though with over 40 members, we aren’t doing too badly. The aim of the group is to introduce people to social media tools and techniques and how they could be … Keep reading