Who are you blogging for?

A key consideration for a blogger is who the blog is being written for. I am going to try my best throughout this post not to use the word ‘audience’, because the people that read blogs are more than that, not least because of the interaction they can have through comments and pings from their … Keep reading

5 things every blog needs

I am trying to come up with a short, snappy list of things that a blog has to have if it is going to have any chance of being successful. I want to limit it to five. So far, I have come up with: Authenticity – your voice has to be genuine Regularity – you … Keep reading

links for 2008-03-03

Circuit Rider 4.0 Conference Round Up Laura’s roundup of the recent circuit riders’ conference. (tags: circuit+riders laura+whitehead) Still a journey for social media Neville Hobson gives some pretty depressing figures on social media usage in the UK. (tags: research socialmedia) “The committee won’t go for it” … and other stories | The Membership Project David … Keep reading

links for 2008-03-02

7 Great Online Image Editing Apps Nice roundup from Mashable (tags: tools online photo editing web free) Developing Rails Applications on Mac OS X Leopard Ruby on Rails is a popular and powerful open source web framework for rapidly creating high-quality web applications to help you keep up with the speed of the Web. Rails … Keep reading