Monday, 21 July, 2008

Civil servants and the social web

I spent an interesting morning last Friday at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, attending a meeting of ‘civil servant bloggers’ – not many of whom, it turned out, actually blogged – to discuss the recent guidelines for online participation. It…

Large female required

I was delighted to be a part of the winning pub quiz team at WordCampUK, not least because it meant that I won a wicked cool dark green WordPress tshirt. I asked the now-legendary quiz host Jon Bounds for a…

links for 2008-07-20

chrisgarrett’s profile » QIK Chris Garrett’s qik page with lots of wordcampuk goodness (tags: wordcamp wordpress chris+garrett qik videoconferencing wordcampuk) Economy Size Geek » Postie WP plugin to make posting by email easier (tags: wordpress plugin blog email postie wordcampuk)

Sunday, 20 July, 2008

Telegraph switches to Google Apps

Been busy at WorkCampUK so haven’t been following my feeds that closely, but my eye was caught by a post written by Shane Richmond, Communities Editor of the Telegraph’s web presence: I’ve been testing Google Apps within the Telegraph for…

Reflections on WordCampUK

I am typing most of this on the train back from Birmingham, where I have been attending WordCampUK, a two day conference on all things to do with the greatest online publishing platform, like, ever. It was great to meet…

Simon Dickson at WordCampUK

Quick notes on Simon Dickson‘s presentation at WordCampUK: Make big change happen in a small way Didn’t intend to be a WP fanboy, but it just turned out to be the best way of doing things Need for a WP…

links for 2008-07-19

PHP « Programming « Portfolio | lesterchan.net WordPress backup plugin, recommended at wordcampuk (tags: wordcampuk wordpress plugin backup) WordPress for iPhone Mmmmmmmmm (tags: apple blog wordpress iphone workcampuk) Sitewide tags pages for WordPress MU This is the initial release of…

Saturday, 19 July, 2008

SEO for WordPress

Here’s some notes from the session at WordCampUK on SEO for WordPress, presented by Nick Garner of Betfair. Will tidy up later with more links and stuff. you can’t hold your website users’ hands the whole time. SEO can make…