Seen recently in the blogosphere

by Gillian Pritchett on September 4, 2010

Protecting your website – those of use with a website (or two) would do well to read a blog post by Jessica Mathews in which she strongly advises having a Terms of Use Policy and a Privacy Policy posted on your website.  Once you’ve read the post don’t just think “yeah I must do that” – go and do it – write that Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and post them on your website. Here’s the link to her post Is your website puttng you at risk?

Hubspot are offering a free report on Social Media, Blog and Search Engine activity by industry. It’s great on advice about which social media platforms to be focusing and the strategies to adopt. You can download the report here.

For those of you with a Wordpress website or blog head over to the Social Media Examinerand read the guest post by Denise Wakeman on 24 impressive blog plug-ins. Denise is a well-respected blogging expert so this post is worth checking out.

How often do you blog ? How often do you think you should blog ? Grant Grifffiths addresses this much debated question in his blog post rather unoriginally entitled:  How often should I post to my blog ? nonetheless it is a post worth reading.

Following on from this I found Chris Brogan’s post on Numbers that matter very apt. Chris wrote the post following someone expressing concern about their numbers on Facebook and indeed everywhere you turn you find someone stressing about how many friends they have on Facebook, how many followers on Twitter and so on and so on. Some of the numbers that Chris thinks are worth worrying about include:

  • Number of smiles you caused today
  • Number of times you promoted someone else
  • Number of ways you encouraged others today
  • Number of times you took a break for yourself
  • Worth thinking about eh ?

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    Does your business need a plumber ?

    August 28, 2010

    Well of course you need a plumber to install a new bathroom, fix a dripping tap or to switch off water gushing from a burst pipe but I was thinking more of money leaks from your business – when YOU need to be your own plumber stopping those money leaks – and trust me – [...]

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    Find your brilliance

    August 12, 2010

    John Williams, author of  Screw Work, Let’s Play: How to do what you love and get paid for it sent me an email the other day (I guess I signed up for something at some point). He’d been inspired to write it following a holiday at a wondeful boutique hotel in Sicily.
    I’ve extracted the following [...]

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    Recently seen in the blogosphere

    August 11, 2010

    Blogging Tips carried a guest post by Charnita France who seems to always come up with great suggestions on internet tools. This time she talked about the benefits of using Spyvo to manage reminders and keywords: Quickly Manage your Reminders and Alerts with Spyvo.

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    Lessons from the demise of Google Wave

    August 8, 2010

    As many of you probably know, Google announced last week that it was ending development of Google Wave – not a complete surprise – in fact in truth I, like many others, had forgotten all about it. It sounded so promising when it first appeared but never really gained traction. It was supposed to replace email and IM but [...]

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