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G'day! Thanks for returning!
Today is the one year anniversary of my blogging.
It all started soooooo long ago (17th March 2005), with a brief and innocent post entitled, ‘Welcome‘
Hi,
Just wanted to welcome you and let you know this blog will update on an irregular basis – because work often gets in the way!
And nothing has changed much since!
Flowers, cards (Amex will do nicely) and chocolates will be graciously accepted.
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Social Media: The New Communication Landscape - for Ark Group
Making Social Media Work for Your Business - currently writing for Ark Group
How to get started with podcasting in your organisation - for Melcrum Publishing
Contributing author to:
How to use social media to solve critical internal communication issues
How to communicate with hard-to-reach employees - for Melcrum Publishing
How to use social media to engage employees - for Melcrum Publishing
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Tactical Transparency by Shel Holtz and John Havens.
A belter of a book and a 'must read' addition to any communicator's bedside reading table if they are serious about introducing social media into their communication plans. It includes a fabulous chapter on transparency and business (hint: you want to photocopy it and give it to your CEO!)
Qualitative Communication Research Methods by Thomas Lindlof and Bryan Taylor.
Not just a book for academics, it's chock-full of great ideas on how to effectively and efficiently research your employees, customers, the marketplace and other stakeholders
The Twitter Book by Tim O'Reilly and Sarah Milstein.
A fabulous book that gives a clear, clean overview of what Twitter is and WHY you should be engaging with it. THEN it goes into depth with so many tips and ideas that they should have sold the book for twice the price!
Practical SEO Copywriting: a ‘must get’ book. My mate Glenn Murray has written a bottler of a new book on search engines and copywriting.
In a cunning twist of bizarre nomenclature, he’s titled it Practical SEO Copywriting. The cheeky little fox! It’s a DIY guide to writing online copy for both human readers AND for that 400kg gorilla we lovingly call ‘Google’.
The danger, Glenn quite rightly …err …writes is that focusing too much attention on all of the supposed SEO ‘tricks of the trade’ will make your copy all but unreadable by the human brain. You know, all that stuff bandied about by the so-called SEO (search engine optimisation) experts: keyword frequency, exact string versus individual words scattered across the page, page length, alt tags, header tags, and so on.
Not that this stuff isn’t important – it all is, and more besides – but Glenn argues persuasively that by far more important is the ability to write copy that people will actually want to read – and link to!
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Contrats! Love your content. Looking forward to more.
Happy 1st Lee. When you come to DC I’ll treat you to a drink.
Thanks Andrea! The offer will be graciously accepted!
If a man makes his first blog post when all other men are in the pub drinking green beer to remember St. Patrick, is it still a first post?
Congrats, sir, or a not-insignificant milestone!
Your Australian cheque is, uhm, in the mail.
Happy burfdy Lee. Loved the ‘stop the internet I want to get off’ post. Keep up the good work
And we are all the better for you being here, Lee. Here’s to a year filled with more thought-provoking posts from you.
Congrats!
Put another shrimp on the barbie.
Congratulations, Lee!
Happy Birthday Lee. Wasn’t that a fun year?
Hey, Sab! Thanks, mate!! ‘Fun’? Well, kinda — it’s been a roller coaster, and a very fast one at that. But at the end of the day, on reflection, yeah it HAS been fun
Wouldn’t have missed it for the world…
How’s life in the German fast lane?
It is fast. I just launched a corporate blog for one of my customers, finally answering your question how I use six Moleskine notebooks at the same time…
I have this page bookmarked, since my blog-b-day is coming soon, too. Are there online astro signs
Let me know in advance when your birthday is coming up and I’ll blog it! Congrats on the corporate blog: yes, I am starting to see how you need so many moleskines!!
I blew the advance notice – it’s today…Good day it seems, just added a new small Moleskine…
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