Labor's blog-watch plan hits Whirlpool of dissent | watoday.com.au The Government will begin trawling blog sites as part of a new media monitoring strategy, with documents singling out 'whirlpool', a website critical of Communications Minister Stephen Conroy for special mention. Opposition communications spokesman Nick Minchin claimed it was "extreme" and an unacceptable use of taxpayers' [...]
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The Best Widgets and Plugins for Personal and Business Blogs Says Dan Hope over on TopTenReviews.com: "We’ve compiled a short list of blog widgets and blog plugins that are the most useful for people wanting to start a personal blog other those who are creating a blog for their business or industry. Some are useful [...]
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Why is it that the people who are so integral to your psychic dna, cause you so much pain when they die?
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The board had “the right to decide what is and isn’t appropriate” for internet users and “control and sheepify the nation”
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Policy experts predict a Twitter moratorium may be declared for Summer 2009 as part of an effort to stimulate economic production and reverse GDP declines
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Each Proposal Pack has a built-in graphic design and layout which makes writing proposals much more efficient and saves you from the tedious tasks of how to structure and organize your proposal
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60% of Australians believe that the internet has NOT benefited their relationships! More in the Norton Online Report 2009
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I’ve just posted some new articles over at my business communication articles website. Enjoy!
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Being an independent businessman, I am always looking at ways of supplementing my income (legally! ahem).
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Imagine what horror could await the eyes and minds of our innocent young if they were to access images like THESE
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Measuring the Impact and ROI of Social Media - NEW
Making Social Media Work for Your Business
Social Media: The New Communication Landscape - for Ark Group
How to get started with podcasting in your organisation - for Melcrum Publishing
Contributing author to:
Best practices in social media governance
How to use social media to solve critical internal communication issues
How to communicate with hard-to-reach 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!
