Archive for March, 2010
Chatroulette – a gamble too far?
So you spin the wheel, land in someone’s home and decide whether or not you like the look of them based on their webcam. It’s brutal. You literally never get a second chance to make a first impression.
Sometimes it’s easy – you see something you wouldn’t even see in a biology lesson and you click [...]
Twitter for Granmas
I was trying to explain social media to my Grandma today.
She’s 82 and very sharp, so I thought that with a bit of patience, she’d get it. I talked her through Facebook and Twitter and even showed her some blogs – she nodded along, asked questions and seemed to grasp the concept. But then she [...]
SEO bit me big time
I’ll never forget the day I was bitten by the SEO bug.
Like most people, I had a vague idea of what search engine optimisation was – it’s keywords and stuff, right? Pay per click – that kind of thing?
Nope. It’s a whole science, based on algorithims and link juice and all sorts of exotic [...]
The Five Tweets of Twitter
Setting up a Twitter account is easy – maintaining it is more difficult and holding onto your followers is the hardest part of all. I’ve noticed that the most successful people or businesses on Twitter use five different types of tweet to hold their audience: the comment, the info, the reply, the retweet and the [...]
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