Archive for the ‘Business Blogs’ Category
I like to follow big profile, successful business people on the web to see how they do it. I can’t be alone there. I find biographies, especially about people who weather tough circumstances and pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, to be very inspirational. So it’s not a surprise that I came across this [...]
Today I discovered a great link to a useful site for small businesses. Well, it’s not small business only, but that was why I was attracted to it in the first place. There’s plenty about virtual business, blogging and freelancing keep a lot of you contractors and consultants busy too. The URL is http://www.themiddleshelf.com. Check [...]
Another Reason to Look at Content Strategy
It seems that even during a serious recession, some fields are still thriving. Although this is always true in a large sense, who would have thought this would apply to our own newly developed area called Content Strategy? But it’s true, according to the statistics compiled by SimplyHired, Content Strategy jobs were up by 79% [...]
What is “Content” anyway?
The new thinking called “Content Strategy” is making a big impression on Technical Communications. It’s all so new, I’m still struggling with trying to define it myself. But Rahel Bailie of Intentional Design, Vancouver, Canada, can make it all sound so natural – and even easy. I personally think she is a big thing coming [...]
Is Your Blog On Topic?
There’s no doubting blogs are great, search engines love the fresh content delivered by them and they are readily devoured and pinged as new posts are added. This has a great search engine optimisation effect for many blogs with many, including mine enjoying strong rankings across search engines for key terms. It is for this [...]
Chrome OS
I’ve made a few Freudian about Chrome recently, calling it an OS, when I meant browser. Well guess, what: Google has announced the release of the Chrome OS, ladies and gentlemen! This is something to look forward to. This from the Official Google Blog: “The (current) operating systems that browsers run on were designed in [...]
Blogging is fantastic!
I just attended a fabulous technical communications conference for the TransAlpine chapter of the Society for Technical Commication in Vienna, Austria. We learned a lot about blogging and WordPress from some real pros. (And I just happen to be the president of the organisation this year.) The Society for Technical Communication (STC) is the world’s [...]