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1 Twitter account vs 100 twitter accounts

That was one of my slides in Saturday's presentation. It's something I firmly believe in, and I found a really nice example of someone actually doing it: RainToday: How are you using social media at Total Attorneys? Ed Scanlan: We really encourage all our 200+ employees to be completely transparent and to ...

Alt Conference Presentation

On Saturday I spoke at the Alt Conference, and I thought I'd run you through my presentation. I decided to try something really cool, (to me anyway) and live tweet my own preso. I used Sendible for this. It worked really well, barring the fact that I started late and when ...

Display Future Posts in Wordpress

Wordpress has a feature where you can write a post today, and set it to publish at some date and time in the future. There is a way to display the upcoming posts in Wordpress, and a great way to use this feature is to get RSS Subscribers. If people can see ...

Using #Wordpress as a Large CMS

While Wordpress was originally designed as a weblog platform, it's grown to accommodate more and more content, and now has the flexibility of being used as a CMS. The New York Times uses Wordpress for their site, and has done it very very effectively. While Wordpress can accommodate just about any ...

The New #Wordpress 2.8 Widget Interface

Wordpress 2.8 has a few nice new bits and pieces. One of them is the new Widget Interface. Firstly, you can see both your side bars on the rigt. So you don't have the select a side bar and then update. Secondly, you can drap and drop them. Nice ;-) Thirdly, there is ...

Why Do You Blog?

So here's the question: Why Do You Blog? Why bother. It's hard work when you think about it. You have to setup your blog, write content, moderate comments, etc etc etc. So there are a number of reasons we blog, and I'd like to hear from you why you blog. 1. It's personal, and ...

My #FollowFriday Recommendations

@cluckhoff - Runs a PR company in Cape Town, loves gadgets and does brilliant work @MelodyMaker - Cause she's an awesome chick and a good friend @muscalmover - Her music recommendations are the bomb

YouTube Ads

Maybe I'm just slow on the uptake, but I just spotted ads on YouTube Videos: Further ReadingRelated Blogs on YouTube AdsMore YouTube Cannes Young Lions Ads | The Inspiration Room DailyOnline Fundraising Blog » Non-profits, Click Here: YouTube ads for ...YouTube Cannes Young Lions 48 hour ads | The Inspiration Room ...

The #Seacom Cable Has Been Laid

So yesterday a bunch of bloggers / twitterers / journos went and did a site inspection of the Seacom cable. There is a ton of stuff on twitter, you can follow it here. I want to make a couple of observations regading this little Seacom effort. 1. The cable is TINY! I ...

Some Q&A

I don't trust internet marketers I heard that a few times yesterday. Truth is, I don't either. I have seen dozens upon dozens of guys trying to sell some system that makes you money really quickly online. And it's all rubbish. Every time. I've been in this game long enough to know ...