Trying out search engine optimisation – update
I recently wrote about my beginners attempt at search engine optimisation on my sister-in-laws website. It’s now been five weeks since I gave it a shot and needless to say it’s had varied success. Registering with Google Maps was great as her listing always comes up on a google search for ‘personal trainer aberdeen’ or [...]
Social media at work
It’s become such an everyday term that it’s hard to imagine that ’social media’ only dates back to around July 2006. But here we are a little less than 4 years later and Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and many others have become an everyday activity for millions of people. And where you find millions of people, [...]
My media
I like reading the weekly My Media column in the Guardian and because it’s unlikely that they’ll be asking me any time in the near future I thought I’d do it myself.
Newspapers On a week day I usually read through my office’s copy of the Scotsman or the Herald, depending on who’s got there before me. The [...]
New business ideas
One of my favourite websites is springwise an on-line database of the latest new business ideas from around the world. I don’t tend to visit the actual website because I’m registered for their fantastic weekly email which brings all the week’s latest ideas to my inbox. They source the ideas from a network of around 8,000 ’spotters’ from [...]
What is Social Bookmarking?
Social bookmarking is something that I’ve been aware of for ages now but haven’t really been interested enough to find out about and certainly not interested enough to use, until recently. According to Wikipedia, social bookmarking is a “method for Internet users to share, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web resources.” Still not sure what it is? You’ve [...]