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Tag: blogging

  • Pepsmedia News: Training Courses on "Blogs & Social Media in Business" in September & October

    In the past year, I’ve been providing in-house training for companies who are approaching blogging and social media with excitement, but need some guidance to ensure they do things right. I’m now opening up the “Intro to Blogs & Social…

  • Five Years of Blogging: Giveaway Winners!

    Earlier this month, I announced that I was giving away five fun gifts to celebrate my blog’s five years. Each of the gifts represents an aspect of my personality and what I’ve been blogging over the years; Geeky, funky, practical,…

  • Five Years of Blogging: Celebrating with some giveaways

    In April, That Canadian Girl celebrated 5 years of bloggy goodness and, yet again, I nearly missed its birthday. Oops! In reality I’ve been blogging for nearly 10 years – a friend kindly hosted my first diary-style site back in…

  • RSS Feeds: Full Fat or Summaries?

    I love RSS and I hate RSS. It’s both one of the most useful tools I’ve ever used; it allows me to catch up with my favourite blogs, keep up with seldom-blogging friends and find inspiration for my own posts.…

  • Valleyrag's Boutin says blogging is dead, I say good riddance!

    Desperate as ever to get a rise out of bloggers, Paul Boutin, of Valleywag fame (or shame, your choice), has been writing in Wired’s Entertainment section that “Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004”. He says “Thinking about launching…

  • Blogging as part of a marketing role: Give it the time it deserves

    In the corporate world, there are more blogs than ever. Along the lines of 70% of Fortune 500 companies will have at least dipped a little toe in it by this year, according to Wikipedia’s utterly incomplete entry. For a…

  • Like the new look?

    Moving from my old unreliable hosting to the rock-solid ServInt VPS hosting we use for pepsmedia clients felt like moving from a studio flat in some dirty backstreet to a Kensington mansion yesterday. So we thought we’d go the whole…

  • Open letter to PR agencies: It doesn't have to be that way, you know…

    Recently, there has been a rise in the number of press releases I’ve received, an observation many bloggers around me have confirmed. But these PR emails are accompanied by intros as uncomfortable as the teenage “Will you go on a…

  • Wikio Top 20 UK Tech Blogs

    The wonderful team at Wikio gave me a sneak preview at the July rankings for the UK Tech blogs. Amongst the ranks are some of the usual suspects and, just off-the-podium, yours truly coming in at #29 30 this month…

  • Cory Doctorow speaking in Cambridge, UK on 22nd July

    Quick post to tell readers that things do happen up here in Cambridge, interesting things! Cory Doctorow is a blogger, science fiction writer and journalist. He is an editor of Boing Boing, the 11th best blog in the world (according…