How to increase traffic to your blog post with social media tools Having talked about all the main places you can promote your blog posts, here I discuss bookmarking sites and a few social media tools that will help you be more productive and effective. Bookmarking sites These are sites like Digg, Delicious and Stumbleupon […]
WordPress Dashboard Wizardry
Navigating the WordPress dashboard maze. I was asked by a good friend, Social Media Queen Nicky Kriel, to deliver a workshop on using the WordPress dashboard at her Social Media Summit event . She’s the author of a the successful book How To Twitter For Business Success and talks about social media on her blog […]
YouTube compilation – winter wonderland
The power of YouTube compilation videos. The last YouTube compilation I posted was two years ago when I shared the BBC Wildlife voiceover clip. Since it’s been below freezing for the last week in the UK, and it’s snowing heavily outside right now, I thought I’d add a bit of humour with this YouTube compilation […]
WordPress Plugins – the good, the bad and the ugly – part 1
The Good WordPress Plugins One of the great things about a self-hosted WordPress blog is that you get to play with a powerful array of plugins. WordPress plugins are small bits of software that can add functionality, provide a better customer experience for your visitors and give you the technology to generate more traffic to […]
From Fear to Fun – the Blogging Experience
The blogging experience of a travel writer If you’ve been wondering why it’s taken me so long to do a post it’s because I’ve been heavily involved in helping one of my clients to set up a great travel blog. What with my current clients, new ones engaging my services, and delivering blogging and social […]
You’ve got to be joking…
A great friend of mine shared a brilliant video via Twitter the other day. Unfortunately it was from wimp.com which means I can’t share it here apart from a link which is at bottom of this post. Here is a similar one from YouTube: Which brings me to the subject of this post – how […]