I don’t often blatantly advertise my services on my blog so I hope you will let me off just this one time! I was lying in bed the other day wondering what I could do with myself that morning and I had a genius idea – at least it seemed like a genius idea at …
I’ve recently started to realise that while some people are happy to hand their blogging and social media over to a third party, not everyone is comfortable with that – what they really want is some help to get started doing it for themselves. After giving it some thought I’ve now launched a new service …
Fancy winning one of 9 digital magazine subscriptions – and getting a voucher for a free magazine too? Then read on … If, like me, you own a tablet device you’ll probably find it’s taking over more and more of your life. Just this week alone I’ve used my iPad to type some of my book, draw …
Guest blogger Matt has written an entertaining post on the development of one very specific “language”, Cockney Rhyming Slang. If you’d love to know why I’m eating an Andy in my Baracks when really I should be down the Fatboy, read on! (And make sure you have a go at the quiz that Matt mentions – I scored an …
Having been a pretty active networker for around 5 years now I’ve met people from a wide range of businesses and though I meet some wonderful people, there’s not often an occasion where they tell me about their product or service and it really makes me go, “Wow!” Yet exactly that happened today at 4Networking …
Yesterday I was thrilled to be speaking at A Social Media Insight Day, a new event organised by Ant Hodges of HodgesNet. I’ve known Ant a while now and was really excited when he asked me to run a practical blogging workshop as part of the event. I’ve never run anything like that before – …
In my role as a proofreader/editor I am always really excited to see some of the manuscripts I’ve worked on go through to the publication stage. There’s a certain thrill about seeing someone else’s words on a page or a Kindle screen after spending hours finely tuning them, and when I read reviews that praise the …
The ICO have released a new video on the EU Cookie Law – I think the basic message is that it’s better to do something than nothing!
The forthcoming EU cookie law, which comes into effect on 26th May 2012 means that any company using cookies on their website for anything other than essential functionality needs to request permission from the user to allow cookies to be sent. There are a few ways you can do that. You can include information about …
You’ll probably find it does. Cookies are small text files placed on a visitor’s computer to “remember” their visit. They’re used for all sorts of things from remembering goods in a basket to speeding up the process of leaving blog comments to enabling social media sharing. They’re also used by analytics software such as Google …
