Alister Cameron // Blogologist

Changing the world. One blog(ger) at a time.

Tag: Web 2.0

Jeff Pulver dumps LinkedIn for Facebook

18 July 2007 – 3:56 pm

Jeff Pulver (the VoIP guy) has had enough of LinkedIn and is switching all his social networking efforts to Facebook. I’ve never thought much of LinkedIn (sorry, Des!) and I’m more and more impressed with Facebook, so it’s got me thinking…
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A great read on Social Networking and Christian Ministry

10 July 2007 – 2:06 pm

Stephen Shields recently wrote a great article on the uptake of online social networking as a community-building and outreach strategy for the local church. It’s a great read.
Technorati Tags: church, leadnet, faith, christianity, facebook, myspace, social networks, social networking, ministry, christian ministry, christian missions, [...]

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Google’s new BlogRank Authority Index… in my dreams, anyway!

31 May 2007 – 10:35 am

I’ve been meaning for weeks now to write a blog post about how obvious it is to me that Google should buy Feedburner. I mean it’s a total no-brainer.
Last week Google agreed with me.
One of the main reasons I wanted to see that union was to see someone (in this case, Google) in a position [...]

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New design, new network, new title, new underwear!

21 March 2007 – 4:12 pm

I got to bed at 5am this morning. But I put my head on my pillow knowing I had accomplished what I set out to achieve: a new site design which I can be proud to call my own… not a Wordpress theme by someone else.
I’ll quickly summarise all the new stuff that’s going on [...]

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Facelift in progress… sorry about the mess!

20 March 2007 – 5:47 pm

I have been bunkered down for the last 96 hours or so, completely obsessed with a new design for my blog.
At first I wasn’t making much progress, but then things started to flow and, well… it’s been pretty full-on since Saturday. In the next few hours I’m going to start the migration from my development [...]

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How Darren Rowse can convince Internet marketers to blog

6 March 2007 – 1:38 pm

In today’s post, Darren Rowse at Problogger asks:
“If you had the attention of 400 internet marketers for an hour and were given the brief to talk to them about blogging - where would you take the session?”
It’s a great question, and a great opportunity to lay some important points out on the table. And why [...]

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XML-RPC for blog comments: why the heck not?!

20 February 2007 – 2:15 pm

Fairly regularly in the blogosphere you hear people complaining about how few people reading their blog go the next step and leave a comment. I recall that last year, Darren Rowse posted his “10 Techniques to Get More Comments on Your Blog“, linking to a Jakob Nielsen study that found that…
In most online communities, 90% [...]

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Social Media, Blog Rage and the Relational Web

12 February 2007 – 11:56 pm

One of the things I spend quite a bit of my time doing is helping clients and prospects understand the difference between a “regular” website and a social network. I spend a lot of my time arguing in favour of “social media”, in the belief that a social media approach is at the heart of [...]

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Advanced Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Wordpress

5 February 2007 – 12:50 pm

I spent a few hours over the weekend further optimizing my blog for the search engines. This stuff is fairly advanced, so please don’t be dismayed if you don’t follow it all. Ask your clarifying questions in the comments and I’ll answer them. Now, I don’t want to suggest that I have done all that [...]

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Wordpress Plugin: ClassyBody v1.1 Update

2 February 2007 – 9:25 am

I have updated my ClassyBody Wordpress plugin to v1.1 with the addition of ad-hoc custom CSS classes.
To recap, my ClassyBody plugin adds contextually intelligent CSS classes to your BODY tag, giving the more high-powered designers out there much greater control of the CSS of a given Wordpress page. It automatically adds CSS classes telling you [...]

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