From the category archives:

One for your toolbox

One for your toolbox: ShareThis Analytics

10 September 2010

Yesterday I posted the start of a mini series ‘Defining the elusive meaningful metric‘, where I discussed: Engagement for me is when someone cares enough about what you have written to such an extent that they felt compelled to do something about it. and Metrics I like to use to understand the effectiveness of online [...]

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One for your toolbox: 4 Community sites you might not have heard of

7 May 2010

So as a break from the UK General Election chatter thats going on, and as it’s Friday, I wanted to bring back ‘One for your toolbox’. This week, I’m listing4 community sites that you might not have heard of. Are they the next big thing? Who can tell… only smarties have the answer – ahem [...]

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One for your toolbox: Qik

2 April 2010

The mobile phone is becoming less of a phone and more of a ‘all in one place’ communication tool. Developers of mobile applications are pushing the boundaries by producing mobile apps that enable people to engage, communicate and share experiences/moments that we would never before dreamed possible by such a small device. One of these [...]

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One for your Toolbox: Paul Weston

27 March 2010

Paul Weston was made redundant in February 2010 and decided to use social media as a way of proactively raising his online profile to find work. And before you say anything… I’m not calling Paul Weston a ‘Tool’ but the way he has been utilising online tools in order to find a new job is [...]

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One for your toolbox: discussing DisQus

19 February 2010

At first glance you might be fooled into thinking that Disqus (pronounced ‘Discuss’) was just another commenting system – but… you’d be mistaken. I thought the same, 9 months ago. Actually, if I’m being honest I originally installed it because it looked better, asthetically speaking, than any of the other options. But now I wouldn’t [...]

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One for your toolbox: VodafoneUK – power of transparency

12 February 2010

What an interesting week it has been. To say it has been busy would be an understatement… But that’s not just from my perspective. It’s been exactly one week since the VodafoneUK twitter posting issue where a worker – not involved with the web team that manages Vodafone’s customer service twitter account – posted a [...]

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One for your toolbox: Get it into your head!

4 February 2010

Effective search engine optimisation involves many factors. And trying to rank highly within search engine result pages (SERPs) is about providing content that is both relevant and informative; with proper page layout and coding. The coding side is generally taken care of by web developers, however, a lot of consideration should be given to your [...]

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One for your toolbox – Ping.fm

29 January 2010

Yesterday I posted a question on Twitter asking “what would you like to read about…” the most popular reply was “what social media tools do I use?” So I thought I’d make Friday’s blog posts a regular feature ‘One for your toolbox’. So, every Friday I’ll review online web based tools and ones that need [...]

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