Chris Garrett - Instablogs
Jun 17 2009
If you are one of the many people supporting the bloggers in Iran, take a moment to read the Cyberwar guide for Iran elections at Boing Boing Do NOT publicise proxy IP’s over twitter, and especially not using the #iranelection hashtag. Security...
Jun 12 2009
Ever feel like you are being manipulated into herd behavior? Facebook is getting a lot of publicity right now about their vanity name deal. I am sure you have seen this already, if not check out this great post by the Facebook Queen, Mari Smith. And...
Jun 5 2009
Over at Copyblogger Brian had an interesting comment thread about, well, blog commenting. In it I offered the sage advice that a comment can become excellent content for your own blog. To prove my point, I wanted to expand on the idea here! Rather than...
Jun 3 2009
Do you want to know how to set up, plan, write and promote a business blog, plus create an audience that loves you, with content that keeps people coming back for more? Well you are in luck! I have written an information-packed 7 day blogging course for...
May 27 2009
One of the best aspects of the Twitter toolset is the fact the team allowed external programmers access to the service so that 3rd party applications and tools could be created. The downside of course is that not everyone has end users best interests at...
May 22 2009
I am a Starbucks fan, and I didn’t know any of the allegations being made … and ironically I think I would have never heard about this bad news stuff if it wasn’t for Starbucks social media campaign … Starbucks idea was to allow...
May 20 2009
Hosting is now largely sold to the blog community as a commodity. Advertising will always focus on one thing, and that of course is the monthly price. Yes “features” will be pushed along with this, such as 1-click installs of WordPress,...
May 15 2009
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May 13 2009
Twitter’s recent change to their @Replies system has caused some controversy. TechCrunch puts it well Gee, thanks Twitter. I didn’t realize that an option I manually activated was undesirable. Any other things I shouldn’t like that you’d...
May 6 2009
Do you measure your blog progress and celebrate your milestones? One of the things I like to do with my coaching and authority blogger course customers is to remind them of their goals and their progress against them. This can be very rewarding and...