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Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category

When Celebrity Blogging Goes Wrong: The Rosespace Affair

Roseanne Barr, the comedian most famous for the hit show Roseanne, has hit the headlines for the first time in years over what we’re calling The Rosespace affair.
Over the weekend a number of posts appeared on her MySpace page with messages such as “I need to stop drinking, but I do not wish to … […]

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100 Tips To Improve Your Life

It seems as though every blog and his/her mother are creating these top ten, 50 best, 1000 greatest articles. They’re old tried and tested ways of engaging your readers or viewers, creating conversation and reaction. I’ve listed a few of the recent ones on this blog, but here’s another one!
100 Tips to Improve Your Life
This […]

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3 Months Of Blogging

It seems incredible, but we’ve been blogging now for 3 months. Incredible because whilst it only seems like yesterday that we launched the blog, we’ve also covered an incredible amount of ground.
To mark this 1st quarter of blogging, and in the spirit of openness that should characterise any such enterprise, we’ve decided to share our […]

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Jakob Nielsen Doesn’t Understand Blogs

Usability ‘guru’ Jakob Nielsen has written a blog post article on his blog news section entitled Write Articles, Not Blog Posts. Essentially he argues that businesses should not ‘waste’ their time writing short blog posts, but should instead invest time in creating high quality content (i.e. long articles).
There’s a good discussion over on the Guardian […]

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Good To See You Alan!

Last night brought the fantastic news that kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston had been freed in Gaza. You can find in-depth coverage on the BBC, who had dedicated so much effort to ensuring their employee’s safe release.
Whilst I am under no sort of self-delusion that our post on this had anything to do with his […]

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Does Bad Grammar Damage Business?

Here at Altogether we like to think of ourselves as being active participants in community of people & companies who blog around the issues of SEO & the internet. As part of this I occasionally contribute posts to the UGC section of SEOmoz.
My most recent post was about the effect that bad grammar on professional […]

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If Bloggers Aren’t Reliable, What Does That Make Interest Groups?

Continuing my challenge for the title of “Most unwieldy headline on a blog”, this post was inspired after watching the BBC’s Breakfast programme this morning. It included a number of items on serious issues, where the people invited in to discuss the issues were from interest groups.
Now, there’s nothing new with that you may think, […]

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A Practical Example of Affiliate Marketing with Widgets

If you’re reading this blog then the chances are you know what widgets are and you may well have heard it suggested that 2007 would be the “Year of the Widget”. We’re a big fan of them here at eyefall but it’s often been suggested that they are just “nice to haves” and […]

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Get eyefall On Your Site

If you’re looking to keep up to date with all the latest developments in search engine optimisation, PPC & Web 2.0 then look no further. We’ve now got a handy little widget, courtesy of widgetbox, which you can add to your own blog or site.
The widget (which you can see in the right hand column) […]

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Download Wordpress with themes and plugins preinstalled

As the resident geek and wordpress expert I have often screamed in frustration at how themes and plugins take so long to select, download and install so decided to do something about it.
I have put together a wordpress installation with around 40 themes and 30 plugins based on the lists from Hongkiat and Staska.
Download the […]

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