Don’t Write Blogs in Anger

Chances are, now we’re into November, you’re just starting to think about your family Christmas. There’s presents to consider, what to cook, where to spend Christmas Day, who gets to drive to all the parties – and a hundred other potential reasons for a family row.
Whatever rows may crop up in the coming weeks, I [...]

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How to make the most of Facebook pages

Why should you have a Facebook fan page for your blog?
This post makes a few assumptions.  It assumes you are interested in increasing your blog’s audience, be that for the love of creative communication, or because you’ve sold your soul to the PR devil and feel positively euphoric when you see your stats rise.  If [...]

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What you should know about paid-links

There’s a good chance if you blog that you’ll have received at least email in the past couple of months from a company asking for a link on your blog. Link requests tend to fall into one of two categories:
A: The link within a post
This is where a company offers you the opportunity to review [...]

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Should you sell your story to a magazine?

So your marriage has broken down. You’ve lost a child in the most awful circumstances imaginable. You’ve undergone a horrible trauma and someone in your family has got into a lot of trouble.
Are you really sure you want to blog about it?
In recent weeks, I’ve been contacted by an increasing number of bloggers who say [...]

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Can anonymous gossip sites be healthy?

Back in the days when I was a proper journalist, I used to write about terribly serious things. The downside of this is that people have a tendency to take themselves terribly seriously when writing about terribly serious things.
So it was great to have an anonymous industry website called The World’s Leading which used to [...]

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Tips for Bloggers on Working with PRs

The vast majority of the posts I read about bloggers and PRs are really about PRs. They’re lists of what PR execs should and shouldn’t do to engage with bloggers, how to approach bloggers, how to not offend bloggers, how to work with bloggers on Twitter. You get the idea.
This isn’t that post.
This post is [...]

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Journalists, PRs and Twitter

One of the first subjects I wrote about on my old journalism blog, Getting Ink, was media request services.
For the uninitiated, companies such as Response Source and Gorkana allow journalists to submit requests for interviews, information and products, which they then distribute to thousands of PR agencies with relevant clients.
As a journo, it’s a great [...]

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How to Blog Safely

This post was written by More Than Just a Mother:
Would you tell a complete stranger about your new flat screen television, give them your address and helpfully explain you’ll be out each day for the school run? I doubt it, yet many people do just that on their personal blogs. Information security is becoming increasingly [...]

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How to Engage with Bloggers on Twitter

This isn’t just another post telling you how to Tweet. Presuming you can make your fingers hit the keys and form actual words, you pretty much know how to Tweet.
Beyond that, I’m not a big fan of Twitter how-to’s or rules – I reckon Twitter is a platform and it’s totally up to you what [...]

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Well, really. That’s just rude.

The thing about bloggers, you know, is we love to talk.
We talk through our blogs, but then there are forums, networks, Facebook, Twitter, text messages. Heck, last night I spent four hours straight on the phone chatting to three other bloggers about various scandals in the blogging world.
So when an invitation gets sent out by [...]

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