Happy New Year… and your Blogging New Year Resolutions

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I would like to wish everybody a Happy New Year. I wish the best of everything for you all both professionally and personally in 2011. As I look back on the successes (and, yes… failures) of 2010 it’s the people I shared the journey with that made the journey worth taking. The joy – and [...]

Email subscription form in your RSS feed?

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I read an interesting thread today on a blogger forum regarding both the need to convert RSS subscribers into mail subscribers, and how an RSS feed could potentially be monetised (or marketed) beyond typical adverts. Personally, I very, very rarely click on advertising in RSS feeds simply because the destination websites aren’t usually compatible with [...]

Oprah and the ‘Big Mac for Comment’

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In one of the smarter moves that Aussie tourism has made in recent years, they’ve just flown a lucky group of Oprah audience members to Australia. Oprah’s now officially on her way to Australia in the comfort of private jet while the rest of her entourage arrived in Sydney this morning. The plan to convert [...]

How to set up a Facebook ‘fan’ page

A Facebook fan page is one of the most productive means of driving traffic to your website or business. Any person that is prepared to ‘fan’ or ‘like’ your website is inviting your stream of messages into their social life. Your posts will be delivered alongside those of their friends and family – not unlike [...]

My take on Short URL Services – Protect Your Brand!

You would have be living under a rock if you weren’t familiar with services that truncate long URL’s into shorter, more manageable links. For those of you that don’t know what they are, they take a loooong URL and shorten them down to fewer characters so they can be more easily managed for dissemination or [...]

Heidi’s Video Confession – Sex, Lies and YouTube

A couple of days ago I wrote a blog about a crazy girl going by the name of ‘Heidi Clarke’ who was in search of a man she inappropriately flirted with over breakfast in a Sydney café after she was mistakenly served the man’s meal. When the man left the cafe he left his jacket [...]

Heidi: Full Viral Jacket

The Sunday Telegraph reported a story on, well, Sunday, about a 24-year-old Elizabeth Bay (Eastern Suburbs of Sydney) shop assistant by the name of Heidi. The ‘story’ as it was reported tells us that Heidi was at a Sydney cafe when she was served the meal belonging to a male patron. She strutted over to [...]