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Fuck you and your blog

loudhail — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:40:37 +0000

I know I haven’t been around here as much as I used to, because I have been over here.

However, I want to share this with you. Last Saturday I was out and about my beautiful home town of Brighton, and I saw (and immediately had to acquire) this awesome journal.

Here’s a picture of the cover.

And here’s a picture of the inside (note that the Comments Section is disabled. Hehehehehe.)

Love this journal. Haven’t used it yet, but surely will start any day now. Go get it for old school blogging i.e. diary writing on – shock horror – paper, without – double shock horror – anyone else reading or commenting it. Wow!

Blog day 08

loudhail — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:45:25 +0000

This is a great institution, and for anyone interested in blogs and blogging – take part this year! 31 August is Blog Day 2008, and this is what’s on the agenda:
1. Find 5 new Blogs that you find interesting
2. Notify the 5 bloggers that you are recommending them as part of BlogDay 2008
3. Write a short description of the Blogs and place a link to the recommended Blogs
4. Post the BlogDay Post (on August 31st) and
5. Add the BlogDay tag using this link:
http://technorati.com/tag/BlogDay2008 and a link to the BlogDay web site at http://www.blogday.org.

Spread the word, find some inspiring blogs, and have fun! I will share what I found with you here.

Seth’s blogging tips

loudhail — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:16:33 +0000

Seth Godin has some short and sweet tips on how to blog. Thought I’d send you there to read them as they are really useful.

He raises a set of interesting questions on the bottom of that post: “What would happen if every single high school student had to have a blog? Or every employee in your company? Or every one of your customers?” I don’t know, but I will think about it. What do you guys reckon?

Workshop review, and some organizational blogging 101 tips

loudhail — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:46:49 +0000

Last week I hosted a workshop about Social Media in the Public Sector. My workshops are not your normal “I am talking – you are listening” gigs (I can’t stand those, that’s why); instead I take the “dinner party” approach: we all sit around a table and have a lively discussion, sans loads of scruptous food and wine (so far at least). I facilitate the conversations and bring up examples, but everyone is encouraged to bring up examples or issues. That way we make sure that the content is relevant and tangible to the participants.

I wanted to express my gratitude to both the morning and the afternoon groups – both sessions were very inspiring and I really enjoyed our discourse. Also, thank you to the Network of Public Communicators, who organised this event with me.

I found a nice post about what you need to consider if you want to start an organizational blog (not strictly for the public sector, but it is very transferrable)- something we discussed during the workshop a fair bit. I wanted to point you, fellow participants, and my valued readers, there. Any thoughts, comments, remarks (about the article, or the workshop)?