I was convinced by the argument that it makes more sense to have permalinks on WordPress posts, not the mysterious number with a question mark type URL. However, in the ongoing exercise of me as a non-technical person endeavouring to negotiate WordPress (which some of my colleagues like to say is ‘easy’ – yeah, right!),…
This is really a cross post from my Thinking Home Business blog, but as it’s about a project that has consumed many of my working hours, it seems appropriate to post it here also. Some time last year I started a book, an introduction to business blogging. Eventually I settled on the title 7 Step…
I knew I’d been working for quite a while on my new book on blogging, 7 Step Business Blog. I didn’t realise quite how long. Then a few days ago I was looking for some related information and discovered that it was a year ago, almost to the day, that my friend and colleague, Bill…
This post is a bit of a mixture of the personal and business aspects of my life. It’s personal, because it’s about the apartment of which I am a co-owner and in the process of selling. The apartment is in the Sydney suburb of Arncliffe. And it’s business because, being a blogging evangelist, I thought…
On my desk, alongside my computer, I have a little strip of paper with a statement on it that I notice on a daily basis. The statement includes a question I think I’m supposed to ask myself regularly, a question I find provocative. A friend gave me the piece of paper with the statement and…
I’m setting up a new blog as part of the exercise of launching my new e-book, 7 Step Business Blog. Following my own advice from Chapter 6 of the 7 Step book, Set Up Your Blog, I’ve taken a couple of sheets of paper to work out the strategy for the blogsite. I’m using the…