Secret Santa!

Just received my Bloggers Secret Santa present in the post and although it’s only the 16th, I couldn’t resist opening it and having a look. Happily, I received one of the books I’d been eyeing for a while. A lovely addition to my rapidly growing cookbook collection. Thanks Santa!

Noli Sinere Te Ab Improbis Opprimi

It’s funny how one little comment (in this case, from an online troll or keyboard warrior, as Will refers to them) can make you stumble and throw you off your stride. Unhappily, that’s what’s happened to me this past week. A vicious combination of blog comments (thankfully filtered through comment moderation) and emails, made me [...]

Thinking About Why I Blog

 Is it for vanity? Is it to have a soapbox? Is it a derivative of the diaries I used to keep when I was a teenager? I expect every regular blogger gets to a point where they start thinking about why they bother.  Brazen Careerist recently ran a contest asking their community about how blogging [...]

Is Blogging Still Word of Mouth on Steroids?

As part of an initiative that’s just begun at work, I’ve begun to regularly to read and review books related to marketing, the Internet and PR. I’m currently in the midst of reading Naked Conversations by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel and although it was published in mid-2006, it still makes for fascinating and relevant reading. [...]

Me As A Brand

I recently had my yearly appraisal and while not a hugely exciting event, one of the many objectives I was given really got me thinking. After being told I needed to raise my external profile but not really given any direction on how to do this, I spent a lot of time pondering and looking [...]

First things first…

This is the obligatory first post and me dipping my toe into the world of blogging. Blogs are funny things, aren’t they? Ultimately, they’re tools for self-promotion, a soapbox and a space for you to shout as loud and as often as you want about anything and everything. There are people who do it well [...]

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