Have you got a story to tell?
I’m helping to create a new kind of news website. It’s called Nyouse.com and it aims to put you back in the centre of the news. There won’t be journalists or editors. There’s just you and me and everyone else. We are the people and we are the news.
If [...]
I’m pleased to see that visitors to my site and blog spend (on average) 5 minutes here!
Thanks to you for stopping by and reading my words. I’ve recently been compiling my blog posts into permanent content which you might want to check out. Of course, this may take the length of your visit beyond the [...]
I really like this idea, taken from Writing for the Web by Susannah Ross:
“Many people talk about setting up a website or having one. They don’t talk often enough about running or managing one. Having a website is not like having a book or a film to show people. It is more like having a [...]
I experienced a rush of pure geek joy this week when I found my website had been blessed by Google with Page Rank !
My Page Rank of 4 has come after several months of online marketing efforts.
As a copywriter who specialises in writing for the web, it is has been hugely useful to monitor my [...]
If your copy is a load of balls your bounce rate* will be sky-high. Bad copy can affect your bounce rate in a number of ways:
Your visitors may have been expecting something different to what you are offering. Unclear copy can attract the wrong kind of visitor.
Poor grammar or spelling [...]
Have you got a Brighton technology or new media story? Has your organisation got something going on?
Project Brighton wants your news.
Project Brighton is a series of projects and initiatives promoting and supporting the digital community in Brighton.
Project Brighton wants to tell the world about Brighton’s thriving geek community.
I’m going to be blogging for Project Brighton [...]
Don’t hide behind your website. Too many businesses barricade themselves behind a chunky website, giving visitors no easy way to get in touch.
What are they afraid of?
Whenever I struggle to find a telephone number, postal address or email address on a website, I immediately begin to think the owners have something to hide.
If your business [...]
James Wragg’s Planet BNM website collects blog posts from Brighton’s new media bloggers.
Anyone interested in what’s happening in Brighton’s digital scene should take a look. And if you’re blogging new media in Brighton, join the list!
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Our white paper - Blogging for Business - is already gaining an audience.
Raj Anand of Kwiqq put it up on edocr.com - a very useful site that offers free documents - and we’ve already had 955 hits!
If you’re in business of any kind I highly recommend edocr.com; there are tonnes of useful documents available and [...]
If you’re in a band with no name and want some suggestions, check out Band Namr, a nifty new site by Brighton websmith Paul Burgess.
I should warn you that if you find spoonerisms that, when undone, reveal rudeness, you may not want to follow that link.
Many of the band names are hilarious, but given the [...]