The term <strong>Blog</strong> is derived from the term “Web Log” and is pretty much a word in it's own right.
A Blog is a web site, often refereed to as a <strong>Blog</strong> Site, set up for a person or business so that they can write or “blog” regular posts or articles and publish these to the web with relative ease.
Blogging has become very popular over the last few years and with more and more bloggers emerging every day writing a blog for your business is a fast effective way of reaching your audience as well as helping to improve the presence of your business on the web.
There are a number of different blogging platforms and tools out there so whether you are creating a stand alone blog site or want to incorporate a blog in to your existing web site the chance are that setting up your blog will not be as labour intensive as you may have thought.
It looks like Google can retain its bidding advantage on keywords, so companies cannot restrict bidding on their brand names. It looks like if you want to protect your brand you’ll have to sue each company separately through the national courts. A real piece of non legislation.
Google has won a long-running court battle over its use of trademarked brand names in its AdWords platform.
- Read more about Moo talk: The Chris Brogan Interview – where we talk fame, ROI & social media for B2B
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For those of you who don’t know, Chris Brogan is one of the world’s leading figures in social media. In his own words he’s ‘an eleven year veteran of using social media and both web and mobile technologies to build digital relationships for businesses, organizations, and individuals.’
Type: New Web Development, Blogs, Traffic Building, integration with Twitter, FaceBook and Google News
Date: January 2009 - further upgrades September 2009
Background
News agency Sportsbeat approached Tigerfish with the spec to build an ambitious news site to hold the many articles their teams write daily. The original aim of the site was to just focus on Olympic news, but over time it has evolved to host a whole lot more.
The original brief was to provide news, blogs and features in a well categorised manner alongside a solid commenting system.
Type: New web development
Date: June 2009
Background
Tower Hamlets College wanted to set up a site to help people being made redundant get back into work. The main aim of the site was to promote the courses run by the college, along with several partner training organisations.
It also needed to provide guides and information to help people who are being made redundant or employers being forced to make people redundant. The site came at the height of the recession and needed to be put in place quickly.
- Read more about Eyes Down! Social Media… every day 24/7/365! But is it worth it? Hell Yeah
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So far (and I mean so far, as I have absolutely no intention of changing) most of us reading this will spend an average of 2 – 5 hours each today embroiled in looking at our tweetdeck columns, iphone social media apps, favourite blogs, You tube links and/or leaving comments and thoughts across the world wide web.
And the reason we do this is what exactly?
- Read more about Glenn Le Santo Interview, where we talk about social media fear, Jamaican records, tweeting pillows & much more…
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We had a recurring problem recently on one of our Drupal 6 e-commerce developments where Ubercart 2 content types were disappearing. We would create an Ubercart product class, which would in turn create a Drupal content type, assign a few CCK fields to it, and set it up how we wanted to. Alas, each time we cleared the cache, it was gone!
We recently had reason to delete over a thousand Drupal 6 nodes of the same type, but we wanted to leave all other content on the site intact.
The thought immediately came to mind that we could just run a SQL statement like DELETE FROM {node} WHERE type = 'news' but this has some obvious problems. This would delete the nodes but not notify Drupal that they had been deleted, so the search index would not be updated, the CCK fields attached to the nodes would still be there, and any other modules would not have a chance to react to the deletion.
Today we're pleased to be able to offer a new administration interface to our customers with Drupal sites. From the years of experience we've gained in running Drupal sites with powerful administration systems, we learned what works well and what works less well, so we've put together an interface that we think makes a big leap forwards. Take a look:
