Blogging
The following is a vague approximation of what I said when I was asked to speak at Travel Blog Camp 2010, to a room full of bloggers, journalists, editors, PRs and travel company owners. At least I think it’s what I said – what actually came out of my mouth may have been a stream-of [...]
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What follows is, roughly, what I said in my presentation at Travel Blog Camp in London earlier this week. Other aspects of the speech – ‘What blogging and tweeting has done for me’ and ‘What journalists, bloggers and marketers can learn from each other’ can be found on separate pages. Monetising Grumpy Traveller I’ve tried [...]
What follows is, roughly, what I said in my presentation at Travel Blog Camp 2010 in London earlier this week. Other aspects of the speech – ‘What blogging and tweeting has done for me’ and ‘Models for monetising blogs’ can be found on separate pages. Outdated labels I’m a firm believer in the need to [...]
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For those who missed it, Google announced a major change to how its search engine works yesterday. It’ll be rolled out gradually, and only for those with the most up-to-date web browsers. Essentially what will happen is that the search results will update as you type, with suggested search terms appearing in the search box [...]
The freebie debate The debate about whether journalists and bloggers should accept freebies is so old and hoary that I’m reluctant to bring it up again. But my recent experience in Germany shed a bit of new light on it for me, so tough, back to the well-chewed territory… For those not in the know, [...]
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Round the world trip As some of my regular readers may be aware, I recently spent two months travelling around Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Singapore. I was on a somewhat whistlestop round-the-world trip, and I primarily did it because I had a number of commissions for various clients in the UK and Australia. [...]
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You’re currently reading the third draft of this post. It was initially designed as a name-and-shame hatchet job. I rewrote it once because I felt it may be a tad unfair, and I rewrote it a second time because I felt it may be a little hypocritical. In the process, I’ve become horribly confused about [...]
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Corrections My previous post – Bloggers vs Journalists: Why bloggers are second class citizens – seems to have stirred up quite a debate. There are a few things that have been brought to my attention since that I thought I should add. First of all (and somewhat going against my argument), it seems as though [...]
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Or The Curse of the Woman Who Didn’t Know When To Shut Up. Difference between bloggers and journalists A few weeks ago, the ever-excellent Matthew Teller hosted a debate on his blog about the difference between bloggers and journalists. It’s something of a hoary old debate, but some excellent points were raised. Key amongst [...]
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Reluctance to join Twitter I was extremely reluctant to join Twitter. As with many who have an antipathy towards it, I thought it was a place for self-obsessed morons to blather about what they had for breakfast. I didn’t know what it was for – and in a way I still don’t, but I have [...]
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