What does a typical blog consist of?
Read MoreTerry Two Minute Tips, by Terry Freedman. Not all of these tips are two minutes long, but numeracy was never my strong point.
Want to blog? Develop a thick skin
My key messages to would-be bloggers.
Read More7 things to blog about back in school
One of the possibly unwanted tasks on return to school is to get your school blog up and running again. Assuming that it’s been in hibernation over the summer break, no doubt you’ll want to start posting again as soon as possible. It may be hard to think about what to write about when you have a zillion other things to think about at the beginning of term. So here are some ideas to get the creative juices flowing again.
My First Blog Post
As far as I can ascertain, this was my very first blog post. (Not my very first online writing, which had been published around seven years earlier.)
The sad thing is that nothing has changed -- except for the fact that I now receive even more of these inane messages!
22:13 2002-05-22
Make a note of thisToday I had a great email. It started: "Hi [firstname]," and then went on to tell me how this product could make me loads of money.
I should have thought the first step in making pots of money is to find out basic things like your target's name, and perhaps the second thing would be to make sure the mail-merge works.
That's one company that won't be getting my custom (along with all the others whose emails are automatically dumped in my Trash folder -- but that's another story!)