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Archive for January 2007

January 15th, 2007

Goals 2007 And Accommodating Rapid Change

I have to say upfront that I find the whole business of goal-setting a challenge. Always have. As I’m a coach as well as a blogger, that challenge has some special professional resonance. At least I have real empathy for clients who don’t find goal-setting easy.
Maybe a goal for me in 2007 would be to […]

By Des Walsh -- 8 comments

January 15th, 2007

Spam Karma 2 May Be A More Helpful Comment Spam Blocker Than Akismet

I posted yesterday about the comment spam catching WordPress plugin, Akismet. There are other options.
One that I have used and found very effective is Spam Karma 2. The onsite overview states:
Spam Karma 2 (SK2) is an anti-spam plugin for the WordPress blogging platform. It is meant to stop all forms of automated Blog spam effortlessly, […]

By Des Walsh -- 2 comments

January 14th, 2007

Akismet Catches Comment Spam Well But You Might Need to Check

Just as email spam is a scourge of email and a serious hindrance to clear communication via email, comment spam is a scourge of blogging. Businesses getting into blogging need to have some confidence that their site will not be polluted by this comment spam garbage.
A standard plugin for WordPress, the Automattic Kismet, or Akismet […]

By Des Walsh -- 0 comments

January 13th, 2007

Blogging - a Smart Way to Make a Mark in the Travel Industry

This post is about how anyone who lives in any reasonably interesting place anywhere in the world could use blogging  to build a business, without leaving home.
I don’t have any current plans to travel to Seattle, but if and when I am heading there, I will be making sure I read the posts on Mary Jo Manzanares’ The […]

By Des Walsh -- 3 comments

January 12th, 2007

International Blogging

For anyone interested in how the blogosphere is developing beyond (as well as in) the USA, there is a new, freely downloadable and thoroughly absorbing report out, courtesy of Edelman, A Corporate Guide to the Global Blogosphere. The report draws on the Edelman Omnibus Blog Survey conducted by Edelman’s “independent research company, Strategy One”. Countries […]

By Des Walsh -- 0 comments

January 11th, 2007

Protecting Your Ideas in a Business Blog

Talking to business owners about blogging, I find one of the questions that comes up frequently, in a variety of formulations, is about how you can have a business blog without giving away all your good ideas, your intellectual property.
Tags: Gurteen, ideas, intellectual-property, km, Knowledge Management, Risk ManagementShare This

By Des Walsh -- 2 comments

January 10th, 2007

The Best Laid Plans …

There I was with my New Year resolution to post here more frequently and consistently.
I reckoned without a couple of things.
First, all the details to be attended to in publishing an audiobook, comprising a DVD to be shipped and an e-book to be made available for secure download.  The good news is that the Big […]

By Des Walsh -- 0 comments

January 5th, 2007

Group Blogs for Businesses and Business Communities

In the light of some conversations I’ve had with business owners in various fields, I have a hunch - and that’s all - that some of them could be more immediately interested in the business building and staff development possibilities of a group blog, or a blog portal with capacity for individual member blogs and perhaps […]

By Des Walsh -- 2 comments

January 2nd, 2007

5 Things You Might Not Have Known About Me

I have to confess I was only vaguely aware of the blog tagging thing  until over the holiday period I was tagged by Robyn.
Which meant that, if I wanted to play, I had to:

find out what tagging is and how it works
think up five not-known or little-known items about me to include
tag five more people

OK, […]

By Des Walsh -- 6 comments

January 1st, 2007

Shel Israel is Courteous as Well as Smart

Well, I got my posting for the new year off to a great start, didn’t I?
If you are pretty reliable on spell people’s names correctly, then I suppose for authors one of the next good things you can do is to get the titles of their books right.
Yesterday I posted here about Shel Israel’s new […]

By Des Walsh -- 0 comments

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