Storytelling is hot right now. As the web has grown and become more and more personalised, storytelling on the web has also transcended its traditional roots into a much more interactive experience. A number of social platforms and digital tools have cropped up which aim to become the campfire of se...

You can't expect every piece of content you create online to be a hit. It takes a while before you recognise the patterns in your writing that have become successful with your readers, that you can use to replicate that success. Ultimately, there's always going to be peaks and troughs in your traffi...

With real time updates being the new lifeblood of the web, it makes sense for traditional bloggers to get in on the act. Just this month Fast Company declared that live blogging may just be "the next great media form". I agree. There's definitely still a place for live blogging events on the w...

Thanks to the web, self-publishing is no longer a pipe dream. Anyone with a rudimentary grasp of writing can have their work published and in their hands literally within a couple of days, ready for distribution. The arduous task of knocking on the doors of publishers, the long drawn out review and...

As bloggers, we are often faced with finding as much information about services and products as we can to create a perfect post. I do my fair share of review posts, but it never fails to amaze me when companies and startups miss the subtle details in their marketing efforts to deliver the informatio...

Many of you regulars will have noticed my posting frequency on this blog, going into hyper drive in the past couple of months. What was previously about one post a week (at best) is now averaging out at about (4.9 posts per week). The different types of content has ranged from easily digestible snap...

URL: http://www.tiki-toki.com Brought to you by ChronoFlo and Webalon, Tiki-Toki is a beautiful web based timeline that allows you to chart your journey through the web chronologically. Following a similar pursuit to Memolane, it's easy to add content directly to your timeline including vide...

Many of you may have already noticed that the URL's I use on this blog and others contain the date. I've been asked by many why I choose to keep this in place, and why I didn't just go for the post title, which by many people's thinking makes more sense for search engines. There are a couple of reas...

Subtle but effective blogging tips. This series of 5 posts explores just some of the tiny things that make a big difference.  Subscribe so you don’t miss out on the next one. Guest posting is an essential part of growing your audience and there are a number of simple things you can do to both ...

Subtle but effective blogging tips. This series of 5 posts explores just some of the tiny things that make a big difference.  Subscribe so you don’t miss out on the next one. Google and other search engines use a number of techniques to find out about new material which makes its way onto the ...