NewRedBook – The Nick Garner Blog

I’m such a fan of WordPress, I’m speaking at the 2010 UK Wordcamp – and I’ve met Matt Mullenweg (founder of wordpress, who I found inspirational). In fact I advocate WP nearly whenever I can for small / medium sites. The bits where WordPress are great on  is flexibility and massive community, so tons of [...]

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Yes the rate of technical change is exponential and unfortunately if you live in the Western hemisphere the future might not be so bright. Well worth 5 minutes of your time: thanks Fi for the vid

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Its a belated post about wordcampUK… The BIG thing was community. WordPress has tons of it. WordPress makes it easier to publish online. This in combination with Google means more useful opinion and information can be found more easily . This free flow of information makes the world a more open place. And that hopefully [...]

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I had been asked to come up with a guiding set of principles for social media. Short is sweet. 1. Be engaging:?  helpful, entertaining, useful, likable. 2. Listen:?  listen to your community. 3. Participate and contribute:?  get in there and get involved in the discussions going on among the blogs and sites of others. 4. [...]

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As ever I’m constantly impressed with wordpress as a versatile and useful blog tool, but did you know it makes a great CMS? In fact wordpress is now my cms of choice for static sites, simply becuse its so easy to install and to configure. And then you have the plugins! This is a villa [...]

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I had a post written about my presentation and mercifully its a positive review! There was a very interesting discussion around SEO, on which I made some notes on this blog. The key message was to make sure your content is well written and interesting. There is still a lot for government to learn about [...]

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