Bit of a blog: Online tools

Are you up or down?

16-09-09 | Posted by: melanie

Let's face it, monitoring your website's uptime isn't a particularly interesting job but it is an important one. You should be in the know if your site goes down and for how long but you can bet your hosting company isn't going to make it their business to tell you. Luckily there are website monitoring services ...

Shorthand blogging in five minutes

11-05-09 | Posted by: melanie

How would you like a blog in five minutes? I recently created one using Tumblr. Even better, it's a free service.Tumblr is like shorthand blogging, you can easily share all the interesting images, videos, links and quotes you find around the web, creating a varied tapestry of content without needing to write time ...

Tools we use

15-04-09 | Posted by: melanie

One of the great things about using the interweb a lot means we come across all sorts of useful tools which help us get things done and manage our projects effectively. Some of these tools we use pretty much every day and most of them we'd have a hard time doing without. Here's a list of just some of them.Project ...

What’s the buzz? Using reputation monitoring to improve your website

07-11-08 | Posted by: melanie

Everyone is talking about ‘buzz’, in fact as someone said, there’s a buzz about buzz. But, what is it and what can it do for you?In the age of the social web not only does everyone have an opinion but often they are publishing it online. Buzz (or reputation) monitoring is the activity of tracking ...

What is RSS?

21-10-08 | Posted by: melanie

An RSS feed is content that can be delivered from a website, often a blog, into an RSS reader. When new content is published the RSS feed reader is notified and downloads the content to be read within the reader. Instead of having to visit all your favourite websites to find updates you can read them all in one ...

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