New Ross Chamber Business Awards deadline this Friday

Posted on 09. Feb, 2012 by in Entrepreneurship, Wexford

One month from today, on Friday 9 March New Ross Chamber will hold its annual awards. Tomorrow is the closing date. Getting your act in gear to type or cut and paste relevant information into the award forms could help raise the profile of your business or community organisation at a local level. The FBD Business [...]

Trust with a capital T: a keyword in the copywriting process

Posted on 17. Nov, 2011 by in Blogging, Branding, Copywriting, Internet Marketing, Journalism, Online Marketing, SEO, Writing

Trust is the keyword in our business. We know clients often choose to work with us because they don’t have the time or skills to write material for their websites in house. Indeed many clients don’t even have the time to sign off on what we’ve written for them. So where does trust come into [...]

Does ‘brand journalism’ have a part to play in your digital marketing strategy?

Posted on 09. Nov, 2011 by in Blogging, Brand Journalism, Branding, Copywriting, Journalism, Writing

We often get approached by clients to write articles or blog posts for them that they can share in ezines or on social media. Having an original piece of material to share that’s hosted on your blog, resources or news section that’s of interest to your target audience is a great way to bring people [...]

Cropping and resizing

Posted on 07. Nov, 2011 by in Blogging, content management system, Photography, Web Design

Imagine you’re back in primary school. There’s some child-friendly glue, child friendly scissors, a scrapbook and a furrow across your brow as you so carefully try to cut a photo from a magazine or comic down to size to fit in with your collage. Okay, I don’t remember doing that but maybe someone somewhere will [...]

Have a Facebook page? Maybe it’s time to help businesses who don’t.

Posted on 06. Nov, 2011 by in Facebook

Messing around on Facebook lately I stumbled upon Facebook Places Editor. It invited me to contribute details for places in my town, New Ross. I think it’s a great idea.

Top 10 words coined in Twittersphere, have only heard of no. 10

Posted on 07. Sep, 2011 by in Blogging

Source @theipaperHonestly have only heard no. 10 used before.

We love words so much we drink out of wordy mugs

Posted on 27. Jul, 2011 by in Blogging

See the full gallery on Posterous We’re such word nerds here that Elaine received a Scrabble mug as a pressie. We just need to get the full set, spelling out Web Content Partners!

Trekking is not spelled trecking

Posted on 27. Jun, 2011 by in Blogging

It’s always good to get someone to look over your work so you don’t end up going trecking instead of trekking! If you need a proofreader visit http://webcontent.ie.

What the hell is content?

Posted on 24. May, 2011 by in Blogging

I have a very simple blog post and a very simple question to ask. What is content? What does the word content mean to you? There are two different words spelled c-o-n-t-e-n-t. The one I am talking about is not the adjective that also means being satisfied.

Knowing your Osamas from your Obamas

Posted on 03. May, 2011 by in Blogging, Journalism, Twitter, Writing

The letters B and S aren’t that close on a keyboard, even writing them, it’s hard to mix them up unlike b and p for example which can cause problems for some people when writing something by hand (as opposed to typing). However, there has been mix-ups in recent days. A Fox news channel in [...]

What’s in a name?

Posted on 10. Mar, 2011 by in Blogging

Imagine arriving along to a ticketing machine at Heuston Station in Dublin, in a rush at peak travel time, keying in the name of the station you wish to buy a ticket to and finding it’s not there. Cue panic, I’d imagine. A few years ago the same thing happened me. I started typing in [...]

The Links Lark

Posted on 20. Feb, 2011 by in Link Lark, News

For a good while now we’ve been thinking of doing something with some of the interesting stuff we find on Twitter every day. Things we favourite, star or bookmark to come back to later. So coming soon, we’ll be doing regular updates with a brief intro and link to some of the interesting sites, articles [...]

Copyrights and copywrongs – what you need to know about stolen content

Posted on 20. Jan, 2011 by in Blogging, Copyright, Copywriting, Internet, Journalism, Photography, Writing

I try and avoid writing about copyright too much, mainly because I don’t want to seem to harp on about it. But when there’s a lot of chatter about it in a short space of time it’s hard to avoid helping others in their quest for answers when you have the knowledge.

Being smart about smartphones

Posted on 03. Jan, 2011 by in Blogging, Charity, Gadgets

Call me a hoarder if you wish, but I’ve never been one to easily part with a mobile phone. Sure, I love getting new ones… The problem is more to do with ditching the old phone. And I don’t think I’m the only one! A few years ago a colleague brought a Jack & Jill [...]

Is Monday, 3 January 2011 a bank/public holiday?

Posted on 16. Dec, 2010 by in Blogging, Career

UPDATE 21 DECEMBER 2012: Wondering whether Tuesday, 27 December 2011 or Monday, 2 January 2012 are days off work? In Ireland, as you can read below: “Where a public holiday falls on a weekend, employees do not have any automatic legal entitlement to have the next working day ie Monday off work… You are still entitled to [...]

Training, events and conferences to spark ideas

Posted on 10. Nov, 2010 by in Blogging

Information sparks ideas. Learning sparks ideas. But how do you capture these sparks? Any time I attend a conference, event, talk, workshop, course I find myself taking both notes on what the speaker is saying and the ideas sparked in my own mind from what they’re discussing. Currently I’m a participant on the CIME (pronounced [...]

Questions about the internet and having a web presence

Posted on 21. Oct, 2010 by in Blogging

What’s the most stupidest question you’ve heard (or been too afraid to ask) about websites or internet marketing? Why we want to know is because we’re going to start a new series of articles on the Webcontent.ie blog soon based on these questions. We’ll explain a topic in each article which will be based on [...]

What does the word ‘style’ mean to you?

Posted on 02. Oct, 2010 by in Copywriting

What’s betting that when you think of the word style you think of the world of fashion, glossy magazines, cat walks, people’s appearance and clothes? Correct me if I’m wrong, but to many people that’s what style is. Style means something different to many people who work with words. From marketing departments to book publishing [...]