Public versus private
Sometimes a word has more than one meaning. I’m not talking about words that sound similar but have completely different meanings. Like: peak/peek/pique and discreet/discrete are my favourite examples of those instances. I mean when a word has a different meaning to the reader or listener to the writer or person uttering the word. It’s […]
What Elaine nearly did next – the business idea I nearly explored before Web Content Partners
Would you have backed me? On 20 August 2008, I sent a proposal for a business I called CloudCouch to the organisers of the Enterprise Platform Programme at Waterford Institute of Technology. I think I was a bit ahead of my time. The recession hadn’t officially hit, but I personally was feeling it Think back to 2008 […]
One space versus two spaces after a full stop
When typing do you press the space bar one or two times after hitting the full stop key (or period for our US readers)? Not sure? Go to the last document you have written and do a Ctrl+F (find) search for (or just hit the space bar twice). Priority spaces As an editor, this is […]
Have you experimented with your content?
Writing content once is difficult enough for most organisations, never mind two or three or more times. Experimenting with content is something Google wants people to do to make better websites. And as a result and Google Analytics users will see an Experiments tab under the Content tab over coming months. Google Analytics content experiments This will […]
Social media research to be unveiled in Dublin
Ever wonder what effect social media has on you or your business? Be careful what you post because a framework that accurately identifies sick individuals from the content of online communication will be presented at an upcoming social media conference. International social media research findings The framework will be evaluated based on a large Twitter dataset […]