WordPress fans, of which we are, that can’t make the WordCamp conference this weekend in San Francisco should visit the WordPress hub to see if they are coming to a city near you soon.

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PR Week’s report on their recent survey on what’s keeping the communications directors awake at night in the 31st Oct 2008 issue, reveals that online is very much an integral part of the job. Here are some of the online highlights:
% of budget spent on digital PR or marketing?
over 50%; only 7% of respondents
11 […]

Tess Alps, CEO of Thinkbox, highlighted three points, in her recent Media Week comments (pg 15, 4 Nov 2008) to take note of for monitoring your reputation online:
“the danger with all bogs and online forums is that those views are given more with than they merit.”
“it’s easy to find yourself responding to a theoretcially influential, […]

We have migrated our blog from blog.iconcertina.com to our new home blog.openface.com and misplaced our images enroute from our previous blog postings. We are sorry for the inconvenience and loss of examples and colour, but hope that this is only temporary and that they’ll be back soon.

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Technorati have just released their 2008 version of the State of Blog. Follow the link to read all five sections of the blog, with the final due out now - brands enter the blogosphere.

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And you thought all they did was gamble in Vegas! But not this week as it was Blog World Expo on the 20th and 21st September 2008.
There are fabulous current blog stats on the home page; including:
In excess of 12 million US citizens blog which are read by 57 million Amerians! […]

Marketing Sherpa highlight this week reasons to blog, as if you need an excuse, here they are:
Improve search results/rankings
Steping stone to thought leadership status
Capture new browsers
Interact with interested stakeholders via comments
New business leads
Informations source for journalists!
To achieve any of these, CONTENT remains KING. It must be genuine, heartfelt, focused and added to regularly to […]

I’ve just come across this formula to use to create the best blog title:
(Number) (Adjective) (Key Phrase)
Try to use your keywords in the key phrase for good search results too.
Now let’s try it out:
10 Best Safari Spas
5 Tempting Tiramisu recipies
3 Revolting Monster Stories for under 5s
Your go….

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Visit the 12th Webby Awards site to see the full list of winners and runners up.
I’d like to bring your attention to the blog catergories:
Best Business Blog FT.com Alphaville (webby award winner and people’s voice winner too)
Best Culture/Personal Blog: PostSecret
Best Political Blog: The Huffington Post
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Just in case you thought you’d seen this before, this tool comes from the Internet -World site - Thanks.

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