I’m in the process of redesigning CagedEther after inspiration following a Theme Framework session. On investigating different WordPress themes, I came across a system to that may well help me juggle and organize the various pieces I want to squeeze into my blog’s latest incarnation. First though, a minor detour into my personal history, to [...]

The BPI Institute website have an article covering the problems of successfully implementing a business process management  (BPM) solution. Don’t know what a BPM is? Don’t worry – I only have the faintest idea. What was striking were the reasons for failure the piece lists: lack of understanding what BPM really is fear of failure [...]

If you are a long-time WordPress developer who understands all the ins and outs of theme development then this post isn’t for you. OK, now we’ve got that out of the way, for those of you left, let’s try and decipher where the real value lies in theme frameworks. Help comes in the shape of [...]

Those SES guys in conjunction with Hubspot just hosted an excellent presentation by Karen Wikre, Google’s Senior Manager of Corporate Communications. Karen has been at Google for over 7 years and in that time has played a prominent part in bringing blogs into the center of Google’s communication strategy. Why the empasis on blogs? As [...]

News evolves. We’ve gone from print to radio, TV and wait for it… the internet. The humble press release has had to evolve too. As an in-depth piece in Econsultancy points out about the emergence of TV: Companies sprang up to service this need and PR people had to learn a new skill – video [...]

Google recently acquired MetaWeb. Interest was piqued in the tech industry press. For instance Giga Om’s Liz Gannes tried to explain why the big G picked up this relatively unknown semantic web service. The Register also picked up the news, gleaning…

Google recently acquired MetaWeb. Interest was piqued in the tech industry press. For instance Giga Om’s Liz Gannes tried to explain why the big G picked up this relatively unknown semantic web service: The Register also picked up the news, gleaning information from a YouTube video on MetaWeb’s site, amongst other sources: Where do they [...]

Those far-reaching tentacles of Shel and Neville over at the FIR Podcast picked up an informative new document from the Social Media Group titled ‘Social Media RFP Template’.  As more and more agencies from across the marketing spectrum (and in particular SEO and PR) now offer social media services, how do you separate the wheat [...]