Branding? Social media? All awesome.
But this is my site, and what it should really be is reflect MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! And because I’m human, there are too many aspects to me to categorise and classify.
Wheeeee!!!!
Henceforth it shall be rebranded as “the online repository of all things useful and useless”!
All part of The Journey!
I got this in an e-mail forward, and thought it was hilarious. Props to whoever did this up.
Apologies for my absence from this blog. I have been swamped with work, as usual. And on top of that, I’ve been sick since the entire weekend. I think I overheated. My nose spent a great deal of time leaking blood last night. =P
I know that work seems to be impeding my blogging, but I’m stubbornly making it a point to blog because I work as a social media consultant, and therefore must participate and experiment on my own as well, and not talk out of my ass when advising clients.
I’ve also learnt a couple of things about my own social media participation lately as well. At first, I was all for social media integration, but lately I’ve been wondering whether it’s wiser to separate your social and work accounts. But that, my dear readers, is for another post. 
And I’ve been wondering whether I should open up more on this blog as well. Longtime readers will probably notice that the passion and fire and brimstone is acutely missing here, just because I’m quite wary that this is the blog that I’m marketing “me” on. But I don’t think this blog is worth it’s name without it’s original soul, is it? So that’s something else to try in this experiment.
Anyway, I’ve had a couple of topics lined up lately. I’ve also been brainstorming for content for the company to package, because I feel that I’ve a lot to share and teach. And even if I don’t get it (I hope I do!), putting my ideas down in writing has given me even more content for this blog.
Now the question is when am I going to write them?
Here are some tentative topics:
And I WILL aim to write at least one post a week. Hold me to it.
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SME – Small and Medium Enterprises
It varies from country to country. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) defines it on basis of no. of employees:
small – less than 20
medium - 21 to 200
large greater – than 200
SMB – Small and Medium Business
See SME.
CRM – Customer Relationship Management
Generally includes all aspects of the above. Too wide to define here. Read Wikipedia for more.
However, in my line of work, it generally involves record keeping for client’s customers, as well as tools to help the business interact with the customer.
CMS – Content Management System
Like the above, there are many different types of CMSes. In my line of work, we generally work with Web CMSes, which are used to build business websites that especially require their content to be editable by non-html speaking humans.
SEO – Search Engine Optimisation
This is more an art than a science, imo (in my opinion). Beware the companies that tell you that they have calculated methods to drive up your search engine rankings, as search providers like Google and Bing change their algorhithim regularly.
However, real proper SEO does exist, and should be common sense for good website builders and PR agencies anyway. This includes stuff like getting the website architecture done properly, as well as making sure that you’re connected to the right organisations and individuals online and off.
WTF – the reaction to the above jargon by the average person
Disclaimer – The above are very generalised definitions. For further definitions, there’s Google and Wikipedia.
:p
The blog was never compromised at all. It was just the theme I was using. Apparently it just links to the online service Websnapr that just shows a popup of snapshot of the link in your pingbacks. I mistook it for a popup because the service was down when I hovered my mouse over it, and saw a different site.
Meh. At least it’s a learning experience!