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Your blog – Getting over the first hurdles

15, Aug 2009

This week in the lecture there were some very surprising results which were put to the class: Your blogs (66 enrolled) –        17 enrolled but no blog URL provided (26%) –        31 blogs look inactive (only 1 or 2 posts) (47%) –        18 blogs tracking well (27%) The results above at this stage mean that [...]

Web Presence Update

10, Aug 2009

Hi All, I thought I would give everyone a bit of an update of what is happening behind the scenes with my site. One of the key objectives was to entertain the idea of creating a web presence. So how will I know how I’m going and if I’m heading the right way? Monitoring with [...]

What is Twitter? Should I Twitter?

7, Aug 2009

Twitter? What is that? Twitter is a micro blogging web 2.0, social networking, latest trend, etc…. site….. that allows you to post short messages (think sms), videos, links, photos ‘Out There’ (the Internet/twitter sphere). If you are more of a video person, the guys at http://www.commoncraft.com have put together a great video which you can [...]

Don’t forget to backup!

6, Aug 2009

Hi All, I thought it would be worth mentioning that having a regular backup of your data is important. In particular I would like to focus on your wordpress site. There are a two components of a wordpress site that need to be looked after. The Database – which has all the posts, data, text [...]

Negative Web Presence Example – Abbey Sherwell

5, Aug 2009

I received an e-mail forward today which highlights the interaction between a client and a customer when things go wrong. Abbey Sherwell who used to work for Entertainment Books up until a week ago accidentally hit ‘reply’ instead of ‘forward’ and the client, Craig Morrissey (a Cafe owner in Geelong, Victoria). The contents in of [...]

QUT – List of fellow student blogs

3, Aug 2009

Hey guys, if you haven’t already seen the blog post over at digitalorgs.net (here), Jason Watson has got the wiki online. So this means, that you can now add your site to the list and check each others out (something I’ve been waiting to do) by clicking here! Not only is this a good way [...]

Blogging today, power to the people

2, Aug 2009

Writing a diary or a journal is old news. Blogs Blogging Blogshphere Web 2.0 Social networking Online Interactions Enterprise 2.0 Tweets Is what it is all about these days. Interactions between platforms, instant communication and feedback. Suddenly a target audience of a few because an audience of many. I’ve just bought myself an iPhone and [...]

Have you googled your name?

1, Aug 2009

Have you googled your name? This was a question posted by the guys over at RockTheJob and yes, yes I have googled my name. The results: 0 hits out of 100 on google.com when searching for Jason Van Dyk. 1 hit out of 100 on google.com when searching for “Jason Van Dyk”. 0 hits out [...]

Twittorati – The next thing?

31, Jul 2009

If you haven’t heard of twitter by now, you’re not keeping up with the latest web trends. So whats next to join the social giant of web 2.0? I just received an email saying that ‘Twittorati‘ is up and running. Now if you were like me you would of made the connection between Technorati and [...]

Getting Started

30, Jul 2009

Hi all. This is the first blog post on the site – www.jason-v.com. Unlike typically first posts which are filled with ‘test post’, ‘testing’, ‘first post’, ‘hello world’ (by the way, thanks wordpress for inserting that one yourself), I’ve decided to fill it with content. So two basic questions, answered: Why wordpress? I have heard [...]


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