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16 Google Wave Invites

30, Nov 2009

Just a quick post to let you know that I have 16 Google Wave invites to hand out. If your not sure what a Google Wave is then have a quick look at the video below:

So now that you have an overview of what Google Wave is (if you didn’t know already). Just send a [...]

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I’ve mentioned before the one of the goals I had for myself was to increase my web presence. I’ve been monitoring the results and posting progression updates along the way so other people can compare. If you have missed out on my other posts take a look at these ones:

http://www.jason-v.com/2009/08/01/have-you-googled-your-name
http://www.jason-v.com/2009/08/10/web-presence-update

To give a bit of re-cap [...]

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To be honest, this is an excuse to post a comic of xkcd but it does highlight the importance of branding. In the xkcd comic below, I thought of it as a “How to judge if your brand is successful!”

This got me thinking about the importance of creating a strong brand name. A brand, an [...]

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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 73% of students who have [...]

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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 stats, checking [...]

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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 of 100 on google.com [...]

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