How to secure your WordPress site against hacker attacks

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One of the easiest content management systems to set up and use is WordPress, the largest self-hosted blogging platform in the world, powering more than 60 million websites worldwide. That fact may be a key reason why WordPress is in the news right now as the subject of a large-scale attack from a huge number [...]

Celebrate the very best in UK social media communications

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October is six months away still, yet now’s the time to start thinking about entering The UK Social Media Communication Awards 2013. Started in 2010  and known originally as The SomeComms Awards, this contest showcases innovation and the very best in British social media communications, and will celebrate the best of the best at a [...]

Tips and tricks that make Twitter useful to your business

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If you’re new to considering Twitter as a communication tool for business purposes – or even if you’re pretty experienced with it – it will be worthwhile taking a look at the re-launched Twitter for Business website. The content in and focus of this update – with a new look and structure – is very [...]

Can Google Hangouts replace press conferences?

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Faced with the problem of how to reconcile arranging a press conference for a VIP with the lack of a hard news story, independent communications consultancy Keene Communications adopted a different approach, one that might interest you. Guest writer Michael White explains. This is a story of why we chose to replace a press conference [...]

Kred wants to take influence measurement to a new level

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“We all have influence somewhere” is the tag line of Kred, a social influence measurement service created by PeopleBrowsr, a San Francisco-based social media analytics company, to identify influential people in interest-based communities. It’s a credible descriptor to apply to a service that, on the one hand, provides individuals with metrics to show the measurable [...]

BBC global survey shows evolving news consumption habits across multiple screens

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It’s doubtful that many people would disagree with the belief that our behaviours in how, where and when we consume content – the evolved way of saying what we used to describe as reading the papers, listening to the radio or watching TV – have shifted dramatically and permanently with the broad and deep penetration [...]

The dawn of the valuable-ad era

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Here are two ideas about advertising – online and offline – that could catch on in a big way and ‘evolutionize’ entire industries. Social news and entertainment site Reddit plans to let users vote on the ads they see when using the website, voting up those they like and down those they don’t: […] Our [...]

Easy content-sharing to your Kindle

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Some years ago, Amazon made my blog available as a subscription option for Kindle users. It would cost you 99 pence a month; in return, you’d get all my content delivered to your Kindle device (or Kindle app on your PC, smartphone or tablet) as it was published. Amazon’s now introduced something perhaps more interesting [...]

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