Blogging tips for businesses

Whether you run a small business or a multinational corporation, blogs are a great way of improving your company’s image and gaining customer interest. Blogs have become a popular communications tool on corporate websites because of their ability to communicate with consumers in a more frequent and relaxed manner.  To help you get the most out of your company’s blog, we’ve created the following list of useful tips:

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Cite offers training at BlogCamp

Our very own Dafydd Prichard will be a speaker at BlogCamp Manchester this Friday, June 17th.

Sponsored by TalkTalk, BlogCamp is an event aimed at sharing information about blogging, and developing a community of bloggers from around the UK.

Daf’s session will focus on blog design.  He’s been busy coming up with all sorts of great tips on how to improve your blog, from its look and feel to installing useful plugins and implementing SEO techniques.

Whether you are an individual blogger or a business hoping to strengthen your blogging strategy, Daf’s got some great information that will have your readers coming back for more.

If you are interested in developing a corporate blog but don’t know where to start, give us a call on 0116 254 9888.

Cite developer makes national press

Cite’s talented young web developer Andrew Sharman hit the headlines this week in a big way.

Rather than complaining about a terrible holiday and the lack of customer services, he decided to hit travel agents Thomson’s where it hurt most – in the googles.

He wrote about this experiences on his blog, and then using social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook, and some good SEO managed to propel his blog to the top of the Google charts. The post, titled “My Thomson trip to Tunisia Review: Thomson trip to Tunisia, staying in Marhaba Palace Review“, appeared at the top of Google’s search results under the search terms Thomson and Tunisia.

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Blogging about blogs – and why WordPress rocks

Over the past couple of  years we’ve created loads of blog for our clients. Some like Mio Destino and Design4Retail are clearly designed as both marketing and news channels whilst the likes of Red Rocket is a personal site for PR professional, Phil Szomszor.

blogging is a great way to communicate online

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Virtual strikes on Second Life and awareness raising blogs!

No longer forced into the cold for hours on end to get their point across, in September last year strikers at IBM in Italy took to the virtual streets to protest at their unfair pay settlement. An article in this week’s economist describes how 2,000 employees logged on to stage their virtual protest. Not only did this pay off and employees received a new pay deal not a month later, but they also won an award at the Forum Netxplorateur, for their innovative use of the Internet.

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