Get Fresh

(Blog title especially for Steve who I met today at the NAVCA conference. But when did they tell us to Get Fresh?)
Notice anything different? Its OK, WatfordGap hasn’t been taken over and no this is not the early demise of the ICT Hub either!
I’ve changed my WordPress theme for two reasons.
I’ve had a number of [...]

Back to reality

For those who weren’t aware there was a prize to be awarded at the end of the ‘31 days to a better blog’ challenge. The worthy winners were the mini-legends from Australia (see Sue’s post). I was personally particularly impressed by the dedication of both the class and their teacher in using blogging for the [...]

31 Days to a Better Blog - Day 31 : SWOT

Its the last day of the challenge and firstly a few thanks.
To Darren for producing such interesting challenges each day, to Michele who set the band of bloggers off on the challenge and to Laura who started with Day 1 and handed the baton over to me part way through (if anyone is following her [...]

31 Days to a Better Blog - Day 30 : Explore a new social media site

Only one more day to go after this!
As some of you may know the ’sidebar’ to this blog has recently been my exploration into Twitter, Facebook and MyBlogLog etc. to see if they have a place in the UK voluntary sector; something that is a bit of a hot topic at the moment with news [...]

31 Days to a Better Blog - Day 29 : Thanks for the Juice

“Say thanks to Auntie P. for the nice gift”. If you’ve got children (or if you are one) wasn’t this always a bit of a let down to a great birthday? You know you had to write thank you letters, but you’d much rather play with the car / doll / commemorative spoon (I had [...]

31 Days to a Better Blog - Day 28 : The Mission Statement

Easy I thought - “The mission statement for Watfordgap is…..”.
Well I know know what my mission is, I know why I write these blog posts, but do I write them for the same reasons as you are reading them? All companies and charities have a mission, we all have a mission when we get [...]

31 days to a better blog - Day 26 and Day 27

I’ve combined Day 26 and Day 27 together, partly because I’ve missed a day over this holiday weekend but also because taking these two together at first glance they don’t seem 100% relevant to the non-profit tech / voluntary sector world. However after a good walk to give them some thought there are still [...]

31 days to a better blog - Day 25 - Go Shopping ?!

I’ve come back to my blog today (Sunday) after a great day out. It was hot! Peaceful in the countryside, but on the way back we stopped off and wandered around the city centre for an hour whilst waiting for the train.
This was all before I’d read Darren’s post in the 31 Days to a [...]

31 days to a better blog - Day 24 - SEO or “How do I get my blog read more?”

It’s that SEO word again (Search Engine Optimization)!
Or basically - I’ve written a blog post that I’m really excited about, how do I get the whole world to read it?
Today Darren at Problogger identifies two forms of SEO (I’m not typing the full thing everytime - hope you don’t mind!) There are “Off-site” techniques and [...]

31 days to a better blog - Day 23 - Let’s go on a dead link hunt (part 2)

OK as promised I ran the dead-links checker tonight and I waited, made a coffee, ate some flapjack, waited some more and returned to my laptop 30 or so minutes later as it completed this task. I guess I should be impressed with the results (actually I genuinely am as doing this manually I’d get [...]