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What I do at work – a Mum’s explanation
A thought rocket and DanelDoodle in the form of an Instagram story that simplifies just enough but doesn’t dumb down. This was an interesting exercise. I often need it for work and it’s good to think of it in such simple terms. It’s often put to startups to explain their ideas so their Nan or…
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Content automation and Microsoft’s new OneNote Dictation tool
Creating content is really hard. I’ve been blogging now for the last 15 years and I can tell you, any way I can find to make it better, faster and more efficient, I will do it. So in this post I’m going to share why it’s important and what I’m doing in this area. This…
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Power Automate your content curation for WordPress
I started work a while back on trying to curate articles from a platform I use (Flipboard) and bringing them into WordPress. I started with a plugin called Feedzy, an RSS aggregator, but that had limitations. I documented those here in the first of a series of posts called SenseMaking from the web. This post…
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SenseMaking from the Web
How to Create an Employee Handbook Posted on July 15. Learn the benefits of having an employee handbook, what information to include for employees, and find easy-to-use templates. An employee handbook is … The future of cars is a subscription nightmare Posted on July 15. As cars get more expensive to make and profit margins…
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Sense Making from the web
This post is an aggregation of recent posts that I have collected over at Flipboard on my magazine there. I’ve automated the collection of these posts around specific topics and intend to share the best here in this blog from time to time. Here is the latest batch and I have been using Feedzy, an…
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Content management with WordPress evolved – full site editing 1
Last month WordPress announced that full site editing was coming to its WordPress.com users of which I am one. I’ve been meaning to take it for a spin but haven’t managed to until now. This post is an attempt at documenting my experiences as I try and learn the new functionality as well as get…
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What hope, the individual, drowning in a deluge of content?
I’ve been blogging on and off since at least 2005 in various forms or another, on many different platforms. This one is now 5 years old 🥳 (cue celebratory badge). The death knell for blogging has been tolled many times since. Social media and always on access through mobile phones have led to massive proliferation…
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Content Marketing 2020 – six things that work
Six of the things that I think work in terms of content marketing in 2020, captured in a DanelDoodle. This list is not exhaustive and the brief points for each are also not set in stone. Below is a brief additional paragraph on each.
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New directions in content creation
I’ve just enabled the new Gutenberg editor in WordPress, what I use for my site and blog. The goal of this new editor is to make adding rich content to WordPress simple and enjoyable. This post is a test and a review all in one. It’s not an entirely new concept since platforms like Medium…
