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Be Careful What You Blog, It Could Cost You Your Job
Blogging News, Personal We’ve all heard the stories about bloggers who have written things about their companies in their personal blogs that have caused them to get fired. Heather Armstrong of Dooce.com is probably one of the most well-known examples of this, but have you considered that your company could fire you just because you blog regardless of whether or not you ever mention your company (by name or not) in your blog? That’s exactly what happened ...
Continue readingClassic corporate subterfuge: Writing the email blog
Personal If you’re like many of us, you’re working in your boring, dead-end office job for just one reason: you need a quiet place with internet access where you can update your blog. (Also, it helps you pay for rent and food and stuff. But mostly jobs are about blogging, right?) Even if you love your job, there are few who can resist the lure of a half-hour of downtime and a quiet desk in the corner. Sometimes, you just gotta blog. Alas, less ...
Continue readingSetting your blogs goals for 2008
Personal Have you thought about your goals for 2008 yet? Better yet, have your written your goals down and defined them specifically? Its one thing to set goals, it quit another to achieve them. If done correctly you can achieve and possibly exceed any goal that you set for yourself be it Blogging or some other aspect of your life. Here are some effective ways to set, monitor and track your goals. Make your resolutions goals – Have you ever noticed ...
Continue readingWhat do you do for a living?
Personal I’ll be going home for Christmas Tuesday, back to a small town of 7,000 people on the edge of Ontario and Minnesota, a place where designers and bloggers are a very foreign concept that I’ll inevitably have to explain to anyone asking “what I’m up too now”. People don’t really get what a designer or a blogger is there, and explanation of either is usualy meet with confused looks and attempts at comparing you ...
Continue readingThe holiday juggle
Personal Sometimes you wind up having to blog on a holiday. I, for example, have a Thanksgiving deadline today for which I am totally unprepared. Fortunately, I am always happy to hold myself up as an example of what not to do, so learn from my mistakes and never, ever do the following: Wait until the day of your deadline to post your work. As I try to post this, my internet connection is experiencing small technical difficulties, probably because all my ...
Continue readingShould I use my own own domain name for my new blog…probably not!!
Personal As many of you know, I have been talking about launching a personal blog lately. As it happens, I uploaded wordpress to kevinmuldoon.com last week and have messed around with over a dozen wordpress themes trying to get something suitable. The reason I have taken so long to start this blog is because I wasn’t sure what type of blog it would be. I wanted a place to talk about my interests and for the most part that would be web development, ...
Continue readingTo theme or not to theme?
Blogger, Blogging, Personal, Writing You see the word ‘blog’ a lot these days. It seems like everyone has a blog, from grandmothers to garden supply stores. What started out as a few bored geeks posting online diaries has rapidly grown into a phenomenon that’s difficult to describe. Just what constitutes a blog? Can a series of posts about a company’s product, peppered with links and keywords and SEO terms, really be considered in the same category as a thirteen year ...
Continue readingSome more pics from my trip
Personal I’ve been promising some more pics for a while but unfortunately, most of the pics of the trip are on my friend’s laptop. However, I’ve managed to find a few for you guys. Enjoy * Tara from Graphic Design Blog tagged me a few weeks ago in this post to post some pics. Sorry for the delay Tara Doing the Tongariro Crossing, New Zealand We did a full days hike up up Mount Tongariro AKA Mount Doom from Lord of the Rings. It took us ...
Continue readingKonnichiwa Bloggers – Delta Bravo is returning to base!
Personal I’ve been away from home for about 7 months. I’ve been in New Zealand for about 5 months now and although i love this country it’s time for me to start heading home. In the last month i have travelled all around New Zealand and with the winter arriving here and the summer in full swing back in the UK it’s time to start heading back. I have did my best to run my websites whilst travelling but there really is only so much ...
Continue readingSome photos of my travels the last few months
Personal I decided to add a personal category to the blog so that the site has a much needed personal touch – damn thats cheesy!!! Don’t worry – i wont be blasting you with personal problems and complaints but i will occasionally put a pic up showing you what ive been doing whilst ive been away from the pc. This post is being published on the day i go travelling around New Zealand for 3 weeks so when i get back i should have some good ...
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