In this session you will learn about the classification of data by tags and hierarchical taxonomies, and the use of microformats, including hCal, hCard and hReview. You will also examine moblogging, and rich media blogging, such as audioblogging and podcasting, photoblogging and videoblogging.
Training sessions can be tailored to your needs, and can be half a day or a day long. Training can be done on a one-to-one basis, or in small groups, and cheatsheets of useful URIs are provided.

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Technorati Tags: media, blog, blogging

Dark blogs are hidden behind a firewall and thus are inaccessible to the public. They have a wide variety of uses, including knowledge sharing, personal knowledge management and event logging. In this module you will find out how blogs can be used internally and the various enterprise blogging tools that are available.You will learn about the IT and cultural issues surrounding blogging internally, and their solutions. You will also look at how blogging can be integrated into existing IT systems and, equally importantly, into employee’s working processes.

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Technorati Tags: blog, blogging, personal, sharing, man

Light blogs are public-facing blogs, such as marketing, CEO or product development blogs. You will learn about the different uses for light blogs, how to start a light blogging project and how you can integrate your blog with the wider blog community.We will discuss some of the issues faced by corporate bloggers, and consider essential frameworks, such as linking, content and editorial policies. By the end of this module, you will have a clear understanding of light blogs, and will be able to start planning your own light blog project using my business blogging route map.

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Technorati Tags: business, blog, blogger, blogging

The blog tracking site Technorati is currently watching over 15 million blogs, and each one of those blogs is a place for people to discuss your company and your products. You can’t afford to miss out on taking part in this conversation, but before you can talk to bloggers, you have to learn to listen to them.In this session, you will discover why listening to the blogosphere is important, and which tools you can use to monitor it. You’ll also learn about the nature and structure of the blogosphere, including demographic information and blog-related statistics.

We will also examine good and bad practice for communicating with bloggers, including how to deal with criticism, how to pitch to bloggers and how to foster good relationships with your fans.

Blog Training « 

Technorati Tags: blog, blogger

This introductory module will answer many of your basic blogging questions, such as:• What is a blog?
• What is a trackback?
• What is an RSS feed?
• What is a ‘ping’?
• What do bloggers mean by ‘voice’?
• What are common types of blog?

The session will provide you with a hands-on demonstration of a popular blogging tool and an online RSS feed reader. You will also find out how users progress from tool to tool as they become more experienced.

Blog Training « 

Technorati Tags: blog, blogger, blogging, man

Suddenly, blogs are everywhere you look. Where once the media were the opinion makers, now individual bloggers have the influence and reach to change the way your customers think about you. Why? Because bloggers are your customers, and they are talking about you behind your back.

The media and businesses - especially your competitors - are scrambling to find out what blogs are, and what impact they are having on the market. Are you being left behind? What do all these strange new words mean anyway? And why do IT people just spout even more jargon when you ask them?

I can help, by answering questions like:

• What is a blog?
• How does a blog work?
• What impact can bloggers have on my business?
• How should I interact with bloggers?
• What sort of PR materials should I send to bloggers?
• How can I use a blog internally?

I have designed a number of training sessions designed to answer these and other questions and in doing so, make blogging an indispensable part of your business plan. You can select from the following modules or I can tailor a session to fit your company’s specific needs.

Blog Training « 

Technorati Tags: business, media, design, blog, blogger, blogging

The PHP development team is proud to announce the release of PHP 5.1.3. This release combines small number of feature enhancements with a significant amount of bug fixes and resolves a number of security issues. All PHP users are encouraged to upgrade to this release as soon as possible. Some of the key changes of PHP 5.1.3 include:

• Disallow certain characters in session names.
• Fixed a buffer overflow inside the wordwrap() function.
• Prevent jumps to parent directory via the 2nd parameter of the tempnam() function.
• Enforce safe_mode for the source parameter of the copy() function.
• Fixed cross-site scripting inside the phpinfo() function.
• Fixed offset/length parameter validation inside the substr_compare() function.
• Fixed a heap corruption inside the session extension.
• Fixed a bug that would allow variable to survive unset().
• Fixed a number of crashes in the DOM, SOAP and PDO extensions.
• Upgraded bunbled PCRE library to version 6.6
• The use of the var keyword to declare properties no longer raises a deprecation E_STRICT.
• FastCGI interface was completely reimplemented.
• Multitude of improvements to the SPL, SimpleXML, GD, CURL and Reflection extensions.
• Over 120 various bug fixes.

Further details about this release can be found in the release announcement and the full list of changes is available in the PHP 5 ChangeLog.

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