Creative Agency Secrets

another great idea out of Confused of Calcultta’s blog

A team uses a blog to link to all the suggestions and opportunities while setting up a procurement process for Digital Bristol

Workstream 3 Draft for Connecting Bristol & meeting the digital challenge

Google bombing is an attempt to influence the Google ranking of a page Defined here

But this is a great example of making it happen to a US site that is spreading mis-information.
Here’s what I picked up on (rather tekkie) but read the comments at the bottom.  Martin Luther King Jr

By the way, I checked the site 24 hours after the original post was made (finding it via Confused of Calcultta blog) and all the links had already been broken.

Proof of the power of the blogosphere?

A whale of a time to be had reading quasi-rowing related novels… all picked out by the Tideway Slug Page down to find the article ROWING BOOKS OF A DIFFERENT KIND.

As a new resident of Cambridgeshire, this one particularly caught my eye The Cantabrigian Rowing Society’s Saturday Night Bash.  Now where did the author get his idea for this title…?

Shurely we should be told…
Here’s the real Cantabs Rowing Club

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I just heard back from a Boat Club Captain whose crew I’ve been with for a fortnight.  They are doing pre-race preparation.

"I’ve just had a crew meeting
planning our race next week – you’ve no idea how many times the phrase “I loved
it when Rebecca did this…” came up!" 

so everyone’s doing it…
The Times
The Guardian
The Independent

BUT you heard it first from me

PS while searching the Telegraph side for "rowing" I found ‘BBC rowing over cash for honours bonus’.  Made me laugh as this is about rowing and money too!

Speaking sense.  You know it when you read it!

A couple of my clients have staff resigining or getting itchy feet at the moment.  It’s normal.

But what you do about it matters.

Read this and use it to help you make a decision about those key workers and the impact they have on your business if they stay or if they go.

From The Houston Chronicle

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I had to laugh… it isn’t often you find a tekkie with the ability to write cod verse.
My mate’s Mum is a web designer

I hate being blinded by science… that feeling that there are experts out there who can’t explain exactly how they do something but want you to buy it anyway.

SEO makes me feel like that.  It’s a dark art… we’re all out chasing a moving target called the Google Algorithym….I have successfully done this before……trust me and pay me a huge monthly retainer to keep your site at the top of the list.

It isn’t all rubbish.

BUT I found this article and it gives me huge reassurance that for those of us who can’t do this ourselves - there is a solution that is within our grasp and within our capabilities.
Good copy = Good SEO

PS I know a great copywriter

Finally, an honest and non-kneejerk reaction to the supposed safety issues regarding the MK1 oarlocks.

Led by Carl Douglas with some fine reasoning.

Magik Oarlocks Safety Discussion

In conversation with Duncan Holland Chief Coach, Cambridge University Boat Club

The funding issue is about whether
it is possible to row for your country and study at the same time.

We have finished talking to the ARA and David Tanner has not changed
his position and so now we are prepared to go public with our views.

We are upset about the principle that rowing training is becoming centralised. You have to be at Caversham to be in the
national team. Going back to ‘92
everyone was spread out around the country and since then the national training
has become increasingly centralised. The
agreement for this Olympiad was that it would become totally centralised for the last year only.

However, this year British International Rowing Office  changed the strategic plan and it is now 2 years centralised training and if you are not there you are not funded. By centralising training, an athlete that
wants to study is limited to choice of institutions where they can study. Therefore if you want to row for GB you can’t
study.

David Tanner is limiting funding to 2 athletes in our
current squad.

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