I’m spending quite a bit of time on Facebook these days. Please feel free to add me as a friend if you use Facebook – I’ve really enjoyed getting to know many readers in a more interactive forum. Here’s how to find me: my profile on Facebook. Just say you are a reader of this [...]

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There is a bit of chattering at the moment about PR-related blogging. A couple of years ago there were similar arguments about bloggers who accepted advertising on their sites. The underlying argument was the same: should mommy(mummy)bloggers do product reviews/have advertising on their sites? If they do, are they selling out? If they do, what [...]

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I’m doing it. How about you?

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When it became clear that William was going to be ill on and off for a long time, probably forever, I learnt to ask people for help.
Despite being a blogger I am essentially a very private person and unbearably self-reliant. Asking for help definitely does NOT come naturally to me.
But when news of William’s diagnosis [...]

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If you haven’t already got the message: it’s not a good idea to blog about work. An employee of Waterstone’s book chain has been one of the first UK employees (and certainly the most widely-reported) to be fired for blogging about work.
Joe Gordon has been writing the Woolamaloo Gazette newsletter for several years [...]

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