Legal Risks for Businesses Integrating Social Media
Although not an entirely new concept, social media has started to become significantly noticed within all industries – no matter the organisational size. As more and more companies are turning to the internet to advertise their products and services they beginning to use more than just Google Adwords to advertise: Facebook and Twitter have the power to reach millions of people, targeted by the power of retweeting (at no cost to the business) and groups (such as followers and hashtags on Twitter).
In most cases a business will hire an employee to be the social media manager, someone who will … Read the rest
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Benefits and Risks of Enterprise 2.0
In previous posts we have discussed how to create a successful blog and how businesses (even you!) can use crowd-sourcing to source cheap or free labour and maximise the potential of any product you provide. What we have not yet considered is what risks pose a business functioning online; can the benefits outweigh the detriments?
Operating for 116 years, IBM is one of the world’s most successfully companies – practically everyone has heard of them. Lesser known is the company’s integration of social media (such as blogs, Twitter and Facebook). However the company’s move towards encouraging employee’s to share via the internet … Read the rest
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How to Create a Successful Blog
As many of my readers may know, I am still a university student. A fledging in a world of long-time practicing professionals. Yet that does not mean that I lack experience, nor do I lack the ability to part with my knowledge. In today’s post I will be reflecting upon what makes a “successful” blog, and how any other “fledglings” can start their own.
What makes a successful blog?
Blogs can be considered successful in a variety of ways – depending on the aims of the creator (note that a creator isn’t always the author of content found on such … Read the rest
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New Commenting System
Over the last few days I have been implementing the Disqus commenting system across all my websites (KatSkinner.com and Des a Dev). As a result there will be some temporary styling issues with the commenting areas, but do note that as soon as I get time I will be fixing this.
Why did I change the commenting system?
There are a number of reasons for my move from the traditional WordPress commenting system to the Disqus commenting system; mainly the reasons are:
- Improved security and administration,
- Integrating across a number of social networks,
- Integrating commenting and user accounts
How To Install The Carrington Theme Framework
Today I will provide a short step-by-step tutorial (with screenshots!) on how to install the Carrington Theme Framework.
What you will need:
- WordPress. At time of writing this article the current WordPress version is 3.1.
- Your own hosted server and domain name.
- FTP Program, such as Filezilla, to upload the Carrington framework.
- Carrington theme framework.
Step One (1): Install WordPress
WordPress has a famous five minute install.
Unfortunately I won’t be providing the step by step details of how to install WordPress. If you haven’t set up WordPress before, I suggest you read the official documentation on … Read the rest
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Principle of RADITM
When designing any computer program (or doing any coding what so ever), some basic principles apply. One of these principles is known as RADITM.
RADITM represents each stage of a project. It is a waterfall model (which in simple terms means that each stage can be followed downwards or upwards in the chain depending on necessity).
R – Request
This stage is where a prospective client asks for a particular project to be completed.
A – Analyse
The analysis stage is where the developer and/or designer must determine what the client wants the system to do.What are the constraints of
History of Computing and Common Terms
Computing dates back over 5000 years – in fact many people believe that the first computing device was the abacus (for adding and subtracting).
In 1642 the Pascaline was created. It allowed users to calculate sums up to eight (8) figures long. However this device still only could perform addition and subtraction.
In 1830′s the first general purpose computer was created (the Analytical Engine). This computer included input devices (a way of getting content/data into a computer – such as keyboard, mouse or disk drive), memory storage, a control unit that allowed processing instructions in any sequence and output devices
Evolution of Ethics
Ethics are often an oversight to novel development. However, they are an important part of any novel; a character will be guided by their morals, businesses and governments will generally reflect the holistic moral views of society, and the way large groups interact will reflect society’s norms.
This article will analyze the history of ethics, and outline the different view points that can be taken (many of which will be analyzed in more depth in later blog articles).
Ethics have been recorded for thousands of years: many ancient philosophers such as Socrates, Aristotle and Confucius have shown the study of
Basics of Egoism
Understanding people is a major step towards creating realistic characters in your novels, this includes how people think, talk, act and what they believe. This post considers the psychological principle of egoism, and how you can use this principle to create a believable character.
What is Egoism
Egoism looks at the outcome of a decision in terms of the effect it has on an individual.
Different Types of Egoism
There are two types of egoism commonly discussed:
- Psychological egoism suggests that everyone is motivated by their own self-interest. They perform actions that ultimately gain them benefit (even if undergoing short-term discomfort).
Deal With Mental Blanks, Inspired By Computer Games Part 2
In Deal With Mental Blanks, Inspired By Computer Games I looked at how you can find inspiration from a computer game. It focused upon step by step what may occur within a novel, with lots of examples.
This post is designed to teach you to question yourself – an essential tool to move past any mental blocks.
We know that our hero named John will be going on a quest. What we don’t know is who John is or why he is going on the quest.
Create A Wide Variety of Races and Cultures
John will pass through several cities, or … Read the rest
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