http://www.dawnb.co.uk web content - copywriting - online publishing Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:05:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.dawnb.co.uk/2011/04/website-broken-links-and-the-404-error-page/ http://www.dawnb.co.uk/2011/04/website-broken-links-and-the-404-error-page/#comments Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:30:47 +0000 Dawn http://www.dawnb.co.uk/?p=1791 You’ve probably heard of ‘broken links’ but do you actually know what they are? And do you know what to do about them? And how about your 404 page (what?) have you thought about that too? Let’s start simply… What are Website Broken Links? If you click on a link and it doesn’t go where [...]]]> http://www.dawnb.co.uk/2011/04/website-broken-links-and-the-404-error-page/feed/ 0 http://www.dawnb.co.uk/2011/04/images-%e2%80%93-where-do-you-find-them/ http://www.dawnb.co.uk/2011/04/images-%e2%80%93-where-do-you-find-them/#comments Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:15:57 +0000 Dawn http://www.dawnb.co.uk/?p=1808 Images add Interest to Online Writing …but where do you find them? I was at a client’s recently and had a surprising conversation about using images from the internet. My client thought that if the image was on the internet then it was OK to go ahead and use it. It was freely available to [...]]]> http://www.dawnb.co.uk/2011/04/images-%e2%80%93-where-do-you-find-them/feed/ 1 http://www.dawnb.co.uk/2011/04/website-testing-and-blog-testing/ http://www.dawnb.co.uk/2011/04/website-testing-and-blog-testing/#comments Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:39:33 +0000 Dawn http://www.dawnb.co.uk/?p=1763 When was the last time you tested your website or spent some time blog testing? Don’t know what I mean? Don’t know why it needs doing? Well in its simplest form testing a website or blog testing means looking at everything again (every page, every post) and making sure everything does what you expect and [...]]]> http://www.dawnb.co.uk/2011/04/website-testing-and-blog-testing/feed/ 0 http://www.dawnb.co.uk/2011/04/an-inspiring-blog-challenge/ http://www.dawnb.co.uk/2011/04/an-inspiring-blog-challenge/#comments Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:36:40 +0000 Dawn http://www.dawnb.co.uk/?p=1723 A challenge  should be inspiring and a challenge related to my blog is certainly that. Nicky Kriel has a lot to answer for. I while ago I challenged her to write  a blog post – the result is all about New Ideas Being Rejected. Nicky has returned the favour(!) and challenged me to take part [...]]]> http://www.dawnb.co.uk/2011/04/an-inspiring-blog-challenge/feed/ 5 http://www.dawnb.co.uk/2010/08/small-business-help/ http://www.dawnb.co.uk/2010/08/small-business-help/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:25:31 +0000 Dawn http://www.dawnb.co.uk/?p=1389 Just written two new articles for small business help. There are a lot of people giving advice to small business and many places offering to help. I know from running my own business that there are quite a few people who know the theory but I wonder just how much of it they have applied [...]]]> http://www.dawnb.co.uk/2010/08/small-business-help/feed/ 3 http://www.dawnb.co.uk/2010/05/april-newsletter-published-last-week/ http://www.dawnb.co.uk/2010/05/april-newsletter-published-last-week/#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 14:42:10 +0000 Dawn http://www.dawnb.co.uk/?p=1007 The latest DawnB newsletter is out – all about Spring Cleaning and blogging. Have you thought about how to spring clean your blog? Don’t miss out, sign up here for the DawnB newsletter – next month will be all about email and autresponders. There are many options for blogging. Choose an option best suited to [...]]]> http://www.dawnb.co.uk/2010/05/april-newsletter-published-last-week/feed/ 0 http://www.dawnb.co.uk/2010/01/goal-achievement/ http://www.dawnb.co.uk/2010/01/goal-achievement/#comments Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:11:11 +0000 Dawn http://www.dawnb.co.uk/?p=708 Did you set any 2010 goals? How are you doing with them? It’s the end of January already and this month has galloped by for me. I set myself some goals for the year – which meant I also worked out some January goals to get me along the way – and I’m glad to [...]]]> http://www.dawnb.co.uk/2010/01/goal-achievement/feed/ 3 http://www.dawnb.co.uk/2010/01/3-es-for-managers-effectiveness-efficiency-and-economy/ http://www.dawnb.co.uk/2010/01/3-es-for-managers-effectiveness-efficiency-and-economy/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:33:52 +0000 Dawn http://www.dawnb.co.uk/?p=696 I’ve written an article about the three Es of management: Effectiveness Efficiency Economy Different organisations will all have different mixes of the three, but an understanding of what the model means allows performance to be measured and improved. What I’d really like to know is whether this article makes the difference between Effectiveness, Efficiency and Economy clear?]]> http://www.dawnb.co.uk/2010/01/3-es-for-managers-effectiveness-efficiency-and-economy/feed/ 1 http://www.dawnb.co.uk/2010/01/constraints-and-triangles-how-project-management-can-help-all-business/ http://www.dawnb.co.uk/2010/01/constraints-and-triangles-how-project-management-can-help-all-business/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:31:58 +0000 Dawn http://www.dawnb.co.uk/?p=676 I’ve just completed an article on The Project Management Triangleand whilst I was writing it it struck me how well the triangle explains the difficulties faced by small business.   Understanding and managing constraints is an important activity for all businesses, so having a model that identifies three common constraints can help us.    The project management [...]]]> http://www.dawnb.co.uk/2010/01/constraints-and-triangles-how-project-management-can-help-all-business/feed/ 1 http://www.dawnb.co.uk/2010/01/adding-comments-to-a-blog/ http://www.dawnb.co.uk/2010/01/adding-comments-to-a-blog/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:17:09 +0000 Dawn http://www.dawnb.co.uk/?p=671 I was a a little surprised today, talking to a couple of business colleagues, at their lack of understanding about why to add a comment to a blog post – and how to do it too. I’ve just written a short article explaining how to add a comment to a blog post. I’ve also given a few reasons why I [...]]]> http://www.dawnb.co.uk/2010/01/adding-comments-to-a-blog/feed/ 1