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Canadian blog awards

It’s time for the Canadian blog awards, and I’m nominated in the “Best Sci/Tech Blog” category. Feel free to head over there and cast your vote; you do not have to be Canadian to vote.

2008 11 24 Sandy Kemsley Comments (0)

FeedBurner kills my feed. Again.

When I switched to the new Google-hosted version of FeedBurner (which soon everyone using FeedBurner will be forced to convert to), they screwed up my feed, causing my subscriptions to drop by about 20%. Since then, my numbers have come back to to around what they were — presumably through organic growth of the people [...]

2008 10 23 Sandy Kemsley Comments (0)

The Future of BPM

I’m doing the afternoon keynote at the Ultimus user conference on Wednesday (yes, I have to get from DC to San Antonio) on the topic of the future of BPM. If there are any particular things that you think I should include in my talk, add them as comments to this post or email/Twitter/Skype/Facebook me: [...]

2008 10 20 Sandy Kemsley BPM Comments (0)

My continuing Feedburner story

As I mentioned previously, my feed subscribers dropped by 20% when Google switched me from Feedburner to the Google-branded feeds that are replacing them, and a couple of people have told me directly that the feed just stopped working, requiring them to unsubscribe and resubscribe to the new address. I subscribe to my own feed [...]

2008 09 12 Sandy Kemsley Comments (4)

Fix my feed!

It’s official: Google screwed up my feed when I switched from the feeds.feedburner.com URL to feedproxy.google.com, even though it was supposed to remap seamlessly. Nice going, guys. I’ve had it confirmed by at least two people that the feed just stopped working, and they had to remove and add it again to their feed reader. [...]

2008 09 10 Sandy Kemsley Comments (2)

Feed stats

A few weeks ago, I switched over to the Google version of Feedburner for my RSS feed (since Google owns Feedburner now, they’re transitioning to feedburner.google.com), and my subscriber numbers instantly dropped by about 20%. Either the stats on one or the other are screwed up, or they dropped a bunch of my readers. Anyone [...]

2008 09 08 Sandy Kemsley Comments (2)

Let’s all play nice, now

Amazing what happens when people lose sight of the need for civility in blog comments, just as they might exhibit in a face-to-face business conversation. For posts on someone else’s blog where I add a comment, or where I’m interested in following the discussion, I tag it in co.mments.com and subscribe to it in my [...]

2008 09 03 Sandy Kemsley Comments (2)

I’m back!

I was off last week for a vacation in Iceland (photos), which explains why it was pretty quiet around here. It wasn’t my first trip there; I also visited in December 2003 (photos), at the complete opposite in terms of daylight hours, and loved it at both times of year for different reasons. I also [...]

2008 07 01 Sandy Kemsley Comments (0)

Enterprise 2.0: Micro-blogging Panel

Dennis Howlett hosted a panel on micro-blogging (with a strong focus on Twitter, but not exclusively) that also included Chris Brogan of CrossTechMedia, Loren Feldman of 1938 Media, Rachel Happe of IDC and Laura Fitton of Pistachio Consulting. Although not explicitly stated in the session description, the focus was on the adoption of micro-blogging in [...]

2008 06 12 Sandy Kemsley E2 conf Comments (4)

What’s on Page 123

James Taylor tagged me in the recent blogging meme, “What’s on Page 123″, where I have to write about the book that I’m currently reading, and quote the 6th to 8th sentences on page 123. I always have a few books on the go, but just started re-reading Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, by [...]

2008 05 20 Sandy Kemsley Comments (1)

Media relations, the old-fashioned way

I attend a lot of conferences, and blog about them while I’m there. This is good for me in a couple of ways: it gives me lots of things to write about, hence increases my blog readership and therefore my exposure to potential customers and networking contacts, and I usually learn something by attending conference [...]

2008 05 19 Sandy Kemsley Comments (6)

Twittering events

I’ve started to Twitter, but haven’t really got into it to the same degree that others have. However, I’m fascinated by the uses that organizations are starting to make of it, like a Twitter stream coming from EMC World over the next 3 days.

2008 05 19 Sandy Kemsley Comments (0)

IT360: Social Networking for Business

I’m dropping in on a few sessions at the IT360 conference being held in Toronto this week — nice to be able to walk a conference for a change — and attended John Reid of CATA Alliance talking about the value of social networking for business. He’s a stand-in-the-audience sort of guy, and is standing [...]

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WordPress upgrade complete

I’ve upgraded WordPress to version 2.5, and the Barthelme theme to version 4.5 (which is only compatible with WP2.5+). Let me know if you see any problems with the site. One problem that I had with upgrading: I use widgets in my sidebar, including three text widgets for my feed block, my Google ads, and [...]

2008 03 29 Sandy Kemsley Comments (0)

WordPress upgrade today

WordPress 2.5 has been released, and I’ll be upgrading today, plus upgrading to the latest version of the Barthelme theme that I use on this site. If you see any weirdness on the site, that’s likely the cause, and I’ll get things back to normal as soon as possible.

2008 03 29 Sandy Kemsley Comments (0)

Column 2 turns 3

Zoli Erdos and Seth Godin have it right: when it comes to getting hired, you don’t need a resume, you need a blog. A blog that you’ve been writing for a while contains a much more complete picture of you, and forms more than just an online portfolio, it broadcasts your personal brand. How appropriate [...]

2008 03 18 Sandy Kemsley business Comments (7)

Blogging conferences

It seems that some conferences still aren’t plugged into the blogosphere as a PR engine, including some from surprising quarters. I applied for a press pass to next week’s O’Reilly’s ETech back in January via the press link on their site, and after a couple of weeks received the following reply from a Maureen Jennings, [...]

2008 02 28 Sandy Kemsley ·conferences Comments (4)

WordPress fact o’ the day: fun with feeds

I’m browsing through the new WordPress For Dummies book, with the assumption that even though I’ve been using WordPress for a couple of years and am reasonably comfortable hacking small bits of the code, there’s always some tidbit to be learned. It took me until page 147, but here it is: you can get a [...]

2007 12 21 Sandy Kemsley Comments (0)

Happy Holidays!

As we enter the countdown to Christmas, I thought that I’d add a bit of holiday cheer to the blog. Enjoy the theme!

2007 12 18 Sandy Kemsley Comments (0)

Fun with feeds

For those of you who subscribe to my feed instead of reading this directly, you’ll notice the new copyright notice and link to the post that’s included at the top of each post in the feed. Although I haven’t had a full-on feed theft of the scale that I experienced back in March, I do [...]

2007 12 12 Sandy Kemsley Comments (1)