Off-​​Topic: Xara Designer Pro 6

I was asked to review the latest release of Xara’s graphic design software, Xara Designer Pro 6. Since I’ve been a fan of the applic­a­tion for a while, I was happy to oblige. I ought to disclose that Xara sent me a free key.

You might not realise it, but Xara is one of the real

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Book Review: Create Your Own Blog

So thanks again to Pearson Education for sending me books to review. This time it’s Create Your Own Blog: 6 Easy Projects to Start Blogging Like a Pro by Canadian blogger Tris Hussey. It’s cur­rently £10.26 on Amazon UK and has 272 pages.

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Book Review: Blogging to Drive Business

Many thanks to Pearson Education for sending me two recent books about blogging for review. The first of these is Blogging to Drive Business by Eric Butow and Rebecca Bollwitt. It seems that Eric has written the more business and strategy-​​​​centric chapters, and Rebecca the more prac­tical inform­a­tion about

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Book Review: Bringing Nothing to the Party

On Amazon, this book is tagged ‘liar’, ‘alcohol’, ‘sociopath’ and ‘jail’. But also with ‘entre­preneur’, ‘web 2.0′ and ‘dotcom’. It should probably also be tagged ‘genius raconteur’.

The book tells the tale of Paul Carr’s suc­cessful begin­nings — a pub­lished author while still at uni­ver­sity, a Guardian colum­nist a couple of years later and a blogs-​​​​to-​​​​books pub­lisher shortly

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Creative Collaboration

One for the agency folk.

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Found another copy!

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