Blogging for your business
If you run an e-commerce site, or if you sell your brand’s products online, you need a blog.
Of course, we’re biased because we create blogs for a living — but don’t just take our word for it. We’ve put together a presentation that explains why your business needs a blog, along with some great examples of companies whose online presence has been *transformed* by including blogging in their social media marketing strategy.
Why your business needs a blog
If you need a blog for your business and you don’t know where to start. Get in touch with Katie at Miramus — we’d love to help!
Miramus presents Dork Adore: Lovely things for geeks
We’ve been busy working away on a brand new project over here at Miramus. Please allow me to present to you Dork Adore: Lovely Things for Geeks. A special haven we’ve set up for nerdlingers.
Here’s the blurb:
Dork Adore is brought to you by Katie Lee, founding editor of Shiny Shiny – the first gadgets site written by women for women. Dork Adore isn’t here to give you the latest tech press releases, it’s here to provide the best advice, opinion, reviews and the odd bit of geek news.
Since the site is written by a group of dorks, you’ll find every obsession covered, from TV to beauty; lifehacks to coffee makers. If you want to get in touch, click here.
Please feel free to have a mooch about, maybe click on a few links and read a few articles. And if you’d like to leave us some comments, or email me with any non-crazy thoughts, please do! You can use the contact form on Dork Adore here.
The site is written by Emma and me, as well as lots of very lovely contributors and you can find out more about all of them over on the About page.
Parentdish Update
As you may already know, we’ve been working on AOL’s Parentdish UK site for a while now, and it’s been enjoying a successful few months of late, including a steady increase in traffic, some great articles that have spawned some interesting discussions, and an entry into the Top 100 British Mummy Bloggers!
The British Mummy Bloggers list is updated monthly and voted for by blog readers, so it’s encouraging to see that we’re moving up the chart each time it’s published.
We have a strong writing team at the moment, and so we’re not currently looking for any more regular writers. However, we would like to hear from you if you have any one-off feature ideas. Please contact us here with your pitch.
Don’t forget, you can also follow Parentdish on Twitter.
All new Katielee.co.uk – complete with fancy “K” favicon
Well, blogging on Miramus didn’t last too long and, after Shaa told me off for having such a pitiful personal site, I finally cracked and spent an entire Sunday asking Al how to do things with a fancy WordPress template.
So now, if you’re looking for my personal blog, it’s over on Katielee.co.uk, where you can also find out about various little projects I’m working on. I’ll save the big news for the Miramus blog – though we seem to be working on an awful lot of TOP SECRET projects at the moment, which makes it quite hard to talk about new things.
Sky Sports HD means I’m watching the Ashes in the past
Having the cricket on in the background is one of the myriad benefits of working from home. But it’s not so great for Al, who works in the room next door. The room without the TV in.
Initially, he resolved this issue by using the Sky Player to stream the Ashes onto his Mac, but it kept buffering at vital moments, and we both got fed up with him stealing all the internet: BT Home Hubs aren’t designed for two web heads on wireless connections.
Instead, he bowed to the inevitable and took the retrograde step of tuning into the radio to listen to the cricket commentary like normal, Skyless people.
This has led to an interesting phenomenon, which I’ve noticed many times over the years and usually moaned about. However, in this case, it’s actually been quite handy.
It turns out, when you watch Sky HD, you are watching everything in the past thanks to the time lag. You’ll have noticed it when you switch from low-def to high def, but the time difference is even more pronounced if you’re listening to the radio.
Back in the World Cup, this time difference took the edge off penalty shoot outs because we could hear the neighbours down the road cheering or groaning a few seconds before we saw the player take the shot. We ended up enduring the stifling heat and watching with the windows shut.
But this time all it means is every time there’s a wicket Al comes running in to watch it and I look up from my monitor to catch the moment “live” for myself. It’s proved a very useful time lag and means that I’ve enjoyed the best bits of the cricket without having to watch the dreary afternoon slouch towards a draw.
So while I’m enjoying the edited highlights of the Ashes, Al’s getting a regular break from his screen with those room-to-room jogs.
