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Blogging for Charity – should improve their Google page rank

Posted on June 19, 2007 by paulbrowne

I’ve been tagged by Ken to carry on Gavin’s blogging for charity idea. I’ve twisted the idea a little as rather than repeat an ever expanding list, I’ll add two of my own and highlight two on Ken’s List:

Irish Red Cross
Samaritans
Cancer.ie – Irish Cancer Society
Irish Hospice Foundation – Hospice and palliative care in Ireland
Barnardos – Ireland’s leading children’s charity
The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity – Polish Charity
CPR For Schools Across Poland – CPR Training
Program of Insulin Pumps in Diabetic Children Therapy – Insulin Pumps For Children
Non-invasive Neonatal Breathing Support – Infant Flow
Program of Universal Neonatal Hearing Screenings – Neonatal Hearing
American Red Cross – disaster relief
Raleigh Rescue Mission – homeless raleigh
Samaritan’s Purse – emergency relief programs
St. Jude Children’s Hospital – cancer research
Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders – Humanitarian Relief
American Red Cross – Emergency Preparedness
AMREF – African Medical & Research Foundation – African Health Development
DOROT – Programs for Elderly
Feed the Children – Protect Children
Service International – Disaster Relief
Pujols Family Foundation – Children with Down Syndrome
National Alliance to End Homelessness – Homelessness
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research – Parkinson’s Research
Ronald McDonald Care Mobile Program – Child Healthcare
Aids Research Alliance – Aids Research
Wildlife Conservation Society – Wildlife Protection
Cancer Research Institute – Cancer Research
Second Harvest – End Hunger
AARP Foundation – Helping Senior Citizens
Bubblegum Club – Children In Crisis
Autism NI – Autism Northern Ireland
Adoption Ireland – Irish Adoption Charity
Ireland Funds – Peace and Reconciliation In Ireland
Dublin Simon Community – Combating Homelessness in Dublin

To continue the flow , I tag the following people:

Free Search Engine Optimisation

Posted on February 13, 2007 by paulbrowne

To take up on Richard’s Kind Offer to all Irish Blog Award nominees.

Just a little background on your website.
- category you are nominated;
  Best Business / Best Technology Blogger
- your blog’s topic or niche;
  Enterprise Development and Technology used by Business.
- your target audience;
  Decision Makers within the Top 500 Irish Companies.
- how long you’ve been blogging; 2 yrs +
- how old is your domain; 7 Years
- the names/URLs of a few other sites, competitors or friends, in your niche ;
  Similar Audience to Silicon Republic , Zdnet , Irish Times Business Section.
Trackback Done
Tell me what you want to achieve SEO wise;
Have the Technology audience (fairly) well covered, want to improve my exposure to Business people with a technical interest.

Free Drinks at the Irish Blog Awards

Posted on February 5, 2007 by paulbrowne

Final Results for Round 2 of this challenge are now here.

In a recent challenge , Ken McGuire crushed all opposition by reaching 100 subscribers on Feedburner before anybody else could roll out a shameless self publicity campaign.

So , to give everybody a chance, we’re going for another round. You can join in at any point (leave a comment below to get included).

The rules are simple : The person who gets the biggest % increase in FeedBurner subscribers (that’s the number on the top right of the blog) between now and the Irish Blog Awards wins. Prize is a pint. And yes, all is fair in Love, War and trying to up your Blog numbers.

To subscribe to this blog (we really can’t afford to lose twice in a row, the price of drink in Dublin being so high), click on the Orange XML icon on the top right of this page. If you’re not automatically asked to subscribe , you may want to sign up to a service such as Bloglines. Subscribing means that you’ll automatically be updated on who is in the lead.

Due to popular demand (and the fact Damien will have 17 Squintillion subscribers before next Tuesday) we’ll probably have a round 3 after this one. If you want in , leave a comment. Remember, it’s all about the percent increase, so it’s an advantage to start small.

And the Contenders are …

Blog	Start	Current
Ken McGuire Creative Imaginations	103
Conor O’Neill- Louder Voice	44
Aidan Finn AidanF.net	84
James Corbett – Eirepreneur	480
Robin Blandford – ByteSurgery	42
Tom Raftery – IT views	751
Paul Browne – Technology in Plain English	96
Richard Hearne – Red Cardinal	85
Thomas Holmes – YClickIt	113
Eoghan McCage – Naive by Design	35
Damien Mulley – Blog AwardsHonorary Lifetime Member – 1200% increase in first 24 hours	6
Damian O’Broin- Ask Direct	23

Older News1):The most Recent entrant is Richard Hearne of Red Cardinal. With the SEO Ninja tricks this man has up his sleeve, he’s going to be a fairly strong contender.2): Mon Dieu! Thomas Holmes has entered. Almost certain to use a 2 language blogging strategy to take the title, how will the other competitors react?3): Eoghan is in. Damien and Damian may be in. Are there going to be any other last minute entries?

4) In a shock last minute move:

Damien Mulley forgoes his 400+ base and opts to start again with the Irish Blog Awards feed (6 readers). Rumour has it that we may as well buy the man a pint now, while the rest of us scrap it out for second place (prize – diet coke with ice). We did say almost anything was fair game … 🙂

5) In another shock first day wipeout: Damien Mulley has increased his total by 1200% using a little known site called the Irish Blog Awards. I’ll check the small change down the back of the sofa , buy Damien the pint, and the rest of us mere mortals can continue on to see who gets pint number 3.

Just who is Paul Browne, Digital Video Research?

Posted on January 15, 2007 by paulbrowne

Well, it’s not me. Despite my best efforts at blogging over 2 years (and a bit of Search Engine Optimization), a Google for ‘Paul Browne’ shows that I am only number 3 on the list. Even worse , the ‘Dr Paul Browne (PHD) DCU’ hasn’t been updated for 3 years. What do I need to do to get to number 1, get Twenty Major to take out a hit on this guy?
Paul Browne Search on Google

On a related note, Jason Kolb has a list of things to do to protect your online identity (good). John Breslin has a list of (bad things to avoid) and we’ve blogged about this notion of ‘blogs as the new CV‘ in that future employers will want to be checking out your blog (as a harder to fake version of your CV).

Update: As of Sept 2007, a Google Search for Paul Browne now shows this blog in No 1. position (unless Google are doing some fancy personalisation of searches. Next step will be to trademark (or even better find a way to Patent) the name and charge all the other Paul Browne’s for it use.