By Michelle V. Rafter on February 1, 2008
Companies use blogs and social networks to keep customers informed and employees happy. But Web 2.0 technologies can open the door to corporate spies and hackers, which is why if a company uses them, they also need strong security policies for protection. You can read more on the subject in my new story, Keeping Web [...]
Posted in My stories, Technology, Web 2.0 | Tagged Blogs, IncTechnology.com, Michelle Vranizan Rafter, Security, Social Networks, Web 2.0 |
By Michelle V. Rafter on January 25, 2008
Newspapers see the future, and it’s digital. The latest evidence: earlier this week the New York Times Co. and three other investors sank $29.5 million into Automattic, the company that makes WordPress blogging software runs the WordPress.com free blogging Website. (Disclaimer: I use WordPress.com to create and host this blog.) According to a news report, [...]
Posted in Blogs, Freelancing, Media Business, Newspapers, Technology, Web 2.0, Writing | Tagged About.com, Akismet, Automattic, Blogger, Blogging, Blogs, E.W. Scripps, Google, Los Angeles Times, Movable Type, New York Times, newspaper business sections, Newspapers, Orange County Register, Publishing, Publishing 2.0, Russ Stanton, Six Apart, TypePad, Wall Street Journal, WordPress, WordPress.com, World Economic Forum |
By Michelle V. Rafter on December 31, 2007
Here’s to the New Year! Watch this space for links to my stories online, links to great resources for writers and freelancers, and much more.
Posted in Freelancing, Writing | Tagged articles, Blogs, freelancers, stories, Writing |
By Michelle V. Rafter on September 13, 2007
I taught myself HTML in 1995 for one of my first freelance pieces. I learned enough of the basics to to create a simple Web site, but never really progressed beyond that. Flash forward a dozen years. Has it really been a dozen years? Services like WordPress, TypePad and Blogger make creating Web pages so [...]
Posted in Freelancing, Writing | Tagged Blogs, career, HTML, Michelle Vranizan Rafter, Writing |