According to my grandad blogging is a waste of time. In our conversation 4 falsehoods were mentioned which I feel compelled to debunk. Falsehood #1: Blogging can’t generate an income Are you willing to sell your soul? If you do then you could get an organisation to sponsor a blog post. I have done. Companies have paid up to £50 for their content to dwell on this blog loaded with a couple of backlinks... 

If last year had anything to go by then I have at least another 108 posts to write during 2012. Whilst I am pleased with the performance of mikewhite.co.uk last year, the blog has still not reached “where I would like it to be”. It needs more traffic and higher engagement. Then I realised something crucial… I’m not giving back to the community Blogging during 2011 was mostly a case of sitting... 

Last year this blog had its best yet with an astounding 18,972 visits. Stat-tastic doesn’t quite honour this achievement and so below is my feeble attempt at creating an infographic. I hope this silences critics for my “so called” lack of graphical wizardry… go on, humour me.  Read More →

Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin whilst studying at Stanford University. The company’s mission statement was, “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”. Google has been said to actively inspire creativity within their employees which has resulted in many other Google Projects to appear over the years. The most influential of... 

Each day I read a variety of different blogs and the three listed below are my favourites. We should all take the below authors as examples to improve our own blogging and spend time appreciating the work they produce. Perhaps follow their blogs online and leave them a comment.   Nightmare Pixel Kyle Mullan tells stories designed to provoke, push social boundaries and to enchant readers down a path... 

As a small side project as part of my Public Relations course at the University of Gloucestershire it is necessary to put together a short branding guide. For this task I decided to focus on how I have gone about branding this blog over the last 3 years. If you have any questions please leave a comment below. If you would like to know how I have technically achieved any of this then I can cover... 

“Prepare for a marathon, not a sprint” – @behindthespin Guess what, @behindthespin (aka Richard) is absolutely correct. Student bloggers should be aware that starting a blog is part of a longer game. Some myths about student blogging: You will receive instant attention / online fame It will only provide a positive and rewarding experience Blogging is easy   Let’s not be pessimistic... 

I’m 21 years old yet I have been blogging in various forms over the last 6 years. Before 2005 I had no idea how blogging would have shaped my life. Now 6 years on I reminisce on what I have learnt and if I would have changed anything. Comments are Gold and Dust It is much easier to forget positive feedback than the negative. Negative comments build like dust and unless you brush them away it is... 

The question from the outset is complex. No secrets lie within the pages of the book Michael White, my life is fantastically normal. Yet somehow I have found the time over the last year to work full-time and keep this blog going. This is the 67th blog post of 2011 and I want to let you know how I do it. The Weekday Situation Being a Multinational Account Manager at Microsoft does not require me working... 

Whilst well known bloggers such as Darren Rowse and Chris Brogan discuss the benefits of linking your blog to Google+, they are in the minority. You see, collectively both users can boast: 251,474 FeedBurner Subscribers 330,133 Twitter Followers 33,732 Facebook ‘likes’ This is why both of them on Google+ have already been added to a collective figure of 22,510 circles. With so many loyal followers... 

It is roughly mid-year and it is time for a top 10 blog posts on mikewhite.co.uk… post. Based on data from Google Analytics I have compiled together the top 10 posts from this year so far. All the views are unique. Why I Quit Facebook (and you should too) – 512 Views Probably the most embarrising article I have written on this blog as my quit only lasted a few weeks. Still, this is a useful... 

As of the beginning of this month Microsoft launched their official UK intern and graduate blog Be Your Future. The project is being managed by a current intern called Lillian Hiscox and will be updated daily-ish with new content. The main aim of the blog is to show prospective Microsoft interns and graduates what it is like working for Microsoft and the lifestyle which comes with it. Already from...