The Information Commissioner’s Office states that they will try and resolve things informally to begin [...]]]> While the new EU Cookie Law will come into force on May26th after a year’s grace designed to give website owners time to take steps towards compliance, it is unlikely that there will be any forceful action to begin with.

The Information Commissioner’s Office states that they will try and resolve things informally to begin with at least, and that there report on what companies can do to comply even states that full compliance may not be necessary anyway. UTalkMarketing gives 10 top tips for compliance and notes in one of these that:

[Y]ou probably don’t want to do more than the very minimum according to interpretation of the regulator’s own words. For example, take a look at page 16 of the Information Commissioner’s guidance published December last year which suggests that strict ‘opt-in’ is NOT necessarily required provided you ‘prominently’ display the relevant cookie information and choices to the user

Read “Ten top tips on what marketers can do to prepare for the EU Cookie Directive” at UTalkMarketing

However, not going for full compliance doesn’t mean zero compliance and at the very least companies would be advised to undertake a cookie audit and update their privacy policy. For more information on how I can help you with your cookie audit please get in contact, either by calling or using the contact form.

89% of UK consumers think that the EU cookie law is a positive step, though 75% had not heard of the e-Privacy Directive before [...]]]> According to a blog post at Econsultancy the majority of the public thinks that the new Cookie Law, which comes into force later this month, is a positive move.The reports says:

89% of UK consumers think that the EU cookie law is a positive step, though 75% had not heard of the e-Privacy Directive before they were surveyed.

However, the concludes that most consumers have nothing to fear from cookies and note that on the whole they are a good thing; that analytics are nothing to worry about – and can actually be used to improve the user experience – but while advertising cookies and retargetting cookies may be objectionable there are easy ways to block them anywway.

Read “89% of UK consumers think the EU cookie law is a positive step, but is it?” at Econsultancy

This comprehensive Google+ SEO guide covers every aspect and angle of Google+ and how it impacts search. My normal TL;DR has been replaced with a Google+ SEO Best Practices section located at [...]]]> If you’re struggling to understand the implications of Google+ on SEO, a good in-depth guide will take you through it in some detail:

This comprehensive Google+ SEO guide covers every aspect and angle of Google+ and how it impacts search. My normal TL;DR has been replaced with a Google+ SEO Best Practices section located at the bottom of this post.

Read “The Ultimate Google+ SEO Guide” at Blind Five Year Old

In my original article I talked about saving content from my iPhone in to Dropbox to synch it [...]]]> A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about using Siri to create content. Since then I’ve been playing more with Siri in my workflow, and have got a number of ways of working with “him”.

In my original article I talked about saving content from my iPhone in to Dropbox to synch it to my computer, but since then I realised there was an easier way; you can use Siri to dictate straight into Evernote and save the article which will sync with your desktop. Once the article syncs to desktop, simply edit the article and there you have it.

This is a great way for writing content to submit to Article Samurai. For my main business, I employ a writer to produce a regular content and submit summaries to Article Samurai and other article directories to dripfeed backlinks to that content. The easy way to do that is to either create a mind map and then talk about the article, or alternatively, read through the main article and then summarise the main points as you get to them straight to Siri. I do that in Evernote and then edit the article to create a article superfast.

Another tip for quick blog posts: what I am doing at the moment is dictating to Siri direct in the WordPress iPhone app. I save the blog post in draft mode and then edit on my computer later. That’s exactly what I’m doing right now!

That’s it, as dictated to Siri and edited by me.

Like many people I’ve recently bought an iPhone 4S and as you probably know one of the features it has is the personal assistant Siri.

To be honest I’m a bit mixed about Siri because on one hand he (I’m using the British English version of Siri which is a man’s voice) [...]]]>

Like many people I’ve recently bought an iPhone 4S and as you probably know one of the features it has is the personal assistant Siri.

To be honest I’m a bit mixed about Siri because on one hand he (I’m using the British English version of Siri which is a man’s voice) on one hand works great for setting an alarm clock or calling a phone number then on the other hand he doesn’t really work very well when I’m trying to find information on the Internet.

I’m constantly been told by him that I can only use a function if I’m searching in US English looking for U.S.-based businesses and one thing that I can’t get it to work at all for is to remind me to do something when I arrive or leave a place and keeps telling me that he can do it but I can’t get it to work.

One thing that I’ve also found Siri’s good for is dictating notes. He seems to get the dictation pretty much spot on which is a good thing definitely. Recently though I had the idea of using, Siri or at least testing Siri, as a new workflow to create content.

The workflow goes something like this::

Create mind map
Dictate article to a text document
Save document to Dropbox
Edit article the following day on a computer
Submit article to Article Samurai

While that sounds like a pretty good workflow to test I’m not sure that Siri’s up to it. And I also had the idea that since I’ve got the WordPress app on my iPhone I would be able to dictate an article to Siri like I’m doing at the moment, and then edit the article before submitting or submitting the article in draft mode before the editing it later on the computer and that’s what I’m just testing at the moment.

I’m going to post both what Siri thinks I said as well as the edited article and you’ll be up to judge yourself at least in this first iteration of the process.

Be interesting to see how it turns out, I’ve got a feeling that it’s not hearing me, it’s not understanding.

And I’m not sure whether it understands my accent very well, I am not sure why.

Above: quick edit of text dictated to Siri. Normally I’d edit it more to create a better article, but this should give an idea of what I (think) I said. And below: what Siri THINKS I said.

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Save document to drumbox
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Submit article to article samurai

While that sounds like a pretty good workflow to test I’m not sure that series up to it. And I also had the idea that since I’ve got the WordPress app on my iPhoneI would be able to dictate an article is to Siri like I’m doing at the moment, and then edit the article before submitting or submitting the article in draft mode before the editing it later on the computer and that’s what I’m just testing at the moment.

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OK, I think the result isn’t bad, although I struggled to work out what I’d said in places and could have done with the audio to double check.I’ll be testing this during this week and see if I can improve on the results as I can rattle a 300+ word article in no time at all using this method.