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Building a Brand

Today is my 12th anniversary. I registered AdamWelch.Co.Uk on the 6th of February 2002. Nominet Listing

I don’t think I knew it at the time, but on that day I started building a brand. My digital footprint had come much earlier, I was lucky enough to get online at home in 1995. I took to the internet quickly – I could find out facts, publish my opinions and even talk to people across the globe. My first website went live within weeks of getting online. For my first few years online, I did this all through an alias, hidden behind a silly name.

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Your very own URL shortening service

So I expanded on my Twitpic service in this post admw.tv/l. However people keep asking me in the street, Adam, how do you make those little web addresses on your site, and on twitter? Well let me tell you…
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DNS Issues

My name server host has been down this afternoon. I was trying a small unknown company who had four servers around the world, but were based in Russia. I’ve come back to good old blighty, in the mean time.

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Twittering

I’ve been working really hard over the last few days on this site. If anyone has visited over the last few days, you won’t have noticed any difference, but work has been going on behind scenes.

I’ve started twittering to take advantage of some of the things I’ve developed on my new site. I’m quite proud of two things in particular.

1. I’ve bought another new domain; admw.eu is my new super short domain, I am using it to host my own twitter pics, just like twitpic or yfrog. The difference is that the copyright stays with me, as does the traffic. So if I end up taking an image that gets broadcast around the globe, I can make the money from it!

2. I’m using my domain adamw.eu (my next shortest domain) to create a url shortening service. Using the url shortening system yoURLs, I can make this posts URL to adamw.eu/i from adamwelch.co.uk/2011/10/twittering. Clever eh and really useful in tweets and facebook status’?

It’s all very geeky, but I’m a geek and a proud geek at that! Oh, and this post should be tweeted within the next few minutes on my twitter account @AW_101

Hello world!

Here we are again. Another month, another site redesign.

I’ve decided to try good old WordPress once more. I found a website created in WP with one of these lovely grid themes. It looked fantastic, and I hope I can make mine look pretty good too.

I did try google sites, I think I gave it a good shot but there was one issue which I couldn’t get round. When you post a blog (sorry “announcement”), the RSS feed always shows your full email address. Great for spammers, rubbish for me. I searched high and low, but that’s the way it is say google.

I’ll still be using google for all my email needs, and it’s currently fullfilling all my document needs, but sadly it lacked in the website field.

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COMM – The Tangent

I was pleased as punch recently to have recieved my copy of ‘COMM’ by The Tangent through the front door. All of the albums released by the band been fantastic, the sixth studio album however holds a special little place in my heart.

Track four “The Tech Support Guy” tells the story of a typical day in the life of me! Although there are undoubtably harder jobs in the world, the song tries to explain how IT support are often thought to be the scourge of any organisation, when we’re all just men and women trying to do a good job. Have you ever rung your technical support department to congratulate them that everything is working perfectly? I bet you haven’t.

Why not go buy the track on Amazon or iTunes? Even better, toddle over to thetangent.org and buy the CD direct. I *will* love you forever.

Thanks