Strattons Hotel is a changing landscape

Hey, have you visited Strattons Hotel recently, the garden has completely been re-landscaped and it looks amazing. For a preview http://www.strattonshotel.co.uk . And the changes don't stop there, as their new development of 2 Eco suites, 2 doubles, a deli, Trade show/ meeting space, and a further 2 rooms are all to come later in the year. http://www.norfolkboutiques.co.uk has been given the task of seamlessly joining these without any lines. I have to also mention Hannah Scotts Caterer Acorn Award for 2009. Amazing award presented to an amazing girl, well done!

The trick to twitter

I am so fed up with people who twitter too much. My whole window is full of their tweets. Its a bit like real life, trying to drift away from the twitterers before they notice your not listening. Whats worse about these tweeters is that they don't even twitter about anything, its just, "I'm on the beach", "look at this story, look at that". If you want an inconsistent, real twitterer follow me www.twitter.com/djsh and if you don't bore me I might follow you back.

Google map on my blog.

I had to see if it worked! Google map on my blog, where can I put it next and what else could I get it to do. It was so easy, I think!?


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Searching for the meaning of the Web

Over the past few months I have been having a bloody good go at electronic socialising, search engine optimization and generally trying to get connected. As you know my original site is www.norfolkboutiquehotels.co.uk and www.norfolkboutiques.co.uk , which has taken the majority of my focus. This site was developed with the knowledge gained from a business link internet optimization course and picking the brains of any techie I come across. Since then it’s been about getting links back to my island (the internet site) so that lots of people know about it and can get there as well as Mr Google taking note that it exists. This began with http://www.uklinkexchange.co.uk/display_search.asp?search=norfolk+boutiques&GO=Search uk Link exchange, putting sites in contact with each other to trade links. I have also emails a good list of local businesses to trade links.
And then comes the social networking sites of which I have twitter, so please follow me and keep me up to date with what you have been up to http://twitter.com/djsh . Join my facebook group http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=84540988964 . I even have a linked in account, although I only have one friend http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dom-hughes/12/760/74 so I’m open for offers.

Million dollar homepage

I have just remembered the origins of my love for the internet, http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ . And whats great is that the site still exists even though by the owners own omissions, it has not been updated since 2006 if not long before. This was an inivative basic idea that worked. While others where busy building sites to power the work this guy just set up a page of pictures with hyperlinks and sold them at 1$ a pixel. Mind you, those who brought into it I image got their money worth from a one off fee. Look Ebay is on there bottom left, But it doesny work like many of the adds the companies have stopped operating. Oh well maybe the net isnt forever for everyone

Can I keep up with all the twitter

Twitter has exploded! Over the past 2 weeks alone I have read 5 or more articles about how small businesses are utilising its massive world wide web reach. Both Strattons hotel www.twitter.com/Strattonshotel and Norfolk boutiques www.twitter.com/djsh have a place. But there is one thing to be said, its hard to keep up. Look at my frequency on the old blogging thing. I manage about a blog a month at max and that's pushing it! Now I'm checking my twitter account 2, 3, 4 or more times a day to keep up with what Stephen fry has been up to on his world tour. The line with twitter is to mix business messages with day to day chatter. Maybe I should document a life in the day of mittens or one of the chickens to keep the messages flowing. Mittens could have a fan club! Well now that I only use to typing 160 characters I have lost my momentum. so over and out for now

www.twitter.com

Strattons Hotel is twittering http://twitter.com/Strattonshotel and so am I http://twitter.com/djsh . It is so addictive though. With blogging you have to try to compose at least a paragraph which takes for ever and then I only do it about once in a blue moon. Tweeting is like facebook but without the distractions of pictures and games