Allan Cockerill

A business consultant and copywriter based in Bathurst NSW Australia specializing in search engine friendly web content and social media. Founder and CEO of This Writer For Hire/Allan Cockerill Services, Allan helps businesses to get their conversation right in the market place! Allan also ghosts writes for select professional clients, and is able to "translate" industry jargon into copy that is easy to read and comprehend. Current clients include a large international legal firm, a well known anthropologist and a number of hospitality businesses.

Joined: September 7, 2007
Articles: 439
Comments: 280

News

Ebay Fails To Force Users To Use PayPal

ONLINE auction site eBay has failed in its bid to force Australian customers to use PayPal to pay for items on the auction website. The move by Ebay would have meant that users would have had just two payment alternatives:…

Privacy and Liberties

And The Most Secure IM Network Is…

I made a post here the other day about a recent Cnet survey which was conducted to see which Instant Message Service available was the most secure. Services surveyed included AOL Instant Messenger, Google Talk, IBM’s Lotus Sametime, Facebook Chat,…

Privacy and Liberties

How Secure Is Your Instant Message Service

One of the easiest ways of staying in touch online for almost twelve years has been via Instant Message Services. ICQ became the first Internet-wide instant messaging service, being released in November 1996. How secure are IM services though? With…

News

Back To The Future With Firefox And Google

After all the battles that Google had in forcing Microsoft to allow freedom of choice when it came to search providers, it would make sense that they would uphold the same standards, right? According to Search Engine Land, Google is…

Allan Cockerill
June 9, 2008