The following articles are tagged with ‘In Practice’ in our library of resources.
Tags 2, from Case Apps, is a lightweight tagging and tag browsing tool for the Mac that is clean, fast and elegant — and so unobtrusive that you could conceivably use it almost every day for half a year before remembering to write about it… Plus, if you ever encountered the software in its previous version, forget everything you thought you knew about it: Tags 2 is way better (not to mention better-looking) than the original.
A basic grasp of marketing will help you both to articulate to others (potential clients, employers, etc.) what value your service has for them, and to understand something of the competitive landscape within which your own particular mental health service operates.
Whether you’re just starting out and looking for basic marketing tips, or whether you’ve been in practice for a long time and want to fine tune your efforts to increase traffic to your web site, this section provides some tools you may find useful in building, marketing and managing your private practice.
A valuable component of your search engine marketing tool box, Alexa can help you gather independent information about the relative traffic levels and visitor numbers to your own practice site as well as other websites. A separate article explores measuring your own traffic at the server level.
Having evaluated literally dozens of different project time tracking applications, I’m convinced that for my purposes as an individual practitioner and consultant, OfficeTime is exactly the right one for me.
Within the mental health profession in the UK, there seems to be a widespread perception that practitioners are exempt from registering under the Data Protection Act 1998. To my mind, this seems like collective professional self-deception.
Every domain legally registered with ICANN for use on the internet has a WHOIS database entry; by checking the WHOIS database, you can learn about the ownership and related details of other sites.
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