Book
Robin’s first book, ‘Blogging for Creatives’ (June 2012) is published by Ilex Press and available to buy from Amazon.
Blogging
Robin’s business blog since 2007 has been the Eggblogg, now absorbed into this website. Before that, her blog was called E-Tips and she operated a successful monthly newsletter by that title for several years. She is an experienced guest blogger, having written for Social Media Today, Marketing Profs, The Marketing Society, the Friday-Ad blog and others.
Features / Editorial
Robin has written many features and articles for print magazines, newspapers and websites over the years. An archive of some of these can be found here.
Copywriting
Robin is an experienced copywriter for print and online. Samples from Robin Houghton’s copywriting portfolio can be found here.
Academic writing
Back in 2000, Robin Houghton completed an MA in Digital Media at the University of Sussex. Her research interests focused on email in the workplace and online community. Follow the links below if you would like to read her term papers and final dissertation (PDF files). Final mark: distinction.
e-mail in the workplace: an overview of its usage and effects (Dec 99)
One small episode of hegemonic struggle and cultural change: the ‘Millennium Prayer’ controversy (Dec 99)
Exploring conventional and alternative ways of navigating around an informational website (April 2000) – accompanying report to a web project
Strategies of online discourse (August 2000) – Final dissertation arguing that the social organisation of a text-based, online community is formed, maintained and modified through the verbal interaction of its citizens.
Poetry
Robin’s poems have been published in The Rialto, Poetry News, The North, Obsessed with Pipework, Iota, Agenda and others. Her poetry and musings blog is Poetgal.
