Archive for August, 2007
Power to the people! How social networking sites can influence change.
Friday, August 31st, 2007I’ve always believed that people like the relatively anonymous nature of contacting companies via email and website contact forms. I know when I’m faced with the options of calling, emailing or using an online form I choose to email or use the form. So, perhaps that’s why 2 stories that illustrate how internet users are […]
Online Marketing, Webdesign Podcasts
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007I’ve been listening to Podcasts for a while now, I love them, but I’ve had to sift through some fairly horrific examples. To make life easier for those interested in the same field, I’ve put together some of my personal recommendations.
Online Marketing Podcasts
Academy Internet is a UK based company which produces the Internet Marketing Podcast. […]
What Are Social Media Aggregators and Branded RSS Feeds?
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007RSS
Due to the widespread use of RSS* it’s become easier to pull in information, content, images, audio, news and comments from various locations and output in an easily digestible, or even branded display.
* RSS is an abbreviation for many terms which attempt to describe the phenomenon, but most commonly ‘Really Simple Syndication‘. Wikipedia and […]
MetroSalvage ‘Scraps’ Old Site
Friday, August 24th, 2007Bolton based, Car Scrap Yard, MetroSalvage Ltd have ‘scrapped’ their old website in favor for a newly built site by Tickle, the UK multimedia solutions team.
MetroSalvage are experts in Car Auto Salvage and End-of-Life Vehicle processing. So if you would like to earn some money for scrapping your car or buy some Salvaged Car Parts […]
Anthony H Wilson: Irritating and Obnoxious?
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007I can’t say that I cared for Tony Wilson. I didn’t know him personally and on the very rare occasions that I was in the same room as him, I wished I wasn’t. But that’s hardly the measure of the man. I still listen to Joy Division just about every week and marvel at its’ […]
What is Social Network Service Marketing?
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007Someone once said that you tend to do business with people that you know, like and trust. In this increasingly digital environment in which we transact, I suppose it is almost blindingly obvious that social networks would need to evolve, not only to manage online relationships as they evolve, but also to enable relationships of […]
Do Social Networks Invade Your Privacy?
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007With a growing number of professional, educational and recreational ‘networks’ on Facebook are individual users losing the freedom to behave in a way that they deem fit?
In the past few months we’ve read about Oxford University students being fined for their post exam celebrations and how employers are using facebook to do background checks on […]
Facebook causes blue screen of death!!
Monday, August 13th, 2007While attempting to upload some of my photos from the weekend onto Facebook, the online social networking site, my PC blue screened on several occasions.
Thinking that it was an issue related to my PC I attempted to have a go uploading some photos from another machine and again I received a ‘blue screen of death’ […]
Womb with a view on Facebook
Monday, August 13th, 2007A baby has become a star of the Internet even before it has been born.
‘Bubba’ Waring is three months away from entering the real world but already has its own Facebook page.
The foetus’s page on the social networking site features ultrasound scans and the proud parents are regularly updating his actions.
One family friend has […]
Integrated Marketing Communications - Offline Advertising for Websites
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007This is a bit of an old story, but one I thought was appropriate to dig up… comedy value and good pictures more than anything else.
In 2005 Golden Palace bid for advertising space in novel offline locations to promote their online business.
If ever the phrase “seemed like a good idea at the time” was more […]