Archive for July, 2008
« Previous EntriesMicrosoft Support Technician Job
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008Our friends Axon IT who do network support and maintenence are expanding rapidly. They need Windows based support engineers. If you are one or know one, get in touch with them. Agencies know what they can do!
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Shocking ROI for short term goverment site
Monday, July 21st, 2008Here’s a great example of a how not to go about creating a successful short term micro site.
The department for Children, Schools and families developed an interactive website aimed at encouraging children and “young people” to feedback their ideas and requirements for play spaces. The resulting website can be found at http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/playspace/
Apparantly the website cost [...]
Pay Per Click Marketing Course
Monday, July 21st, 2008I presented a short Pay Per Click Marketing course for small business owners in Manchester last week.
Here are the slides from the evening:
I’ll be doing another one in December, so keep an eye on the blog for the details.
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Google Analytics v Urchin
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008Google & Urchin Analytics Background
A common misconception is that Urchin is simply the old name for Google Analytics and is no-longer around. However Urchin is a product in its own right and has some key differences to its free cousin.
Urchin On Demand was an Analytics tool bought from Urchin Software Corporation by Google. To use [...]
GX Networks (ex PIPEX) aren’t managing their domain very well
Thursday, July 10th, 2008Maybe I’m being picky but I would expect a pretty major web company like GX Networks that owns a domain registration brand like 123-Reg and a webhosting outfit like webfusion to get their own domain management in order. If you look at the non www version of their domain (at the time of writing of [...]
Free Digital Media Conference in Manchester
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008Just heard about the digital media conference planned for 17th July by Net Imperative. It’s at the Imperial War Museum which I’ve not been to as a conference venue so I’m quite intrigued. The list of speakers looks good. Mark Kuhilow from RO Eye is speaking and he certainly knows his business and Latitude are [...]
Massive Photo Of Manchester
Friday, July 4th, 2008We’ve just been over to see Aidan O’Rourke at Urbis today. He’s exhibiting the Manchester Mega-Photo, which is a massive photo collage of Manchester town centre.
I was surprised by the details. It’s made up of around 300 images, and each small fragment of the overall collage is at 10 megabytes (cropped from an original 12 [...]
Igloo 360 Projection Tent
Friday, July 4th, 2008Our friends in Shropshire at Igloo Vision have been busy working away in a shed for a good while creating the most amazing 360 degree projection tent that is ideal for corporate client hospitality events, festivals, marketing and promotion events, sporting events and exhibitions.
They’ve just done Glastonbury and have stuck some footage up on YouTube [...]
Manchester Digital Barbeque
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008just about anyone who is anybody will be at the Manchester Digital Barbeque on 8th July at 6pm. It’s at Dukes 92 iN castlefield. If you’re in any digitally oriented, it’s a good place to be to speak to people who give a damn about our industry and can make change. Plus there will be [...]
Website SEO Principles training in Manchester
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Tonight I’ll be delivering a presentation and workshop to a number of microbusiness/sme/startups in Manchester. It’s on behalf of Blue Orchid. If anyone is interested, you can find the seo presentation online here.
The presentation is at St Peters RC school. I must have a word about their website, because it’s too dreadful to link to. [...]