Archive for July 2009

HR is a hot topic at Bluewire Media at the moment! We’ve chosen it as our theme for the quarter and everyone has committed to their own goals to contribute to improving this area of our business and making sure we’re having fun at the same time! Yesterday, Adam, Angela and I went along to [...]

SEM expert, Craig Somerville, General Manger at Reload Media, discusses what SEM is, why it’s important in marketing and what to expect when you engage an SEM professional. Craig answers the following questions: What is SEM (search engine marketing)? What are the benefits of SEM? How does Google determine where you rank? What can clients do [...]

Bluewire Media interviews search engine optimisation, SEO expert Llew Jury, of Reload Media. In this interview, Llew addresses the following questions: What’s the best thing about SEO? What led you to become an expert in the field of SEO? What are Top 3 things you need to know to be successful in SEO? What’s the best [...]

Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009 — You Tube Google Wave is Coming: 100,000 Invites Go Out on September 30th — Mashable 7 Red Flags that Reveal to Google That You’re an SEO Criminal – Avoid These! — Winning The Web Card.ly let’s you create cool online business cards in a matter of [...]

SEO expert Llew Jury of Reload Media shares some SEO tips in this interview with Bluewire Media. Llew answers the following questions: What is SEO? What are the benefits of SEO? How does Google determine your website’s ranking? What can people do to improve their ranking? SEO Brisbane:  For search engine optimisation that guarantees “Top 10″ [...]

Stefan Sagmeister is a bit of a god in the graphic design world. Born in Austria, and now based in NYC, he carved a name for himself working on album artwork for the likes of David Byrne, Lou Reed and the Rolling Stones. In 2005, Sagmeister’s Talking Heads box set artwork won him a Grammy. [...]

Novel to be published one ‘Tweet’ at a time — News.com.au Inside Twitter HQ — The Guardian Ten Simple Guidelines for Choosing the Perfect CMS — Noupe 12 essential security tips and hacks for WordPress — Six Revisions 25 high quality free fonts for professional designs — Six Revisions Speed up your website with better [...]

How to increase site performance through A/B split testing — UX Booth MTVs brand new look — Creative Review Clever billboard campaign for safe driving — Creativity Online 80 corporate website designs for design inspiration — Instant Shift Introducing the Google OS — Google Blog Time to invest in email — ClickZ Perform better with [...]

Matt Cutts from Google’s Search Quality Team gave this compelling workshop-style presentation on 28 May 2009 at the I/O conference in San Francisco. He politely critiques actual websites that people in the audience have had the opportunity to submit for review. He offers amazing web design tips covering: – how to improve website usability – tips [...]

This was also published on Digital Ministry on 10 July ’09. If you’re interested in designing great websites you should definitely read this article called Great Design Should Be Experienced Not Seen by Jared M. Spool on UIE.com. It resonated with me because many prospective clients and agency partners regularly ask, “can you show me [...]