Author Archives: Angus Russell

It’s been obvious for a while now that mobile internet use is on the rise, in fact some estimates suggest that as early as 2013, more people will use mobile devices to access the internet than desktop computers. It’s equally obvious that if you’re building a website now, you need to think about accommodating mobile [...]

A few times a year, Bluewire Media will submit some of our latest websites to the IMA (Interactive Media Awards). We’ve had much success over the years, with 6 “Best In Class” awards and 5 “Outstanding Achievement” awards. One of our latest entries, however, has scored our best mark yet – The Maura Fay Group’s [...]

Facebook’s ‘Like Box’ We’ve all seen a Facebook ‘Like Box’ before, even though some of us may not have know what it was called. The Facebook Like Box has a couple of advantages over a simple link to your Facebook page: The user can like your page without having to leave your website, and It [...]

I’m writing this blog post because I’ve recently been in a few meetings where one of the last things I said was “… and we’ll send through some instructions on how to create a Facebook page”. I could have just written it down in an email then copy + pasted it whenever I needed to, [...]

To all those regular weekly round-up readers, apologies for the lack of a weekly round up recently. This weekly round-up is the best (and most relevant to our readers) of what Mashable and Hubspot published in the last week. I’ve also included a question from Quora, a relatively new Q&A website where questions get answered [...]

Twitter is abuzz today with the news of the Queensland floods (#qldfloods), this post looks at how it is being used by various different types of twitter users to make announcements, share photos, gather information, raise awareness and encourage donations. Right now on twitter if you search for #qldfloods, you only need to wait 5-10 [...]

Earlier this week, Hubspot, one of our favourite blogs, posted an article that contained 13 embedded videos of great marketers speaking about their ideas.  As the title suggests, all of these videos are worth watching. As a sneak peak, here’s an interesting talk by Malcolm Gladwell about how one psycho physicist brought about a change [...]

If you’re from a web agency in Brisbane, you’re probably aware of how competitive the number one Google ranking for “Web Design Brisbane” is. The spot has long been dominated by John Hacking, with other, much larger companies stuggling to stay in the top 5 for longer than a few months. Recently, Bluewire Media has [...]

One of our core values here at Bluewire Media is “continuous improvement”, and after a recent social media workshop we held, we decided that a good way to improve it would be to include a few solid tips for the most effective use of each form of social media that we discussed. So we’ve started [...]

6 Reasons Every Small Business Should Be Blogging… Are You Missing the Boat? – Hubspot I am amazed at the blog-reluctance of many small businesses. I hear things like “I don’t have time to blog”, “blogging doesn’t make sense in my industry”, and sometimes even the dreaded “what the heck is a blog?”The reality is [...]