Author Archives: Lesley Hays

It’s been almost a month since our Social Media for Business event and some of you may be hankering for more tips and ideas. (If you couldn’t attend, check out our resources page). This week, we have plenty of social media articles (mostly from the very handy Mashable.com)! HOW TO: Pick the Right Social Media [...]

This week we’re looking at website conversions and take a trip back to the future. But first… whatever happened to Google Wave? Well, apparently not much and just last week, Google effectively canned it. RIP Google Wave – Mashable Google’s revolutionary product that blends email, instant messaging, file sharing & wikis “didn’t get the uptake [...]

How 12 CEOs & Founders are Leveraging Web Video – OPEN Forum These CEOs aren’t the faceless heads of their companies but get out there and play an integral part in creating their brand. Can you think of any other brand-integral company leaders or are you even one yourself? HOW TO: Enhance Your Online Presence [...]

35 Powerful Ways to Get Noticed – Small Fuel Marketing Short, effective tips on how to promote yourself & your organisation. Easier said than done, but brilliant none the less. I reckon we do 24 of them! Growing Your Business: 5 Tips From the Founder of Blip.tv – Mashable Five smart business tips we try [...]

The Key to Creating Remarkable Things – The 99 Percent The idea of doing our real work first and “reactive” work second (answering emails, getting resources for colleagues etc.) sounds like common-sense, doesn’t it? But is that really how you function day to day? Or do you spend the morning “getting ready” to knuckle down… [...]

Learn How Google Works: in Gory Detail – PPC Blog A snazzy infographic that simplifies the Google-machine! It can seem pretty overwhelming to try to understand how Google works, especially if you’ve recently jumped into search engine optimisation yourself, but this diagram breaks everything down from Googlebot crawls to displaying the Adwords next to your [...]

Critique me, Please – 50 Weeks of UX How well can you handle critique of your work? Joshua Brewer talks about how being open to critique leads to “better communication, greater creativity and more transparency”. So should you practice being critiqued? List of common misconceptions – Wikipedia If I told you that Napoleon wasn’t unusually [...]

Harvey Norman takes to Twitter in online backflip – Dynamic Business 10 Fun Facts You Didn’t Know About Google – Mashable 15 Amazing Apps for File Storage in the Cloud – Web.AppStorm The greatest defunct web sites and dotcom disasters – CNET UK 11 Useful Google Chrome Extensions for Serious SEO Workers – Blog Web [...]

“Guitar Hero” Rocks Out on iPhone – Mashable Inspirational 50 Twitter Backgrounds Showcase – 1st Webdesigner Starbucks Used Social media to Get One Million to Stores in One Day – Mashable Is Facebook Getting Bigger Than Google? – Mashable The Top 8 Free Online Image Editors – Web.AppStorm 5 Gadgets That Will Transform Your Home [...]

5 Tips to Effectively Promote your Articles – Creative Overflow 25 Awesome Google Search Tips and Tricks – AppStorm Even Dolphins Love the iPad – Mashable 10 things you didn’t know about Twitter – Telegraph.co.uk New App Helps You “Game” Foursquare Mayorships – Mashable Microsoft’s own “Upgrade Your Browser” promo! How We Improved Our Conversion [...]