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My grandfather once criticised me for saying it was a REALLY hot day… “You’re really good at pointing out the blindingly obvious.” Zap. OK, so maybe on that occasion my comment wasn’t necessary, but I’m going to take a punt and risk the “blindingly obvious” again… The first priority of your web strategy has to [...]

Have you ever felt daunted by the number of communication options available to you on the web? I know I have. There’s my website, Facebook page, YouTube channel, iPhone app, email, Flickr, Twitter, articles, blog posts… The list seems endless sometimes! Now, though I feel like I am starting to get a better understanding. Back [...]

Charlie Carter is Bluewire Media’s sales coordinator. As part of his role, he’s in charge of using social media outlets (that’s our Facebook & Twitter accounts, for starters) to expand our sales & marketing outreach. SO, CHARLIE… You have a history in commercial & industrial real estate. What’s a nice guy like you doing in [...]

Principals of effective e-commerce search — Smashing Magazine Writing user-friendly content — The UX Booth 25 awesome gift ideas for designers and developers — Six Revisions A blob walks out of a clock tower in Brisbane — Brand New Dieter Rams: ten principles for good design — Vitsoe Usability testing toolkit: resources, articles and techniques [...]

With the “IKEA Facebook showroom” campaign receiving some good viral exposure & deserved accolades, I wanted to draw attention to a local example of effective viral marketing using facebook & send to a friend. Using a simple app on their website & harnessing free social website, facebook.com, Aussie music festival “Good Vibrations” has launched a [...]

Hands up if you’re on Facebook…? According to Facebook’s latest stats, over 300 million of you are. 50% of you are logging in daily and the fastest growing demographic is 35 year olds and older! To put that in context, if Facebook were a country it would be 4th largest in the world (and nearly [...]

Here’s a video I’ve seen played a few times lately which to be honest gives me goosebumps. Just to get you started, here are some mind blowing facts from first 30 seconds: By 2010, Gen Ys will outnumber Baby Boomers 96% will be on a social network Social media has taken over porn as the [...]

Human Centered Design Toolkit — IDEO Millions set to disconnect their fixed-line phones — Sydney Morning Herald The new Steve Jobs unveils new iPod Nano — Sydney Morning Herald Helvetical turns Google Calendar into a thing of beauty — Life Hacker Showcase of fresh and well designed online shops — Smashing Magazine 5 tools to [...]

Seth Godin is considered “America’s Best Marketer” by American Way Magazine & and the “Ultimate Entrepreneur for the Information Age” by Business Week. In this video from Seth’s blog, he answers the following questions from Michael Silverman (CEO of Duo Consulting) “Social Networking for business – is it valuable for business – yes or no?” “And [...]

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 [...]