Posted by Toby Jenkins on 10.03.2010
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 at high [...]
Posted by Lesley Hays on 23.12.2009
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 a digital [...]
Posted by Sarah Hyne on 28.11.2009
Top 10 Internet moments of the decade — Sydney Morning Herald
The Googlephone: Google gears up for attack on mobile-phone market — The Times
Showcase of beautiful typography in web design — Noupe
User reviews: Increased sales, traffic and transparency — The UX Booth
How to evaluate what CMS to use — Six Revisions
Be sure to check out National [...]
Posted by Sarah McVeigh on 27.10.2009
I’ve just finished reading SEO Secrets by Glenn Murray. As a copywriter, Glenn manages to make even the clunkiest aspects of SEO accessible to the layperson.
What was most striking in reading the book was that much of optimising your blog or website is naturally intuitive. Most SEO is more related to time and effort than [...]
Posted by Sarah Hyne on 17.10.2009
15 common mistakes in e-commerce design and how to avoid them — Smashing Magazine
Usability testing demystefied — A List Apart
Performance comparison of major web browsers — Six Revisions
How to understand your users with personas — Carsonified
Design as a differentiator — Brand Freeze
Google Wave 101 — Life Hacker
Meeting with the Bobs? Gmail will now make sure [...]
Posted by Charlie Carter on 13.10.2009
I recently came across a terrific example of social media usage in business from a Slideshare presentation by Jonathan Crossfield of the Australian web hosting and domain company, NetRegistry.
One case study particularly stood out which involved an interaction @NetRegistry had had with a fellow Twitter user.
How would you rate this example as a first impression [...]
Posted by Sarah Hyne on 3.10.2009
Popular logos with hidden symbolisms — Six Revisions
10 things to remember before launching a website — The Design O’Blog
Why your next website should be designed with wireframes — Build Internet
Internal site search analysis: simple, effective, life altering! — A List Apart
Technology + Design = Apple? — The Huffington Post
What’s golden — Jason Santa Maria
Search results [...]
Posted by Adam Franklin on 29.09.2009
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 [...]
Posted by Adam Franklin on 25.09.2009
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 #1 activity on [...]
Posted by Charlie Carter on 23.09.2009
To RT or not to RT, that is the question.
RT (for those unfamiliar with the abbreviation) stands for retweet and if you’ve ever come across anything interesting, funny or simply worth sharing to your followers you may have ‘retweeted a tweet’ at some point.
A retweet in basic terms is to repeat/cite a message (a tweet) [...]