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 be people. Your [...]

Twitter is something many people in the web industry are familiar with, but when I speak to ‘normal’ people I am still greeted with blank looks.
If you’re a first timer, this presentation explains Twitter in 5 minutes.

This video is from Ignite Brisbane – an exciting speaking series where the speakers get 5 minutes with 20 [...]

Adam spoke on Social Media Marketing for Events at the ACEB conference on Wednesday & after presenting the benefits a delegate asked -
“But what if people at your event tweet criticisms? Wouldn’t that be reason to stay away from Twitter at events?”
As Adam answered, the challenge here is to do your utmost to give people an [...]

I haven’t had a report card since school days, but I came across these ‘Grader’ tools which essentially rate your marketing effectiveness.  I was curious to see how we fared…

Twitter Grader: Helps you determine how influential you are on Twitter.  You simply enter your Twitter handle & it analyses your followers, number of tweets, retweets [...]

Weirdest internet moments of 2009 — Sydney Morning Herald
Creative and unusual layouts and navigation designs — Noupe
10 web browsers you probably haven’t heard of — Six Revisions
An introduction to website split testing — Six Revisions
The complete guide to getting the most out of Twitter — Noupe
24 UX articles to start 2010 — The UX Booth
Funny [...]

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 [...]

Five technologies that will keep shaping the web in 2010 — Six Revisions
Best of CSS design 2009 — Web Designer Wall
Pantone Unveils Color of the Year for 2010 — myPantone
Factors that affect usability — Six Revisions
The weaker side of usability guidelines — The UX Booth
Google browser size helps keep your content above the fold — [...]

Site search trends for e-commerce websites — Vandelay Design
Negative space in logo design — Logo Design Love
Ten commandments of social media — Noupe
Twitter rated 2009 word of the year — Sydney Morning Herald
Complete beginners guide to interaction design — The UX Booth
You can’t innovate like Apple – Pragmatic Marketing
3 Steps for Effectively Using Social Media [...]

Twitter have now finished their staged roll-out of the new ‘Lists’ feature across the social media network.  Let’s take a look at where Lists are capable of playing a role in your businesses social media activities.
Monitor Your Market -
With many brands and companies now openly embracing social media as a new business tool, Twitter has [...]

If designing & developing great email marketing templates wasn’t already enough of a challenge, (one we take pride in here at Bluewire Media), Microsoft has decided to use Word to render HTML in the latest version of Outlook 2010.
This means for the next 5 years your email designs will need tables for layout, have no [...]