May 2013 - Bluewire Media

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Toby Jenkins

What is a Woo?

Daniel Noble is the former CEO and a Co-founder of WooBoard. His specialisation is in the development of early stage business or mature business in saturated markets within Australia, Asia or the USA. His primary expertise has been the development and application of innovative technology to create new competitive advantage, product innovation or market disruption.

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TRANSCRIPT:

Toby Jenkins: Hi. My name’s Toby Jenkins, I’m CEO of Bluewire Media. I’m here with Daniel Noble from WooBoard. Thanks very much for joining in today Daniel.

Daniel Noble: Pleasure.…

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Richard Eaves

Are SMEs losing their edge with SEO? 5 dangerous techniques being used.

This is a guest post.

Richard Eaves is a digital-marketing specialist at Smart Traffic, an SEO company in the U.K. that offers reseller services to many clients worldwide. He oversees SEO strategies for Smart Traffic’s 300-plus campaigns. Twitter @SmartTraffic.

Enter Richard

If you’re not familiar with the concept of Search Engine Optimisation, then consider this your initiation to the modern digital world. Welcome! Although, I must ask, where have you been?

Dawdling aside, let’s take this one step at a time.

You know full well that, for the past few years, search engines have dominated the internet industry.…

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Toby Jenkins

5 secs to Multiplier Leadership – Interview with Liz Wiseman

Reading leadership books is one thing.

Implementing them? Putting the philosophies into practice? Figuring out which piece you should do first? Now that is something that can be really daunting in amongst a day filled with high priority, time sensitive issues you need to deal with.

So what to do?

In this post, I interview Liz Wiseman – Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, a speaker and executive advisor. Liz shares some great leadership insights covering business, education, parenting and sport.

It’s a long ranging interview [approx 28 mins] triggered by her new book focussing on the education sector: The Multiplier Effect: Tapping the Genius Inside Our Schools.…

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Toby Jenkins

Want to win $25,000? 2013 Gamification World Championships, San Francisco

I’ve heard a bit about “Gamification” as a business philosophy over the years – the idea that by applying the principles of game design techniques to non-game experiences, you can help to drive user behaviour. So I thought there might be a few people in our readership interested (and significantly better qualified) to hear that the inaugural Gamification World Championships are on in San Francisco.

Here’s a bit more detail:

Overview
The 2013 Gamification World Championships is a fun, innovative and professional competition that celebrates the highest
standards of Gamification excellence among students and professionals worldwide.…

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Lesley Hays

Is your web developer running these 2 easy tests?

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From the weekly Success Insights series: Lessons from our Client Success Programs

Last week, I said that browser testing didn’t finish with your website launch and promised a follow-up explaining how to manage ongoing testing. So here it is!

1. Check new releases monthly

Quickly run your website through the latest version of the major browsers. The following is the order of importance to check based on likelihood of bugs and popularity, and you might even ignore Safari or Opera based on the list of browsers you made last week.…

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Charles Trentham

Internet security and the future of the password

This is a guest post.

Charles Trentham is diehard tech blogger who loves to write about software, technology, and future science. After retiring from a small telecom startup after the bubble burst, he’s been blogging fulltime, including some freeland work on topics like internet security in order to feed his tech habits. He enjoys spending time with his family and Kelpie, named Elaine.

Welcome Charles.

At any given time and across any given news site it’s clear to see that the internet landscape is changing; sometimes for better and sometimes for the worst.…

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Adam Franklin

How to do Content Marketing like the Godfather Joe Pulizzi

Joe Pulizzi is the godfather of content marketing – founder of the Content Marketing Institute, Content Marketing World, Chief Content Officer, and the author of Get Content Get Customers, speaker and blogger.

I just missed out on seeing Joe Pulizzi in Australia when he was out in March, but I got the chance catch up via Skype and interview him. Here we get to talk ‘shop’ and discover how to content marketing like a ‘godfather’!

Transcript

Adam Franklin: Hi, it’s Adam Franklin and I’m very happy to be here with Joe Pulizzi.…

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Lesley Hays

How to test for 99% of your website visitors by finding your top 8 browsers

From the weekly Success Insights series: Lessons from our Client Success Programs

Hopefully, your website was tested in lots of different browsers while it was being built, but now you probably only look at it in the one you use all the time. You aren’t regularly seeing what all your visitors are seeing and could be missing bugs or opportunities to use new technology!

Popular browsers like Chrome and Firefox are updated all the time in the background and a little double-checking now and then will pick up small issues and give you a chance to implement the latest best practices. The bigger opportunity is for brand new versions, like IE 10, which are likely to have larger problems to fix.…