Archive for 2009

6 common sense tips on how to go viral

June 25, 20097 Comments

If you’ve been creating content online for any length of time, you’ll know that its important every once in a while to churn out a really great post that is both comprehensive, useful and will attract links from around the web by going viral. Why would you want this? Well firstly you gain an influx [...]

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5 off-the-wall awesome tease and reveal campaigns

June 21, 20091 Comment

Tease and reveal campaigns provoke curiosity and inquisition in consumers, this collection of 5 off the wall campaigns showcase some awesome examples.

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Social media rules of engagement. Marketing Age.

June 18, 20094 Comments

I’ve had the priviledge this month of being interviewed by Marketing Age magazine alongside Lauren Fisher and Conor Lynch, on the “Rules of engagement” for social media. This interview was conducted by Marie Boran so a big thanks to her for featuring us. You can read the full interview extract below, some of which was [...]

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Social proof and why it matters to every website lothario.

June 14, 20092 Comments

“Social proof is the is a psychological phenomenon that occurs in ambiguous social situations when people are unable to determine the appropriate mode of behavior. Making the assumption that surrounding people possess more knowledge about the situation, they will deem the behavior of others as appropriate or better informed. ” – Wikipedia article. In the [...]

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Analysing world trends with Google insight search

June 12, 20093 Comments

Google insight for search provides insightful data on a variety of things. The following post summarises some of the things that I’ve gleamed from it from playing around with it recently.

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How Gandhi would write a blog comment.

June 10, 200911 Comments

Blog comments are without doubt one of the most useful ways to promote yourself online, but have a tendency on the whole around the web to be a relatively small part of people’s attention. Comments to many are  micro updates that don’t have much value. With the introduction of third party interactions in the social [...]

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7 free blog client alternatives reviewed

June 9, 20094 Comments

There are often times when you inspiration hits you like a bolt out of the blue, and you are either away from the t’internet – or need quicker access to your blog. This collection should get you blogging even when disconnected.

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8 of the best web design resource pages

June 8, 20090 Comments

Finding great web design resources is tough work. A good number of resource pages have cropped up on the web, and are must bookmark sites for the creative professional. Here are eight of my fav’s definitely worth checking out for future reference.

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JQuery mouse recording with ASP.net

June 4, 20091 Comment

Right at the core of many web applications lies the age old problem of usability testing. How can you accurately watch what users are doing, and when they are doing it? Some solutions exist already, but alas they are charging for the priviledge. Sooo.. I decided to cook up something myself, and share it with [...]

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It’s hip to be Google squared.

June 3, 20090 Comments

Google squared just launched its initial preview to the public today following the announcement earlier in the month at their Searchology event. My initial impressions are on the whole positive, I’ve tried a few web related queries on the service to see what it could do. Squared apart from the geeky mathematics reference appears to [...]

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