I have lived and breathed the internet for over 12 years. It’s been the early adopters on the internet that have participated in customer lead content, using forums and blogs to influence the outcomes and opinions online.
I decided I should start reading some of the books that have been recently published to see what advice is being given about social media.
Today I attend an inspiring event hosted by IoD YDF & Business Link Yorkshire at Gandhi Hall, Leeds Met Uni.
Andy Chapman, IoD YDF Committee collaborated with the team at Business Link to put on an informative event. Which aim was to give practical tips for business owners in Leeds about how they can manage their businesses in tough times. Continue reading
Yesterday was BarCampBradford. It was my first BarCamp so I didn’t have any set expectations of how it would be or what I would get out of it. I certainly had a sense of anticipation and excitement when I arrived at WowHub yesterday morning. Continue reading
On my Blogger blog I’ve got Google Analytics set up and I fanatically log in to see how my visitors are doing (not bad if you’re interested. Blogging frequently certainly drives more traffic). Continue reading
Back at the end of September Google announced the split of Google Base. Google Merchant is an account where you can submit your product based feed. This information drives the data in Google Shopping. Google Base remains in place but for non product information such as houses or cars. Continue reading
Gone are the days of the traditional web or creative agency
With the changes in the economy over the past 2 years and the accelerated changes in technology and internet it’s time for change. Traditional creative, development and web agencies face a change in the market. With people being made redundant and others growing increasing disillusioned with their current employers there is a seas of change. In my experience (from my own network of contacts) more people have gone freelance if they have left or been made redundant. Continue reading
Last week I was on holiday in Scotland and on a rainy Thursday I decided to spend the morning on the WIFI catching up emails, blogs and twitter. It was Hull Digital week last week. There was an event on the Thursday 15th October that a lot of people I follow were tweeting about. So I happily kept reading the tweets whilst I slurped my coffee and visited the links that were being sent. Continue reading
I was reviewing inbound links on a website as the webmaster had paid for some inbound links to be generated (alarm bells should have been ringing already). So I look at some of the links and found the next generation of inbound link spam. So after a rant, I then started looking for other next generation spam techniques the wondrous black hat people have come up with…..and what a can of worms that was. Continue reading
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