Forums – how good they can be for your business

March 2, 2010 – 2:10 pm by sandra
My colleague was speaking with one of our clients earlier today, Organic Cotton Shop, she had just bought Sophie the Giraffe.  So what's Sophie the Giraffe I hear you ask?  In short its a Natural Latex Pacifier and Teether for babies and toddlers. Now I hear you ask, what has this got to do with forums.  Well to make a long story short, someone bought one, mentioned it in Roller Coaster's ...

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Why Upgrade IE6?

January 7, 2010 – 12:45 pm by sandra
I have been amazed recently at the amount of people still using Internet Explorer version 6. Late last year I was delivering training programmes and out of 3 training locations, 2 were still using IE6 on some computers. This is madness, it went out with the ark, well not really but it is several years old and does not work properly. So why upgrade? 1. Web designers and developers ...

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Cloud computing – more that just marketing hype?

December 14, 2009 – 12:41 pm by Adrian
Many of the technologies and techniques used in cloud computing are not new. Virtualization which has been around for some years is an integral part of all cloud solutions. Many have argued that there is nothing more to cloud computing than a re-packaging of existing technologies. There is no doubt that there is a great deal of hype surrounding the term. However there are a few crucial aspects associated with ...

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They are so NOT Google

November 6, 2009 – 8:09 am by sandra
I received a call yesterday from a lady who said she was calling from Google. As I am an agent I did not think this was strange so I took the call and listened to what she had to say. It was along the lines of “how would you like to have a top listing in Google and not have to pay the costs of pay per click”. ...

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Is Twitter Loosing the Social Networking war?

October 30, 2009 – 9:05 am by sandra
“Why bother” “cannot see the point” “takes too much time” just a few quotes I have had from clients recently when I mention using Twitter to help promote their business products and services. So is Twitter loosing the social networking war? The jury is still out on that one but there do appear to be a few jumping ship. On the other hand there are also a lot ...

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Scraping emails from websites

August 26, 2009 – 7:13 pm by sandra
Ever wondered where spammers get your email address so they can send in those wonderful emails about enlarging parts of you body that you dont have or trying to flog pills or watches, well chances are they took it off your own website.  Using a programme, spammers can scrape email addresses off websites, hence you get lots of spam.  A few years ago I landed into work with 1279 emails awaiting ...

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Thanks to all

July 6, 2009 – 9:56 am by Maggie
Thanks to all those who sent get well wishes over the past few weeks - I am returning to the blog temporarily to update, having just been 'released' temporarily from St James' Hospital where my leukaemia treatment seems to be going well. In  my absence the team is doing brilliantly and has been strengthened by Julianne Hand who joins us to cover for Caitriona's maternity leave from August as well as covering ...

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Google business listings – great way to get a top listing quickly

June 27, 2009 – 4:52 pm by sandra
You may have noticed when searching in Google recently, that listings with Google maps are appearing more and more, they are Google's business listings which are a great way to get yourself into Google quickly. I have been listing tourism businesses and within 24hours they are getting a page one listing, normally in the top 5 listings. I hear you ask how do you do this, its actually very simple.  Go ...

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Web 2.0 – the 1,000,000 word

June 22, 2009 – 7:16 am by sandra
I heard this last week and could not believe it, Web 2.0, something I am always talking about has now become an official word in the english language and not just any word but the one millionth. Other words bidding for the position included coddies, chengguan, slumdog, fundoo and Jai Ho, but no, they picked Web 2.0.  The Global Language Monitor (GLM), based in Austin made it official on 10th June  at ...

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bing – Microsoft’s shiny new search engine launches

June 2, 2009 – 12:30 pm by Adrian
Without a great deal of fanfare Microsoft's new search engine came on-line this week. No doubt they spent a long time dreaming up a name that would have the same quirk factor as 'Google'. In the end they came up with 'Bing' - which, although not completely awful, is frankly a little bit awful!   In any case, bing seems to work quite well but I just can't see any reason why a Google user ...

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