Why no one cares about your Facebook fan page.
Facebook isn’t new or trendy any more, even my 86 year old grandmother has a profile these days. It’s still a fantastic tool for keeping in touch with your distant friends and relatives, but as far as defining youth culture goes, it’s slowly starting to lose it’s edge. I mean, who wants to cut loose on a platform where your mom will step in and chide you for your choice of language, or your inappropriate behaviour on a Saturday night?
...Peruse articleCrappy Digital Marketing – Part 1
If you’d like to find a saying that doesn’t apply to online activities, you’ll be hard pressed to find one better than, “If you build it, they will come.” Surfing the net is an elective process, there are thousands of people offering services and sites that are very similar to your own. So if you decide to aggravate your users, there’s a fairly good chance that they’ll fire up their search engines and find somewhere else to get their kicks.
...Peruse articleAssholes of the internet
Over the last couple of months WeAreSignals has been picked up by a number of design showcases and featured in articles that use the word ‘inspiring’ in the title. That’s pretty awesome! We were chuffed when onepagelove.com selected our work, there were high-fives all round when thebestdesigns.com added our site to theirs, and, we partied like rock stars when webdesignledger.com used our site, twice.
...Peruse articleRocket Science - The Problem with in-house corporate web development
When you’re running a big company it makes an illogical kind of superficial sense to have your website built by your IT department and your digital strategy developed by your marketing team.
After all, IT knows computers and the marketing team should know how to sell.
So, why go through the extended hassle of sourcing a competent digital agency when all of the skills are present in-house?
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» Blood Blackberry!
In November last year I made the mistake of buying a Blackberry. I rocked up for family dinner, lauded my technological prowess over my Luddite siblings and went home to set-up my email, my BBM and a plethora of social media and IM applications.
...Peruse articleUm, ah, Feck, Feck, Feck - First adventures in screencasting
I’m a big believer in using online video tutorials to learn new skills. I’ve learnt tons of cool stuff about Photoshop and Illustrator, for free, by simply watching a geek-pro work the programs and describe the process at the same time. I love those guys and gals, they’re awesome.
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Why no one cares about your Facebook fan page.
Facebook isn’t new or trendy any more, even my 86 year old grandmother has a profile these days. It’s still a fantastic tool for keeping in touch with your distant friends and relatives, but as far as defining youth culture goes, it’s slowly starting to lose it’s edge. I mean, who wants to cut loose on a platform where your mom will step in and chide you for your choice of language, or your inappropriate behaviour on a Saturday night?
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