Internet Psychologist
IFA Life, the social networking website for IFAs and financial planners is celebrating its first year online. Over 2,400 financial advisers have signed up to the website in the first twelve months, which they use as an industry hub to network, share best practice, debate key issues, raise their profile …
With the popularity of social media, many book authors, experts, speakers and companies interested in marketing, branding and book or personal publicity may wonder how the role of traditional media has changed and if exposure on radio and TV or in newspapers and magazines is still relevant. Traditional media packs …
TheBlogFrog, a tech start up offering social add-ons (also called widgets) for blogs, is taking the mom blogger market by storm. The Boulder-based company offers social features for blogs that let blog readers ask each other questions, discuss relevant topics, and see each others’ blog posts and Twitter streams, all …
Graham Jones, Internet Psychologist, has launched his “Newswire” service on his rapidly growing website. The Newswire provides readers with the lates press releases from organisations working in the Internet sector. Web psychologist Graham Jones said: “The idea of The Newswire is to provide a central resource where all press releases …
BT Business and Google today announced an agreement to offer digital marketing services to small businesses. The alliance will involve BT Business becoming a Google AdWords™ Authorised Reseller. Small businesses can now access Google’s base of millions of UK users and receive professional, full-service AdWords account management, from account setup …
Toy retailer, The Entertainer, has chosen “smartFOCUS”, a leader in multi channel marketing software, to improve the company’s email and digital marketing capability. The deployment of the smartMARKETER eChannel software platform from smartFOCUS is part of a concentrated drive by The Entertainer to achieve a more cohesive marketing strategy by …
The website CitySocialising, the UK’s leading socialising and networking service for city professionals, today launched its search to find the UK’s most sociable people. In their hunt for the CitySocialising Super Socialiser 2009, the networking site is asking its members across 19 cities in the UK and Scotland to organise …
Social networkers often find they are in breach of “rules”. Last week, for instance, players in the US Open Tennis championships were warned against using Twitter. They are not alone, the National Football League in the USA has banned the use of Twitter in some circumstances. And social networks themselves …
Seventy years ago today the British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, declared war on Germany at 11.15am in an address to the nation on the radio. It was the first such public declaration of war, but not the last. George Bush declared his “war on terror” on 21st September 2001, live …
BBC TV South Today ran an item on the banning of Facebook by Portsmouth City Council and included comments from me and even quoted from my blog…!
Is multitasking really a good thing? Ask a woman and she’ll tell you that females are brilliant at it, while men are, well, just rubbish at doing more than one thing at a time. Ask someone aged less than 25, male or female, and they’ll tell you they are also …
Your website readers are loyal to their locality. Provide them with something that’s relevent to their part of the world and they will lap it up. New research from communications experts at the University of Missouri shows that when we read something that is truly local, our brain commits more …
Advertising executives appear to be determined to prove that their industry really is worth it. Take a look at the latest whizzer idea from Eyeblaster – “dwell rates“. Apparently, we “dwell” on online advertising considerably more than we click through. According to the research, on average, we are 25 times …
Raise your hands brothers and sisters if you believe. Say “I believe”…again, say “I believe”…one more time brothers and sisters…say “I believe – I believe in the greatness that is SEO”. For many people who are running an online business, search engine optimization (SEO) has taken on almost religious levels …
For the second time in a week, Usain Bolt has stunned us all with another amazing, world record performance. Yet, anyone in the know in the world of athletics could have predicted this five years ago when Bolt was doing so well in the junior competitions in Jamaica. Indeed, all …