Internet Psychologist
A new feature on business social networking site LinkedIn, is giving financial advisers startling new opportunities to raise their profile on the Internet. Until recently, an IFA or financial planner could use LinkedIn’s ‘status update’ tool to communicate with their network, clients or professional connections on the LinkedIn website. But …
Founder of social networking website for IFAs, Philip Calvert predicts that video will become a key technology for IFAs to raise their profile online and to provide financial advice and information. With YouTube acknowledged as the world’s second most popular search engine*, the video hosting website will be a quick …
Children who get bullied online should rightly be protected; so too should adults who get “cyberbullied” as it is called. Today, though, a major row has erupted between the police and Facebook over a seemingly innocuous little “button” that helps people cope with online abuse. Jim Gamble, the CEO of …
What’s the biggest breakthrough in human health in the last couple of hundred years do you reckon? is it antibiotics? Or, perhaps, anaesthetics? Or what about scanner technology? In spite of these significant developments in human medicine, they are not as revolutionary in health terms as the installation of sanitation. …
Fed up with the ever growing range of technologies and websites your business needs to know about? Is that information overload getting you down? Or what about the need to get training and development for all manner of new devices and online systems, such as Twitter or Google Wave? The …
Who advises you about SEO or Pay Per Click? Do they ever say that things are tough? Perhaps. Who helps you with your business planning? Does he or she ever tell you about difficulties? If you answer “yes” to questions like this, you need to change your advisers – fast. …
Research launched as part of National Commute Smart Week finds ‘smart commuting’ could dramatically reduce travel to and from work 62% of commuters want to reduce time spent travelling to and from work Being stuck in traffic, travelling in the dark and wasting time are big frustrations 46% say bosses …
The recent announcement that the major search engines Google and Bing will incorporate social media content into their search results will place the onus on brands to make the most of the online marketplace according to Reality Digital, the leading provider of social networking software for brands and businesses. The …
Digital brand experiences do create new customers, according to the just-released FEED: The Razorfish Digital Brand Experience Report (http://feed.razorfish.com). Fully 64% of consumers surveyed made their first purchase from a brand because of a digital experience – either with a website, microsite, mobile coupon or email. Razorfish (http://www.razorfish.com) surveyed 1,000 …
With millions of orders being placed online throughout the festive season, can you really afford to have customers dropping off at your checkout this Christmas? PostCoder Web SOAP from Allies Computing is a web service which allows you to add address lookup from just a Postcode seamlessly into your online …
Berliners are celebrating today the 20th Anniversary of the collapse of “The Wall”. That great dividing line between East and West was beaten down by ordinary people – and probably you have a “flashbulb” memory of where you were and what you were doing when the news broke. But with …
Mentor was such a wise and trusted ancient Greek, that Odysseus put him in charge of his son when he had to go off to the Trojan War. It is from that – via a book written in 1699 – that we now end up with the process of “mentoring” …
Imagine teenagers in their bedrooms right now, hunched over their laptop, tapping away on their keyboard and checking out their favourite tracks on iTunes or MySpace. It’s an image that many “do-gooders” would have us believe is all too common and which is really bad for youngsters. Will using the …
Twitter users love the system and are very passionate about the benefits it brings them. But increasingly, Twitter is looking like it is on its deathbed. High profile celebrities, such as Miley Cyrus (Hannah Montana) have left Twitter and Stephen Fry threatened to leave but returned. Facebook continues to rise, …
Many bloggers and those “Internet gurus” are alike in one respect – they often hold viewpoints which don’t quite match up with the rest of us. Indeed, you might think that much of what is written online is somewhat extreme in its position. Take, for instance, making money online. You …