BBC Scotland
Just been interviewed on BBC Scotland (via Skype) about the amount of time people are spending on the web and whether or not it is doing us any harm. It isn’t – as far as we know yet…!
Graham Jones
How to avoid the Tiger Woods effect online
We are more likely to support something when it has several positive associations than when it has just one Tiger Woods has announced he will be playing at The Open Championship at St Andrews in a couple of months time. That is a double edged sword for the Royal & …
Top Tips For More Ecommerce Website Sales
By Ian D Spencer Selling online has become a very popular thing to do for companies of all sizes. This popularity has led to many market places becoming very competitive which is turn making it harder to create sales. There are however many things you can do to increase your …
Successful bloggers are helpful people
Babies prefer helpful people to the nastier kind. New research from Yale University’s Infant Cognition Center shows that in almost all cases babies as young as six months old show a distinct preference for things which help others. In the experiments, puppets and objects are shown trying to achieve something, …
ITV News
ITV News (ITN as was) has asked me to be interviewed about the 5th Birthday of YouTube and why we have all gone video crazy…!
Online shops fail to predict customer behaviour
The Political Editor of Sky News, Adam Boulton, is now a YouTube sensation after his live TV spat with Labour Party adviser, Alistair Campbell. “Don’t keep saying what I think,” yelled Mr Bolton, “don’t keep telling me what I think.” There is no love lost between these two anyway; but …
Email marketers taken to task for failing and being wrong
We love email – so why don’t more companies get it right? People like receiving emails. In spite of all the hype about spam and “phishing attacks”, email is still one of the most loved aspects of the Internet. Indeed, recent research by the Direct Marketing Association shows that people …
Another interview on Facebook
Just been interviewed by The Hull Daily Mail for a feature article on Facebook.
WordPress is wrong and graphic designers are right
A standard WordPress page does not help your website visitors remember what is important WordPress is one of the most popular pieces of software around. Indeed, on WordPress.com there are over 11m blogs – and as for the number of websites that are built using WordPress.org, well it’s anyone’s guess. …
Article on Facebook for The Times
Just been interviewed by The Times for an article about Facebook, due out some time next week.
Coalitions are not just for politics
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Prime Minister David Cameron seal their relationship in public as this still from the BBC News website shows The wedding guests were all arranged in the garden and then, as the sun shone and the birds sang, in walked the “happy couple”. Smiling, confident …
Niche blogs do not mean success
The people of Newbury, in Berkshire, must be keen grocery shoppers. In spite of the fact that this small market town has a population of only 30,000 people, Tesco has just opened it’s third store there. There is a massive Tesco Extra a mile or so South, there is a …
5 Reasons to Build a Facebook Page For Your Business
By Tahire Khan Creating a Facebook fan page only takes minutes to do and it is an incredibly cost effective way to build an audience of targeted and interested users, and what’s more you can communicate with them regularly for free. If you’re serious about social media, here are my …
Internet retailers do not benefit from offline advertising
Outdoor advertising may as well be blank, for all the good it does for online firms Advertising executives are failing their customers it seems. New research shows that people want to find out more about the products and services being advertised, but those pesky ad designers are not helping them …