Andrew Marr Reveals Gagging Order

Andrew Marr may get more out of today than he thinks

TV presenter Andrew Marr may well be reading the newspapers today with added interest. In case you missed it – he had an extra-marital affair and then went and got one of the controversial “super injunctions” to prevent people from publishing any information about it. The fact that the information …

Read More

The Ocean Countess Cruise Ship

Social networks will boost empathy with your customers

I feel really sorry for Janet Richardson, the 73-year-old grandmother who was accidentally dropped into the ice-cold sea by paramedics as they tried to take her from her holiday cruise ship, the Ocean Countess, to hospital in Norway. I don’t know her and I’ve never been dropped into the sea …

Read More

Pop-ups could make a come-back

Website pop-ups could make a come-back

Take a look at the room around you right now….go on, have a look, then come back to read the rest of this…..welcome back. What did you see? Did you see everything around you? All the usual things you normally see were there were they? You didn’t think anything looked …

Read More

Donny Osmond to appear on UK Radio

You need to know the age of your website visitors

Donny Osmond is coming to Oldham; honestly, the 1970s teen heart-throb is to launch his career as a broadcaster working as a DJ for “Revolution”, the area’s local radio station. Of course, many of the people who will listen to his Saturday morning show will have no real idea of …

Read More

Sunny weather online makes us feel good

Your online world is just like being there

Sunbathers were out in force in the UK this weekend as the schools finished for the Easter break and the sun shone brightly. The smell of newly mown grass filled the air and the slip-slap noise of sun-cream being applied could be heard up and down the country. Spring has …

Read More

James Naughtiein the Daily Telegraph

Stop being business-like to boost credibility

The BBC presenter James Naughtie and his producer got into a bit of hot water again recently over a simple Tweet. A few weeks ago it was swearing online, now it is staying at a Japanese “love hotel”. Indeed, the Tweet caused such a fuss within the BBC that the …

Read More

Design your website intelligently

Are there hidden meanings in your website?

What are your reactions to these rather strange sayings? “I 5683 Twitter” or alternatively “I 4283 Twitter”. Yes, it is code and – if the research is right – you should have had a positive reaction to the first saying and a negative reaction to the second one. The reason …

Read More

A typical squeeze page. By Wnknecht (http://wealthandsuccessformula.com) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

To squeeze or not to squeeze?

So, at long last some might say, Ed Miliband is to sign on the dotted line and marry his long-term partner Justine Thornton. On the 27th May – interestingly the same day that Anthony Eden won a famous Conservative victory – the Labour Leader will sign his name on his …

Read More

Will the Dalai Lama and Bill Gates encourage you to join Twitter?

A thousand words is worth a picture

Bill Gates and the Dalai Lama have something in common – they both joined Twitter in the same year. But will seeing their picture here encourage you also to join? The chances are, it will not. Indeed, knowing that there are thousands of celebrities who are on Twitter is of …

Read More

We love email and believe it

This is not a rumour – email is dangerous..!

An apology was issued to 38 British soldiers yesterday because they had mistakenly been told they were to lose their jobs – via email. Getting dismissed by email is not new, of course, but it is no joke when it happens. Equally, some partners have been “dumped” by text message. …

Read More

Help each other

Be nice to your website visitors

Hello, how are you today? I hope you are feeling fine and that if you have friends or relatives in Japan  you are able to get some positive news. No doubt your thoughts are with everyone affected by this morning’s earthquake and subsequent tsunami. At times like this it is …

Read More