How to beat Facebook
Facebook engages its visitors better than other websites according to a new study. But the research reveals how you can take on Facebook.
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How to beat online distractions
For a moment, just focus…! Ignore those links on the right hand side of the page. Resist the temptation to sign up for my weekly newsletter. Shut your eyes to the other tabs and windows open on your screen. Instead, for a moment or two – concentrate. There that was …
Online, the message matters most
Today you have a test. Find something that really, truly interests you and start reading it online. Follow the links and continue reading. Simple. Now look at the address of the website you reach at the end. You could well find it is entirely different to the one you started …
Surprise…! This is not a blog post…..!
Here’s what I want you to do – work out what I would have written about today, based on this research summary. Over to you…! Comments invited….! Tomorrow I’ll provide the answer – unless you get there before me….!
How to find out if your website truly engages
Aah..let’s here the sympathy for poor Cheryl Cole…cruelly “sacked” from the American version of The X-Factor – apparently for her Geordie accent. It seems that in the pilot programmes no-one could understand her. But as the talk-radio presenter LaDona Harvey said on TalkSport yesterday, the chances of people from Newcastle …
Web design psychology – you need to know your vistors first
Lady Gaga has made history and helped us understand a bit more about web design psychology; she has become the first celebrity to have more than 10m followers on Twitter. Whoopee! Of course that means that over 96% of the Twitter world ignore her. And as for the rest of …
You need to update your website every day
Prince William saved a judge’s life last week in one of three mountain rescues he was involved in. Of course, you already knew he was back at work after his wedding. And you will have read that he and his new wife, the Duchess of Cambridge, are soon to set …
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 …
Facebook and Twitter are NOT work distractions
All over Britain – indeed all over the world – you can almost hear parents shouting “Will you turn off that Justin Bieber and get on with your homework..!” For decades parents have believed that music is a distraction, that it puts children off their homework. Your parents probably shouted …