With the number of smart phones on the rise there is a need to make your blog more mobile friendly. Nielsen predicts that “Smartphones to Overtake Feature Phones in U.S. by 2011″. WPtouch is a plug in for Wordpress which formats your site with a mobile theme for the Apple iPhone / iPod touch, Google Android, Palm Pre and other touch-based smart phones. This solution is really effective and simple, and this is important if your customers or potential customers are on your site with their mobile devices.
Mark Cahill will be running a workshops on to provide an introduction to Social media for business. This workshop will take place on the following on [...]
GetGlue is a social recommendation network for books, movies, TV shows, music, games and wine. It also allows you to [...]
The Semantic Web is a collection of technologies whose main aim is to add meaning to the Internet. Semantic [...]
For those of you who are obsessed with been Mayor on Foursquare here is an application (whenwillibemayor.com). This application connects to the Foursquare API to your account via OAuth. It will tell you in all the locations you have checked in to so far how many more check in you need to become Mayor of the location. It also tells you the current Mayor of these locations whom you have the potential to “de-throne”. You can also search by location and Venue. The application also gives you a nice little pie chart based on the locations you visit. I can see how this data is fun for a user. However, if whenwillibemayor.com can collect enough data on enough people it can start recommending locations based on your past history especially if you are in a new city, for example if you like going to Starbucks while in Dublin, then if you go on a trip to and check into a location in San Diego it will tell you the where the nearest Starbucks is in this city.
Facebook are starting to use their Facebook page to communicate more effectivley, for example as well as keeping you up to date with the latest news they are starting to deliver useful videos such as the one below. Up to now communicating and expecially from a customer service persepective they have been poor. I often get calls from Clients with small questions from client issues with trying to find anything on the Facebook help pages.
Mark Cahill was recently interviewed as part of an article on Foursqure, this article appeared online and in the print copy of Marketing [...]
I was watching the TV last night (a rare hobby) and I noticed that the advertisements have gone from displaying a micro-site to driving consumers to a Facebook page. For example the the advertisements I watched (I know I watched a TV advertisement from start to finish, how primtive) were the Diet Coke maniac ad and that Vinnie the Panda for Foxes Biscuits.
On June 14th Twitter via their blog announced Twitter places : more context for your tweets. Giving more context, give more relevance, [...]
Social Bits will be running a workshop on how to promote events with social media and online social networks in Galway. This workshop will take [...]
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