Audio Comments on Blogs
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690
Wendy Wang | 17/11/2009
Using audio comments on your blog can allow people to record brief comments and post them instead of text. Interesting to see where blogging is going..
tags:
Web 2.0
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Web Development
Social Media ROI
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651
Daniel Wright | 14/10/2009
There’s a lot of buzz and excitement about social media on the web at the moment. Everybody wants their website to integrate with facebook or Twitter and so on. There’s no question that these social networks (and others) can be a powerful part of your company’s online presence, but sometimes convincing the corporate decision makers can be difficult.
tags:
Web 2.0
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Twitter
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Social Media Marketing
Government 2.0 – Engaging with the population?
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646
Daniel Nelson | 2/10/2009
According to the conference website, “Gov 2.0 is developed to answer Web 2.0 implementation questions”.
tags:
Web 2.0
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Online Trends
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facebook
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Twitter
Social Networking Boosts Your Business
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Benjamin Christie | 16/04/2009
The other day, we mentioned how some businesses are struggling to make the great shift towards going social. Social Networking, as you probably know by now, is now very much in, and with Facebook continuing to rise in popularity, hitting 200 million members early this week, and social networking in general getting more popular every day, it's becoming clear that social networking has a lot to offer the business world.
tags:
Technology
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Business
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Online Trends
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Social Networking
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Web 2.0
Why Businesses Should Avoid Free Blogging Services
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498
Patrick Wong | 9/02/2009
Whether a beginning blogger or a seasoned expert there is one thing every blogger will need, a blog platform. When determining where to host a blog many individuals immediately turn to free services such as Blogger or LiveJournal. While the easy setup and lack of price tag may make these services an easy sell initially you may find that you get what you pay for in the long run.
tags:
Corporate Blogging
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Web 2.0
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Business
Responding to Negative Comments
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492
Roslyn Zolandor | 28/01/2009
If your blog has a regular readership then there’s a good chance your posts are generating comments. While this is a great way increase interest and involvement in your site, negative comments can quickly sour the atmosphere and damage your reputation.
tags:
Corporate Blogging
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Web 2.0
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Common Sense
The Benefits of Commenting on Blogs
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Daniel Nelson | 27/01/2009
Do you ever leave comments on the blogs you read? If not, you may want to consider engaging in this practice. Adding blog comments can offer several benefits
tags:
Corporate Blogging
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Web 2.0
Social Networks Trump Traditional News Media
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491
Benjamin Christie | 27/01/2009
By now you are probably familiar with plane that landed in the Hudson River in New York. If you heard about this breaking story through a mainstream news outlet you may be surprised to learn you were not among the first to hear it. Amazingly, this story originally broke on Twitter thanks to a passer-by who uploaded the news along with a photo via his iPhone.
tags:
Online Trends
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Web 2.0
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Social Networking
Four Reasons to Transcribe Video Content
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489
Daniel Nelson | 22/01/2009
Despite the popularity of video content, it does present several challenges over traditional text based content. Fortunately, these can be easily overcome by providing a transcript of the video. Here are four challenges a transcript can help address:
tags:
Website Accessibility
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Web 2.0
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SEO
Twitter Breaks Records in Australia
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485
Patrick Wong | 19/01/2009
By now you have heard of Twitter, a highly popular micro-blogging service. Have you set up your account yet? If not, you may soon find it a necessity to keep in line with your customers, clients and fellow businessmen.
tags:
Online Trends
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Corporate Blogging
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Web 2.0
,
Web Strategy
The Secret to Succeeding in Social Media
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484
Patrick Wong | 15/01/2009
Social media is a hot topic for most businesses looking to expand their online marketing strategy. Sites such as Twitter and Facebook provide direct access to millions of potential customers. Since users have various ways of indicating their interests on social media sites, you can easily identify the individuals most likely to become customers and place your greatest efforts there.
tags:
Online Trends
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Web 2.0
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Business
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Social Networking
,
Online Marketing
Your New Year’s Resolution for 2009
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Blogs
479
| 9/01/2009
The New Year is here. You may have made resolutions in your personal life but have you made any resolutions for your business? Here are a few you may want to consider adding to your list:
tags:
Online Trends
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Business
,
Web 2.0
Online Trends for 2009
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478
| 9/01/2009
As 2008 comes to a close the focus shifts to 2009 and all the possibilities this year holds. While no one knows what the future will hold with 100% accuracy there are several trends that you are likely to see in the near future.
tags:
Online Trends
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Web 2.0
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Business
Are You Linked In?
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471
Patrick Wong | 24/12/2008
There are a host of social networking sites including MySpace, Facebook and Friendster. Each of these is designed to bring individuals together. In the right scenario, these sites can be used to find business relationships.
tags:
Web 2.0
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Online Marketing
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Social Networking
Should You Consider Using Microsoft Silverlight
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Blogs
470
Gillian Lindsay | 23/12/2008
In October, Microsoft released version 2.0 of Silverlight. This may leave you with a few questions. What is Silverlight, and do I need to invest in this technology?
tags:
Technology
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Online Trends
,
Web Development
,
Web 2.0
Five Reasons to Add a Forum to Your Site
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Blogs
459
| 4/12/2008
Forums can contain a smorgasboard of information that is otherwise difficult to find elsewhere. User opinions and experiences with different products and services can help business reprutations and hence increase sales.
tags:
Online Trends
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Web Strategy
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Web 2.0
,
Online Marketing
How To Create Blog Posts That Attract Readers
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Benjamin Christie | 3/12/2008
By now we all understand the basic benefits blogging can bring to your site. The search engine optimisation gains alone should be enough to convince you to invest in this area. Once you’ve picked your platform and devised a clever name for your blog you’ll find your hardest task still awaits. What can you write about that users will actually want to read?
tags:
Corporate Blogging
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Web 2.0
,
Web Marketing
,
SEO
Using User Generated Content
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Blogs
452
| 27/11/2008
When you need to increase your search engine optimisation, few strategies can ensure a wealth of frequently updated content like user generated content can.
tags:
Issues
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Web 2.0
,
Search
,
Online Marketing
Why You Should Develop an Online Widget
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Blogs
453
| 27/11/2008
You have probably heard the term Widget used more and more these days, but are you still left wondering what a widget is or why you should jump on the widget bandwagon?
tags:
Technology
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Web Design
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Web Development
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Business
,
Media
,
Viral Marketing
,
Web 2.0
What is a tag?
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Blogs
454
| 27/11/2008
You’ve probably heard of tags being used on websites and blogs. In case you’ve never noticed them, you’ll find a list of tags at the bottom of each of our blog posts. You may wonder what purpose these tags serve.
tags:
Web Design
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Web 2.0
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Search
,
Web Marketing
Driving Sales via User Reviews
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446
Patrick Wong | 6/11/2008
There’s no question that customers like to shop online. Recent studies indicate that a majority of consumers also prefer to research products and services online through user reviews and comments. Would you prefer that consumers research products on your site where they can readily make a purchase or elsewhere where you risk losing the business?
tags:
Online Marketing
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Online Trends
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Web 2.0
,
Business
,
Web Strategy
Using Facebook for Recruitment
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445
Gillian Lindsay | 5/11/2008
As your business grows so will your need for new employees. Without a doubt you will search for the most extraordinary candidates possible; just like every other company. If you need to locate and entice quality employees, especially the highly-sought, recent university graduate, you may want to consider a presence on Facebook.
tags:
Online Trends
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Web 2.0
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Business
,
facebook
What Can You Learn from BarackObama.com
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Blogs
437
Robert Beerworth | 21/10/2008
The upcoming presidential election in the United States is the first since Web 2.0 technologies have become widely used. Although both candidates have embraced these features, Barack Obama’s online success has been unprecedented.
tags:
Web Design
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Web 2.0
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Online Trends
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Online Marketing
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Social Bookmarking
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Web Strategy
Adding Twitter To Your Website
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Blogs
433
Benjamin Christie | 13/10/2008
In the past, we’ve looked at how you can maximize the potential of Twitter for your business by following what your customers have to say about you. The next step is to maximize how you communicate with your users utilizing Twitter.
tags:
Web 2.0
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Online Trends
,
Technology
,
Web Design
Recycling with City of Sydney Council
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Blogs
415
| 6/08/2008
As part of Wiliam’s ongoing work for the City of Sydney Council, we recently worked on the Zero Waste website. Zero Waste is an exciting initiative that aims to give people ideas on how to consume less and really think about how waste can be a valuable resource.
tags:
Web 2.0
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Web Design
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Flash Animation
Affiliate Marketing - Should you be considering it?
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Blogs
414
| 1/08/2008
Wiliam is always looking for strategies to drive more relevant traffic to your site. Have you considered using affiliate or referral programs to drive conversions?
tags:
Web 2.0
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Web Strategy
,
Online Marketing
,
SEM
,
Search
Online Competitors - Who are they?
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Blogs
413
| 28/07/2008
Whenever we kick off a website project with a new client, we ask them to identify their online competition. The response we get is almost always a list of local or Australian companies. But given the international audience provided by the Internet, the reality is that the contenders for that customer pool may be located in New Zealand, China or even London.
tags:
Web 2.0
,
Online Marketing
,
Web Strategy
,
SEO
Increasing Email Subscribers
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Blogs
412
| 23/07/2008
Email subscriber lists are powerful marketing tools. They allow you to get your message to precisely to your target audience. But with customers becoming more and more leery of spam, the challenge has become how to get people to sign up.
tags:
Web 2.0
,
Online Marketing
,
Email Marketing
Strategy for Writing Blog Content
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Blogs
411
| 18/07/2008
Sometimes it’s not what you write about – it’s how that presents a big challenge. Finding the right tone, approach, and style to attract the right audience is part science, part art.
tags:
Web 2.0
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Corporate Blogging
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Online Marketing
Publishing Your Website Offline
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Blogs
410
| 17/07/2008
It’s amazing how often you’ll be given a business card and find that the company’s website address isn’t included. An online presence is an integral part of a brand;in fact, for a growing segment of the population, the website is theprimary source of information about a company so it is critical that it’s highlighted on all company communications.
tags:
Web 2.0
,
Online Marketing
,
Business
Get your staff blogging!
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Blogs
409
| 16/07/2008
Google’s blog is written by staff throughout the company. Could your company do the same? Could your product manager or brand manager be the best source for articulating the products they work with?
tags:
Web 2.0
,
Web Strategy
,
Online Marketing
Running Urchin VS Google Analytics
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Blogs
408
| 15/07/2008
We were asked by a client recently to evaluate Urchin vs Google Analytics and provide analysis of each application. Both are web statistics programs owned and presented by Google, and discerning which is the right fit for your company can take some digging.
tags:
Web 2.0
,
Online Trends
Do you have a Purple Cow website?
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Blogs
407
| 14/07/2008
This is the story that Seth Godin tells in his book, Purple Cow; you’re driving along and the countryside is lovely. Look! There’s some cows, bucolic and charming. And over there, some more cows. Eventually, you just don’t see the cows anymore. They fade into the landscape – which has gone from pretty to pretty boring.
But imagine driving past a purple cow. Now that would recapture your interest in a big way, wouldn’t it?
tags:
Web 2.0
,
Web Strategy
,
Web Design
,
Online Marketing
Using competitions to drive traffic
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Blogs
405
| 11/07/2008
Running a competition is a quick way to drive traffic to your site. Prizes can be as varied as one of your company’s goods and services to something incredibly lavish. Assuming the marketing is well done, the larger the giveaway – the more traffic you’ll drive to your website.
tags:
Web 2.0
,
Online Marketing
,
Web Strategy
Coupons for Ecommerce Sites
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Blogs
406
| 10/07/2008
How often have you gotten to the end of an ecommerce transaction, seen the box for entering a coupon code, and realized you don’t have one? If you’ve cancelled the sale, or worse - been the vendor who has had the sale cancelled, then you know how important coupon codes are becoming as incentives to close the sale.
tags:
Web 2.0
,
Online Marketing
Tactics: Improving your Bounce Rate
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Blogs
402
| 9/07/2008
Once a customer launches a website, the first question is usually; “How do I know it’s successful?”
tags:
Web Design
,
SEO
,
Web 2.0
Website-to-CRM lead automation
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Blogs
403
| 8/07/2008
One of the requests we are receiving more and more is to engineer the ability for our clients to have their web generated leads directly added to their Microsoft Dynamics CRM(Customer Relationship Management) software, Salesforce or other CRM
tags:
Web 2.0
,
Web Design
,
Sales
,
CRM
Twitter – Maximizing its Potential for Business
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Blogs
399
| 2/07/2008
Twitter.com, as we’ve said, is the tactic of zeitgeist. It’s the technological equivalent of haiku: tiny fragments that stimulate immediate interest in a greater picture.
tags:
Web 2.0
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Business
,
Online Trends
Decluttering Your Website – When Having it All is Too Much.
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Blogs
400
| 2/07/2008
One of the biggest problems customers can face with designing their website is the desire to have it all. From LinkedIn and Facebook profiles to Twitter updates and photo streams, employee blogs and charity microsites. The result is sometimes a cluttered jumble that doesn’t resonate with the online audience – in fact, it can drive them – and their business - away.
tags:
Web 2.0
,
Web Design
,
Technology
,
Usability
Applications for the 3GiPhone
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Blogs
398
| 1/07/2008
With the recent launch of Apple’s 3rd Generation (3G) iPhone, many of our customers have been interested in discussing in-house applications for it. With download speeds that near those of WiFi and several design enhancements, using the new iPhone as a way to engage customers with free content is a very attractive marketing option – and companies want to be quick to take advantage.
tags:
Web 2.0
,
Web Design
,
Technology
,
Media
Embedding PowerPoint into your Website?
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Blogs
396
| 30/06/2008
PowerPoint is the leading business software for presentations. It has become ubiquitous in most corporate meetings. But why keep such an extraordinary wealth of information locked inside the conference?
tags:
Technology
,
Business
,
Media
,
Web 2.0
,
Online Trends
Linkedin for Business
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Blogs
397
| 30/06/2008
While the attention is on Facebook, another social networking site has been growing faster and gathering a powerful community of users. LinkedIn has distinguished itself as the Internet gathering place for professionals.
tags:
Web 2.0
,
Web Design
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Media
,
Business
,
Online Trends
Blog Ideas to Drive Traffic
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Blogs
391
| 12/06/2008
There is a marketing adage that says that people don’t want to be ‘sold to’ – they want to be ‘communicated with’. A blog is the perfect platform to have this conversation with both existing and potential customers.
tags:
Corporate Blogging
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Online Trends
,
Web 2.0
Building your website’s traffic strategy
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Blogs
393
| 12/06/2008
The most successful clients are those that start planning their traffic strategy about 75% through the web development. The strategy can have many moving parts, depending on the goals of the site. Here are some ideas that can help.
tags:
Online Trends
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Sydney Web Design
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Web 2.0
,
Common Sense
Use Mapping to help customers find you
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Blogs
384
| 14/05/2008
Want to show customers on your website exactly where you’re located? You can, with a customized map from Yahoo™ or Google™!
tags:
Web 2.0
,
Online Trends
,
Search
Video content brings traffic
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Blogs
372
Robert Beerworth | 23/04/2008
Video content provides that fresh, interactive experience visitors are looking for. Additionally, video adds a lot more punch to promotions and marketing campaigns.
tags:
Web 2.0
,
Online Trends
,
Media
Flash application development for Facebook
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Blogs
379
Gabriel Muller | 23/04/2008
Many of the recent Facebook applications we’ve designed are Flash applications that were made to operate in the Facebook environment. These can greatly increase traffic if developed for your website.
tags:
Online Trends
,
facebook applications
,
Web 2.0
Has Social Networking blurred the line between Blog and CMS systems?
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Blogs
366
| 9/04/2008
We are starting to see a convergance between Content Management Systems such as Sitedock and Blog systems such as Wordpress driven by a need to leverage social networking to achieve a greater market share.
tags:
Technology
,
Web Development
,
Web 2.0
Namesqueeze Pages, Could they work for your company’s site?
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Blogs
361
| 26/03/2008
When thinking about the design of your company’s site, one of the components you may consider is a Namesqueeze page. It’s a device meant to capture opt-in emails for future marketing campaigns.
tags:
Web 2.0
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Online Trends
,
Corporate Blogging
Why A Facebook Application is Good Marketing
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Blogs
349
| 13/03/2008
While marketing firms hunt for new methodologies to target specific demographics, the members of Facebook almost obsessively self-define. This results in an abundant, well-articulated and international pool of potential customers.The question is how to reach them. The answer is by building a Facebook application.
tags:
Web 2.0
,
facebook applications
,
facebook
Daft Punk
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Blogs
335
| 18/01/2008
Vince from our web development team noticed that our Facebook Application was being used by Daft Punk.
tags:
facebook applications
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facebook
,
Web 2.0
Web Strategy 2008
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Blogs
333
Benjamin Christie | 9/01/2008
For most businesses, January is often a quiet time when you get some solid work and planning done for the year. You’re probably thinking about what promotions or events you’ll run or even pondering how you’ll achieve your KPIs. Do you actually plan your strategy on online for the year? Do you create an annual web strategy and review every month? If not, here are 12 ideas (one per month) to ensure your website stays top of mind throughout the year and not be forgotten.
tags:
SEO
,
Technology
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Business
,
Corporate Blogging
,
Web 2.0
,
Melbourne Web Design
Building the best websites
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Blogs
329
Robert Beerworth | 29/11/2007
Dismiss any beliefs of what makes the best website. While there are no rules, in order to build the very best websites, your website should enhance users brand loyalty – your organisations online presence should compliment your offline endeavours.
tags:
Web 2.0
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Business
,
Corporate Blogging
,
Viral Marketing
,
Viral Marketing
,
Melbourne Web Design
,
Melbourne
,
Web Design
Get the Goss – With Fox8’s Gossip Girl Facebook Application
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Blogs
324
| 19/11/2007
Ever since Facebook flung opened its doors to developers, the social networking portal has added over 7,000 applications. Introducing the latest kid on the Facebook Application Platform – The Gossip Girl Facebook Application.
tags:
Web 2.0
,
Viral Marketing
,
Web Development
,
Online Trends
Wiliam: A Smart Company!
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Blogs
321
| 8/11/2007
Wiliam was a-buzz this afternoon when a great article about our web design company and Managing Director- Robert Beerworth, was published on SmartCompany.com.au.
tags:
Media
,
Web 2.0
,
Melbourne Web Design
,
Melbourne
,
Web Design
Can you Google My Space?
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Blogs
320
| 2/11/2007
In a bid to dominate the social networking neighborhood, plans have been announced this week that sees Google and over a dozen other leading social networks team together in a bid to overtake rival Facebook.
OpenSocial, the new joint social media venture with MySpace in addition to a collective of companies led by Google, will introduce standardised tools to allow software developers to write programs for the global social network.
tags:
Web 2.0
,
Business
,
Online Trends
Facebook; Windows of Opportunity for Microsoft
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Blogs
318
| 25/10/2007
Facebook and Microsoft today announced a deal that could potentially revolutionise social networking.
Software goliath Microsoft has signed on to invest $240 million into the social networking portal – currently the ninth most visited website in the US (according to Hitwise).
tags:
Web 2.0
,
Media
Online Lead Generation 2.0
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Blogs
317
| 23/10/2007
Networking is an essential skill for business managers, leaders and especially for entrepreneurs. Online lead generation is no different - encompassing all of the web’s functional applications. A basic online lead generation campaign has the ability to drive a torrent of traffic towards your website and has the potential to generate and dramatically increase your revenue.
tags:
Web 2.0
,
Business
,
SEO Melbourne
,
Search Engine Optimisation Melbourne
,
SEO
Wiliam’s Pink Ribbon Breakfast
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Blogs
316
| 22/10/2007
With breast cancer rates increasing dramatically from 5,000 a year to 12,000, Wiliam staff felt it was vital that we band together for Wiliam’s Pink Ribbon breakfast - to demonstrate our continual support and raise funds for crucial funds into breast cancer research.
tags:
Web 2.0
,
Clients
Benefits of RSS advertising
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Blogs
315
| 12/10/2007
Why RSS advertising? Users are subscribing to RSS Feeds thick and fast - making RSS advertisements easy to track and effective in enabling organisations to measure success. It’s reasonably low-cost and can generate higher click-through rates than most forms of online advertising.
tags:
Viral Marketing
,
Web 2.0
Flog Your Blog on Facebook
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Blogs
314
Robert Beerworth | 11/10/2007
One of the first Web 2.0 styled applications that has the capability to improve our social networking lives has arrived - The Blog RSS Feed Reader.
tags:
Web 2.0
,
Web Development
,
Viral Marketing
Top 5 Most Recommended Facebook Applications
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Blogs
312
| 5/10/2007
More than 50 percent of Facebook users return to the site each day, providing unparalleled distribution potential for applications and the opportunity to build a business that is highly relevant to people’s lives. Undoubtly creating your own business branded Facebook Application is an extremely powerful online marketing commodity.
tags:
Web 2.0
,
Web Development
Election 2.0
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Blogs
310
| 4/10/2007
The massive growth of Web 2.0 has transformed the internet into a 2 way user generated phenomenon - and is now host to new wave of interactive election coverage.
tags:
Web 2.0
,
Web Development
Lead generation - converting sales leads
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Blogs
307
| 3/10/2007
Lead generation continues to be one of the main concerns for B2B (Business 2 Business) websites. According to statistics, users spend just 8 seconds scanning a web site landing page before leaving or deciding to explore further.
tags:
Web 2.0
,
Business
What is Pay Per Click Advertising?
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Blogs
308
| 3/10/2007
Pay Per Click is an online advertising format that that allows you to buy your way to the top of search results pages. This tactical form of advertising permits you choose keywords or phrases you would like your site to be associated with when a search is performed.
tags:
SEO
,
Web 2.0
What is Social Search?
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Blogs
301
| 17/09/2007
Welcome to the next era in social media – social search. Social search is a basically a search engine that generates results corresponding with other users' interests based on social bookmarks, voting, tagging, news, pictures, videos and basically any activity of other likeminded users.
tags:
Web 2.0
,
Business
How to put the B in Buzz Monitoring
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Blogs
302
| 17/09/2007
Statistics state that 45 percent of users online have created content. Web 2.0 has revolutionised the internet, highlighting the importance of user generated content because it essentially allows users to have a substantial input to your organisations branding.
tags:
Web 2.0
Wiliam and educational web development
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Blogs
297
| 14/09/2007
Wiliam recently designed an educational platform to provide interactive learning for Skwirk Interactive Schooling. We combined our skill, knowledge and understanding of the importance of education and used it to build an innovative solution.
tags:
Web 2.0
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Web Development
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Clients
Wiliam Guide 101: Why should we care about SEO?
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Blogs
298
| 14/09/2007
When people hear the term ‘SEO’ they immediately shift in their seats. It sounds awfully technical. Is it just ‘super-highway mumbo-gumbo’ created by tech’s to confuse us mere mortals? Or is there a scientific art to it?
tags:
SEO
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Web 2.0
Crash course in writing successful blogs
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Blogs
296
Tom Gregory | 10/09/2007
Find out the top 5 tips to writing a successful blog.
tags:
Corporate Blogging
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Online Trends
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Web 2.0
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SEO Melbourne
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Search Engine Optimisation Melbourne
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SEO
Combining video content with SEO
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Blogs
294
| 6/09/2007
As a great selling point, organisations can use a creative, cleverly marketed video package to demonstrate and display your product or service. Optimised content entices users to your web site and increase the average time spent browsing your web site.
tags:
Technology
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SEO
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Podcasts
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Online Trends
,
Web 2.0
What does web 2.0 mean to my business ?
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Blogs
292
| 5/09/2007
Trends are fantastic and the internet has taken hold of the iconic web 2.0 phenomenon like the drop-shadow of an e-Fish to Water; luckily for web design firms across the world, a new era of web 2.0 design and web 2.0 development has ensued.
tags:
Web 2.0
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Business
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Web Design
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Technology
,
Online Trends
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Melbourne Web Design
,
Melbourne
The benefits of blogging and its acceptance as a form of mainstream media
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Blogs
291
| 3/09/2007
There has been growing acceptance and awareness of the terms blogs and blogging. An article on Tech.Blorge.com revealed that 80% of Americans are aware of blogs and visit blogs on a regular basis.
tags:
Technology
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Business
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Corporate Blogging
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Web 2.0
Social Networking, how advertising is bringing in the profits
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Blogs
286
| 29/08/2007
A report from eMarketer outlined the predicted increase in advertising revenue generated by social networking websites such as MySpace and Facebook. MySpace recorded an annual profit of $440 million for the year ending on June 30th.
tags:
Online Trends
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Web 2.0
,
Technology
,
Viral Marketing
Facebook Social Media Optimisation
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Blogs
284
| 27/08/2007
Developing Facebook applications is amongst one of the many Social Media Optimisation services Wiliam can implement to extend your business brand.
tags:
SEO
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Business
,
Online Trends
,
Web 2.0
Social Networking, Web 2.0 is it Dangerous for School Children
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Blogs
277
| 10/08/2007
A recent article on techdirt Shocker: School Boards Notice That The Internet Isn’t Dangerous outline that much of the political hype and the passing of the new Deleting Online Predators Action (DOPA) is an exaggeration of the threat the internet poses on school children.
tags:
Web 2.0
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Online Trends
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Common Sense
,
Media
Web Design, Social Networking the Great Divide
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Blogs
272
| 2/07/2007
An article on BBC News, Social sites reveal class divide illustrated that just like the real world, social networking websites are showing signs of social divide, class and societal values.
tags:
Technology
,
Viral Marketing
,
Online Trends
,
Web 2.0
Apple’s Safari 3 Browser for PC - First Impressions
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Blogs
271
| 22/06/2007
With the hot news of Apple releasing Safari For the PC, we take a look at how this new browser performs against the market leaders.
tags:
Technology
,
Online Trends
,
Programming
,
Web 2.0
Australian Political Blogging and the Benefits
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Blogs
266
| 6/06/2007
In the past 6 months Wiliam web design (Sydney) has noticed a trend amongst Australian politicians. Many have come to realise the benefits of blogging and Web 2.0 technologies. Why is that?
tags:
Web 2.0
,
Corporate Blogging
,
Online Trends
,
SEO Melbourne
,
Search Engine Optimisation Melbourne
,
SEO
literature and Web2.0
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Blogs
264
Dominic Main | 5/06/2007
Oprah’s book club continues to strengthen its reputation by offering free membership and the opportunity for users “with access to benefits such as online discussion groups, reading questions and Q&A sessions with the author.1” (To join, log onto www.oprah.com/bookclub.)
tags:
Web 2.0
,
Online Trends
,
Media
Web for charity
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Blogs
265
Dominic Main | 5/06/2007
Charities such as the National Breast Cancer Foundation in Australia report excellent responses to and beneficial results from their Web site.
tags:
Web 2.0
,
Web Design
Why is Web 2.0 important for corporate websites
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Blogs
262
| 22/05/2007
A recent article in the SMH titled It’s web take 2.0 confirms what we have been telling our clients for a very long time. When considering your next web design project or the upgrade of your current website, it is important to keep in mind the differences and advantages of a Web 2.0 website.
tags:
Business
,
Corporate Blogging
,
Online Trends
,
Web 2.0
,
Melbourne Web Design
,
Melbourne
web 2.0 websites outsell salespeople
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Blogs
256
| 9/05/2007
Web 2.0 online marketing and corporate blogging are no longer hit and miss methods; they form a systematic, scientific and sustainable method of growing your business whilst at the same time educating your target market.
tags:
SEO
,
Web 2.0
,
Email Marketing
,
Online Trends
,
Business
10 tips to developing a successful intranet solution
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Blogs
254
| 8/05/2007
The best strategies for developing an intranet solution become less and less clear the bigger the organisation becomes. The evitable intranet project that is correctly undergone by most large organisiations in an attempt to improve efficiency, is patched together in a scattered manner with different divisions creating their own areas and little coordination or experience.
tags:
Web Development
,
Web 2.0
,
Web Design
,
Technology
,
Melbourne Web Design
,
Melbourne
Design and Development of a Web 2.0 classic
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Blogs
251
| 7/05/2007
Wiliam has just lauched it's new website, built using cutting edge Web 2.0 technology, combined with truly breathtaking designs.
tags:
Technology
,
Web Design
,
Web Development
,
Clients
,
CSS
,
Programming
,
Web 2.0
,
SEO Melbourne
,
Search Engine Optimisation Melbourne
,
SEO
Website design for a growing Chinese Audience
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Blogs
252
| 7/05/2007
Similarly to many Asian countries, the Chinese audience loves highly interactive websites and web 2.0 functionality allowing them to be more involved in the website. Examples of such features and functionality include blogs, forums and the ability to rate products and send information to their friends.
tags:
Web Design
,
Web Development
,
Web 2.0
,
Online Trends
,
Viral Marketing
We’re here for the long haul – the changing face of Web Services
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Blogs
217
| 20/03/2007
Complacency is a killer when it comes to retaining your competitive position online. The past 18 months has seen a significant increase in the adoption of technologies and techniques that only last year, were perceived by some as “never going to catch on”.
tags:
Web Design
,
Technology
,
Online Trends
,
Corporate Blogging
,
Email Marketing
,
Web 2.0
,
Melbourne Web Design
,
Melbourne