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Are there too many rules in your design?

  Over the last 6 months I have been having a lot of discussions with my team about the way a creative process should flow across the numerous different outputs we deliver (apps, web sites, graphics, social pages etc). Over the last week I have also seen a number Designers...

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Is a like really an advertisement? How it might affect your campaign.

Liking a page on Facebook is one of those things people do without too much thought. You visit a page or update on Facebook about something or someone you know, you press like, you move on. Facebook likes are sought after as a way of indicating popularity of a product...

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Interesting reading Nov 16

Here are a small collection of articles / posts I thought offered some interesting insight today, figured I should share them here as well as in the stream. You are a company of one A post by Jeremiah Owyang including numerous career tips. Especially the idea of you are in totla control...

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My Main App

For those that don’t have a tablet the key to their value (outside of their coolness) is that when you find apps that work well for you the devices become lifechanging. Since I purchased the ipad(1) several things have changed in my business and house. We no longer buy printed...

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There’s a riot in your neighbourhood!

Let me start by saying I am saddened by the events in London, and having lived in London during earlier riots and violent periods, I feel for those there that are affected. There are obviously deeper things going on in Britain, and have been over many decades, than many of...

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I want a new website. Part 1.

Sometimes I forget that for many the web is a place they do things in, not necessarily a place they understand fully, and that engaging an agency to create a new web site design they often don’t know really where to start. My aim in this short series is to...

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What cost your Social media?

There are so many social tools / hang outs that people can interact in or with. Sites, apps and integrations with other places you visit online, the social digital revolution is well and truly amidst us. As a user of some of the social tools, and like many I would...

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Should you be listening to your friends?

The referral economy.. recommendations, testimonials all being driven by those many virtual acquaintances and friends you have spent your valuable free time building. Everywhere I look I see recommendations being built into everything online. Is that such a good thing? How do we filter these referrals so they actually have...

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How do you cope when your site traffic doesn’t just spike it explodes?

When you have worked in the digital landscape for as long as I have, no doubt you’ve had to deal with some unexpected road bumps along the way. Particularly when you run sites / apps for large national or international brands that have the potential to go “viral”, there can...

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