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When cybersquatters try the extortion game

Image via Wikipedia An interesting case at work today, where a website owner got targeted by a company/individual who had registered a number of domain names relevant to them and was trying to sell them at £3000 a pop. As you can imagine, the website owner was quite concerned about this...

Do you “get” Social Media Marketing?

Here’s a great video you might find interesting: Don’t discount the first few minutes of the video, Perry talks through the basics of social media, then puts together a flow of how the Marketing side of it works. He compares social networking websites to a Party, your blog as your Home....

Getting started with social media

Allan sent me link to some advice by Dave Briggs recommending how Local Councils can start setting involved in social media. The great thing about it is that you could really apply this to anyone making a start in this environment. Here’s what it says: First, start listening. Stop relying on Google Alerts...

WordPress Themes: What to look for

photo credit: Nikita Kashner Great post down at NetStrife talking about Things to Look for in WordPress Themes. There’s lots of good advice in there which you can really apply to any technology that has stand-alone themes, not just WordPress. So, what does the article recommend? Here’s a quick list: ...

The digital company 2013

I got a really interesting report from The Wiki Artist today which talks about what organisations need to look for when planning ahead for the next 5 years. Here are the main highlights that companies need to watch out for: Customer-driven innovation will become mainstream Online communities will proliferate Maintaining the...

Seven things IT should be doing

served by picapp.com “Enterprises must learn how to be less dependent on the shrinking number of folks who are well versed in the applications running the business like COBOL, PowerBuilder, and Oracle Forms,” … “Most CIOs won’t admit it, but not only do many of them not know how these...

Get your technical support at AskOwen

Image details: Questions served by picapp.com I’ve just noticed that AskOwen has hit a total of 100 posts. I’m pretty pleased with how it’s going, especially as it hit an all-time high of 600 page views this week after Scoble commented on one of the posts on FriendFeed. Here are...

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