Ever since I was a child I’ve wanted to learn Spanish for some reason. I finally got lessons when I went to university. However upon leaving university and living in a fully English speaking country there was little motivation to continue my practice. Until now… I still live an an English speaking country, albeit on […]
Tweet The System: A New Twitter Advertising Blog
So I’ve decided to to get on top of Twitter Advertising this year. Of course I couldn’t let the opportunity to start another site pass, so I’ve set up a brand new website called Tweet The System where I plan on sharing the best of what I learn about marketing with Twitter. If you’re interested […]
Snow Forecast for Queenstown
After months of nomadic travel I’m setting up camp in Queenstown, New Zealand. One month late to pick up the super cheap season passes, but looking forward to Winter and ready to improve my snow-feet. The Remarkables forecasts, snow reports and live snow cams. Treble Cone forecasts, snow reports and live snow cams. Cardrona forecasts, snow reports and […]
The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson [Book Review]
“The Ascent of Money” by The Ascent of Money, by Niall Ferguson, Penguin Press. Licensed under Fair use via Wikipedia. I was recommended this book through my work last year and was disappointed to find out that it wasn’t available for Kindle. Luckily when I was given a book token as a gift; this title […]
Beyond the Cloud: When Good Tech Goes Bad
So many of our applications are “moving to the cloud” or at the very least relying on information or authentication from the web. But what happens when you don’t have constant internet access or your connection is limited in some way. These are all things I would start to discover when I made the decision […]
Five Digital Marketing Tools You’ll Meet in Heaven & B2B Advice from René Power
Last night René Power joined David Edmundson-Bird and this years Digital Marketing Communication Management Students at Manchester Metropolitan University to talk about the five most important digital marketing tools. The Five Key Digital Marketing Tools Your Website SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) PPC (Pay Per Click Marketing) Content Marketing Email Marketing Your Website Whilst a lot was […]
Get My New Bitcoin WordPress Plugin For Free
You may or may not have heard of a relatively new digital currency called Bitcoin. It is a protocol generated using the cryptographic skills of some of the smartest minds around. Most importantly it is also decentralised and not controlled by any one country or organisation so it is a genuinely free market. You can […]
How to Block 0845 Numbers on a Samsung Galaxy
Having a business listing in Google Places can be great in aiding discovery for customers and SEO purposes but it can also open the door for a lot of unethical and unwanted commercial calling. Even if your business isn’t listed you might find that your phone number has been “acquired” elsewhere and you are getting […]
10 Year WordPress Anniversary
Happy 10th Birthday #WordPress! Or is it an anniversary? If you use WordPress for business or even just keep a personal blog but and you have the chance to attend a WordPress Meetup they really are a great way to start getting involved with the community and I’m sure there will be a lot of cool people […]
Themes from The Next Web Conference 2013 – #TNW2013
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The Converged Web: The Internet’s Next Wave?
Whilst browsing the blog of John Saddington, an entrepreneur I recently backed on Kickstarter and co-creator of the Standard Theme, I came across an interesting question. His post described the history of the Internet in waves and pondered what the fifth wave might be… The history of the internet can be summed up easily into four different stages, or […]
NFC Lifehack: Tracking Your Offline Personal Expenses With An NFC Wallet
Whilst recently working on a mobile marketing research paper I ended up drinking all too much coffee and ordering a box ofNFC tags from RapidNFC in the early hours of one morning. Today, almost a month to the day after first putting them to use in my dissertation I have found a use to actually start integrating them with my […]
The First NFC Enabled Dissertation on Mobile Marketing
So that is the title I hope to have claimed with my latest project! Over the past few weeks and months I’ve been locked away at university researching Mobile Marketing for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Late one night whilst browsing the NFC research I discovered that NFC tags were relatively cheap and in my caffeine induced state I […]
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