Phew! What an intense weekend. We’ve just got back from the BeMyApp Olympic Hackathon Weekend. That’s a long name I hear you say – well it was a long weekend I tell you! The BeMyApp Weekend brought together developers, designers, marketers and ‘idea generators’.
The event kicked off on the Friday evening with all the ideas generators presenting their apps to an audience of designers, marketers and developers. This audience then went on to vote for their favourite ideas. The ideas with the most votes went on to qualify for the weekend and the audience of developers, designers and marketers formed themselves into teams with them.
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Foursquare For Business
Do your customers visit your premises?
Is your premises a social environment?
If the answer to both the questions above is yes, then Foursquare should be considered as a marketing tool for you. It is a location based social networking platform that allow people to ‘check-in’ to various locations and post updates that can be viewed by their friends.
Hotcakes Bakery – Design Through Typography
Hotcakes Bakery, a local Surrey bakery renowned for their vegan speciality cupcakes, was designed using typography to give their site impact. We used a selection of fonts from the Google Fonts directory. Google Fonts is a very exciting development in web design as it allows us to use rich typography, a feature that was avoided in the past as many browsers could only render a small selection of fonts.
AIM Compliance And Web Design Services
Since the widespread popularity of the Internet, there have been protocols in governance and information distribution guidelines particularly in public markets. The AIM rule 26 is the current information dissemination authority for websites of AIM listed companies.
Susumu have experience working with AIM listed companies beyond the scope of simply designing their websites. Our team has been developing and maintaining compliant websites since the introduction of the AIM rule 26 in 2007. Our specialist experience in AIM listed companies together with our knowledge in web development allow us to build your corporate identity and online presence efficiently and to the highest standards.
Television On Social Media
There is an unavoidable growing synergy between television and social media in the UK. On demand and catch up services are searchable on YouTube and are so well integrated, it is difficult for users to define if they are watching a YouTube or a streamed service. Television shows and even commercials are using social media to involve viewers and create a buzz around story lines.
The business advisory firm Deloitte claim that there is a limit to just how effective the merging of social media and television is. Deloitte’s findings affirm that it is young enthusiasts who fuel the success of these campaigns.
Simples
Sometimes solutions to computer issues can be more simple than you think.
I recently received a call from a client about one of their users not being able to open attachments properly when using their webmail portal to access email. Each time the user clicked on an email attachment they were met with unreadable computer language – indecipherable squares and ±!@£$%?|:”}{?(*&^.
Who Do You Follow On Twitter?
I have been on Twitter daily for years now, and by now I have really grown fond of some twitter-ers. Here is my list…..
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Protecting Your WordPress Administration
There has been a receipt spate of attacks on the WordPress platform. The attacks appeared to be a campaign to spread malware through thousands of legitimate sites. The attacks appear to redirect users to malicious sites known as scareware sites which claim to have identified an infection.
If you are using WordPress, here are some hand hints and tips for securing your site.
How Many Visitors Have Been On Your Website?
If you can not answer this question, then you have a website that is not being tracked. This can mean you are missing out on valuable data such as how people are finding your website, where in the world visitors are coming from and how they are using your site. This is crucial information needed for monitoring how well your business is performing online.
The tool we set all our clients up with here at Susumu is Google Analytics. This is an industry standard monitoring tool which is completely free to use. It can be used to monitor multiple sites and in a number of ways. It can be used on sites built in any platform.
Why Do You Need A Website?
Without a website, you risk potential clients not finding you and existing clients wondering if you are still operating. If a website is designed and developed well, it can streamline your work flow and give you valuable insight into how people are responding to your online presence.
