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Digital Event Cardiff 2012

Think Digital: News Update

By demand, THINK DIGITAL is back and ready to hit 2012 with a bang. A huge thank you to all who attended our first event on 11th November 2011, your feedback has been gratefully received and our survey says:

THINK DIGITAL 2012 / Friday March 2nd 2012 3pm – 6pm. / Kuku Club, Cardiff, UK

We will be announcing full details on the next event very soon. In the meantime, please feel free to email info@thinkdigital-cardiff.co.uk with any questions, or pop over to @TDCardiff

Here’s some of your feedback…
“Fantastic event. Something very much lacking in Cardiff. Would be great if future events had a little more focus as I’ve found they can get a bit similar if not. Brilliant first event though.” Thank you! We are looking to cover specific topics in the next event, and will be allocating Q&A sessions in order for you to go into more depth as required.

“GOOD EVENT! But needs some tweaks… more space more light and longer speeches.” Absolutely. We definitely need proper lighting and have condensed the number of speakers from 4 to 3 in order to allow more time per topic.

“Excellent first event. Well done. Learned a lot. Got the synapses firing. Met some cool people. Hope to be around for future events.” Thank you, we’re really pleased with the overall feedback and will do everything we can to ensure the next event offers value to each and every attendee.

“It was a really positive, interesting event which is different from anything I’ve ever been to and draws in a different crowd.” Felt really good to have such an incredible turnout from local business, it was inspiring to see such a broad group of people sharing ideas and opinions.

Would come again and bring more colleagues for some more specialist insight from your speakers.” We’re expanding presentations slightly and have also introduced a Q&A session, hopefully enabling us to offer maximum insight on topics.

“First event was great. But from the marketing it isn’t clear if the event is aimed @ Digital media for dummies type audience or aimed @ seasoned digital media people i.e. advanced CPD. I think you need to differentiate clearly.” THINK DIGITAL 2011 was aimed at small to medium sized local business owners (who wanted a bit of digital inspiration) but ended up drawing in a lot of digital enthusiasts and agencies etc. All are welcome, but perhaps it’s a case of ‘must try harder’… will do our best to set out our agenda clearly when marketing the next event. Thank you!

Merry Christmas from all at Big Eye Deers! xx ***Christmas movie***

Groupon Advice To Merchants

A digital enterprise which enjoyed Wall Street petting, suddenly brandished as the skintest multi-billion generating company in existence, Groupon is almost celebrity with its turbulent media coverage featuring merchants going bust, Watchdog reports hitting The Mail, Business Insider running articles such as The truth about the world’s most controversial company, heaps of scepticism and damning reports about its ever-decreasing stock shares and countless forums pumped with complaints about misinformation and crafty small print. Horror and pandemonium aside, Groupon is still in business and the British public still seem bang up for a bargain.  But for anyone considering setting up a deal for the first time with Groupon, I’d like to share some very honest, non-jargon advice/views based on my recent experiences of working with Groupon on behalf of a client.

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Clwb Ifor Bach/Multimedia/Rubberbandits

Having discovered the Rubberbandits through Youtube, I instantly had big love for these two Irish mentalists, their comedy, videos & music. All of which award winning, I think they even have an MTV show on the go, wey hey! Anyhoo, last night I was chuffed to see that they were coming to Cardiff to gig at Clwb Ifor Bach…

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THINK DIGITAL Cardiff: Your Feedback

On Friday 11th November 2011 we held our first digital event in Cardiff, THINK DIGITAL. Our aim was to collaborate with other digital professionals in Cardiff and put together a collection of presentations which would both (hopefully!) inform and inspire. Our target audience for the event was local businesses, from start-ups to medium sized companies, possibly with a web presence in place but with scope for improvement and room for ideas and inspiration.


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To Infinity & Beyond!

This is a nice little interactive flash application that attempts to demonstrate just how big

our universe is, and just how insignificantly small we really are…..

http://www.primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/index.php

Think Digital – New Cardiff Business Event

Being a web company means your clients can be all over, from London to New Zealand, New York to South Africa. Sounds glam, but I think it’s easy to forget what’s on your doorstep – and there’s a great saying: ‘Don’t forget your roots, for they’ll always support you‘, which I think is a nice approach to working with local companies. When I started at Big Eye Deers, I was keen to meet up with local business people… Continue reading

DJ Shadow @ Cardiff Uni Hall 03/0911

I’ve been a massive fan of Josh Davis’ work for many a year, from his early Unkle days, right through to his solo projects – DJ Shadow has produced amazing ground-breaking albums and is a true pioneer in electronic music. The highlights for me being Private Press and Endtroducing.

When hearing he was playing in Cardiff, I jumped at the chance to go see him and was not disappointed, the audio and visuals was master-class in presentation – DJ Shadow rocked the Cardiff Uni Hall for over an hour with a an awesome mix of old classics and new material.

I’m really looking forward to new DJ Shadow album ‘The Less You Know, The Better’ to be released late September.

Until then, check out the visuals from the night.

DJ Shadow@Cardiff Halls

Riot inspired Advertising with Google Adwords

We’re a website agency, and know you have to (eurgh, excuse the term…) *strike whilst the iron’s hot* with online campaigns and suchlike, but surely whoever dreamt up this Google Ads campaign “HOLIDAY PRICES WORTH RIOTING ABOUT” is either:

A) The type who rings a bell when he/she makes a sale

B) Someone who frequently uses the term “Think outside the box”

C) Is a bit ‘rad’, overdid it on the narcotics as a teen and has an alter ego named Daz

or

D) Is an absolutely desperate stereotypical advertising c*nt

You decide…

 

 

Facebook: Back To Old School

Facebook has become well known for rolling out updates that seem to detract from the user experience and doing so without any user consultation.  The latest batch of updates includes widely discussed and globally despised chat (I’ve yet to hear anyone say anything positive about it).  Not since Microsoft’s awful Internet explorer 6 have I seen such a massive company disregard so many industry standards and principles.

Thankfully though some lovely people have whipped up a nice little add on for Chrome and Firefox that runs a bit of javascript every time your Browser hits Facebook and changes the chat window back to the old style.  The script install in seconds on Chrome, however in Firefox you need to install the Greasemonkey add on first.

Currently there isn’t support for IE or Safari browser, but quite frankly if you use either of those browsers you don’t deserve to have the old Facebook chat back! ;)

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