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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!

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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New CMS site for Cyfle.co.uk: LIVE

Cyfle is a dynamic and progressive training company which provides an invaluable and inspiring service to Creative Media Industries in Wales.

Cyfle required a website with functionality to enable them to publish up-to-the-minute multi-medium news, quickly and with ease. Our client’s main objective was to be able to present Course Information and News Stories in a clear and concise way, and for user to be able to find what they are looking for, fast.

We saw that Cyfle needed a website that properly reflect what it has to offer, as well as a platform that the client wouldn’t outgrow, a website to supports its future growth.

The Big Eye Deers Approach

After in-depth content analysis and diagnosing exactly what issues the client was faced with, we designed a website that would focus mainly on providing visitors to the site with up-to-the-minute information on Cyfle’s courses on offer as well as News on a bespoke CMS platform with WordPress Integration and live Twitter & Facebook feeds.

The site was further enhanced by implementing full multilingual capabilities as well as Solr search. We also created a branded newsletter template on a system which would allow our client to speedily send out news and course information to its database – the delivery results and social reach measurable by easy-to-use reporting and analytics.

Please do visit the site for yourself and have a gander at Cyfle’s fantastic courses by clicking here

Most playing – Glitch

Signed up last week and i’ve been hooked since.

What is Glitch? We’ll it’s a massive multi-player social game built by the guys behind Flickr – and it’s all for free.

It’s one big connected world, and your smallest actions can have the most unimaginable consequences apparently. It’s fun and funny. It’s fresh and fantastic.

Sign up today and start exploring this mad new world…

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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

Google+ To Change SEO?

Google+ has been around for about month now and users can now sign up and get involved with the new social media craze. Besides the cool new features that could give it the competitive edge over its neighbouring rivals, other features coming from Google could help rankings of websites through its new social media feature, ‘Circles’ and give sites more credibility through its ‘+1′ buttons. Continue reading

Facebook Instant Mobile Messaging: HEY YOU, GO AWAY!

Facebook – the world’s biggest addiction next to tobacco, alcohol, porn and McDonalds; the place you can visit when in real life your friends are non-existent; your face isn’t tagged and commented on by hundreds of people; your dog doesn’t have a fan page and people don’t ‘like’ what you say.

Facebook, the employer’s nemesis, parents’ worst nightmare, relationship history archive and most often, the only reason why you’re in touch with about 400 hundred people you wouldn’t speak to on the street, let alone have a real time unwanted instant chat which by law begins with ‘hey you’.

Well fear not, facebook self-harmers, now you can get harassed on the move! Just make sure you’re available to chat as you catch the bus, make the tea, go to the hairdresser, stack up on some sweat-shop goodies @ Primani – wherever you are and whatever you’re doing, do it with a chorus of ‘hey you’ in your pocket.

WHY the doubt/dread/fear/animosity, I ask myself? Perhaps it’s because anyone I actually want to talk to knows where I live, will have my mobile number, email address, work email and skype info and (God forbid…) will actually spend time with me in real life, whereas facebook is for all the people who quite simply don’t.

So yes, this is a blog to express how I simply cannot wait for facebook to further distort the line between real life and electronic life by bringing fake profiles even closer. And for the record, if you haven’t met someone in real life, they are not your best friend or lover, and if they try and forge that relationship electronically, particularly if through continued ‘hey you’ pings, then beware! You’ve been warned.

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! ;)

Twentyeleven WordPress Theme

The team at WordPress have recently released their *NEW* in-house theme, ‘twentyeleven’ which now comes as standard with the latest WordPress install (version 3.2.1). The new theme has taken all the features from their older theme, ‘twentyten’ and given it a good ol’ update! Continue reading

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