Tuesday, March 09th 2010
JUST IN! A QUICK REFRESHER TO OUR LAST ARTICLE TODAY
We wanted to tell everyone about this new website we suddenly came across today called FRESHFREESTUFF Fresh news, links, articles about free stuff on the net. Check it out.
Please note, we are in no way associated with this website, we just like it!
Now thinking of this and reflecting on our last article we have decided to post links to all our favourite sites that refer to social media at the moment. Here you go:
Another local source.
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Tuesday, March 08th 2010
What is Social media
We have decided to write our first article which at this time, in this day an age is a very important topic. It’s intended for anyone, but will be most useful to people working in media, marketing and communications.
Social media is best understood as a group of new kinds of online media, which share most or all of the following characteristics:
PARTICIPATION
Social media encourages contributions and feedback from everyone who is interested. it blurs the line between media and audience.
OPEN
Most social media services are open to feedback and participation. they encourage voting, comments and the sharing of information. there are rarely any barriers to accessing and making use of content – password-protected content is frowned on.
CONVERSATION
Whereas traditional media is about “broadcast” (content transmitted or distributed to an audience) social media is better seen as a two-way conversation.
COMMUNITY
Social media allows communities to form quickly and communicate effectively. 5 Communities share common interests, such as a love of photography, a political issue or a favourite tv show.
CONNECTED
Most kinds of social media thrive on their connectedness, making use of links to other sites, resources and people.
BASIC FORMS OF SOCIAL MEDIA
At this time, there are basically six kinds of social media. note, though, that innovation and change are rife.
soCIAl NetWorks
These sites allow people to build personal web pages and then connect with friends to share content and communication. the biggest social networks are Myspace, facebook and bebo.
blogs
Perhaps the best known form of social media, blogs are online journals, with entries appearing with the most recent first.
WIkIs
these websites allow people to add content to or edit the information on them, acting as a communal document or database. the best-known wiki is wikipedia4, the online encyclopaedia which has over 2 million english language articles.
podCAsts
Audio and video files that are available by subscription, through services like apple itunes.
ForuMs
areas for online discussion, often around specific topics and interests. forums came about before the term “social media” and are a powerful and popular element of online communities.
CoNteNt CoMMuNItIes
communities which organise and share particular kinds of content. the most popular content communities tend to form around photos (flickr), bookmarked links (del.icio.us) and videos (Youtube).
MICrobloggINg
social networking combined with bite-sized blogging, where small amounts of content (‘updates’) are distributed online and through the mobile phone network. twitter is the clear leader in this field.
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Tuesday, February 28th 2010
So where do we go next?
After a few late nights at work, we have updated the styles to our website. We hope you like!
We look to updating our Engage & Learn resources section to help clients with problems in such areas assearch engine rankings, attracting links and the best sources to promote your business.
Our purpose is not only to design and develop but help communicate your business to others. Without this we wont be doing our job.
if you think that there’s something oddly familiar about descriptions of social media, it may be that you recall some of the discussions in the 1990s about what the web would become. and many of its emerging manifestations are close to the idealistic imaginings from that time.
a good way to think about social media is that all of this is actually just about being human beings. Sharing ideas, cooperating and collaborating to create art, thinking and commerce, vigorous debate and discourse, finding people who might be good friends, allies and lovers – it’s what our species has built several civilisations on. that’s why it is spreading so quickly, not because it’s great shiny, whizzy new technology, but because it lets us be ourselves – only more so
and it is in the “more so” that the power of this revolution lies. people can find information, inspiration, like-minded people, communities and collaborators faster than ever before. new ideas, services, business models and technologies emerge and evolve at dizzying speed in social media.
Thats it for now, But in our next future articles we will be applying a quick short social media interests and the production and distribution in social media and how it works.
For now take a glance at our resources section "Engage & Learn" for more information on uses of technology with the intention of more rsources towards internet interests.
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Tuesday, February 23rd 2010
Hello World. So where do we begin?
We have a whole load of finished projects ready to be put up. these are brillaint projects and cover the a fair few different clients we gained last year. Most of the subjects are in advertising and marketing which is our specialality covering a range of new businesses based in advertising, book sales, music and fashion.
Simplicity in design is the fundamental concept we work with when designing.
We do extensive group testing to make sure the websites,
print and publishing is accessible and appealing.
Our process has been developed and fined tune over the past years. This unique
approach to the design process is optimized for efficiency and effective communication
through the web and print. We use all possible sources that we can to produce
and develop the company on a higher scale.
Take a glance at some of the projects we have
succesfully produced in our time as a business.
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