Rise of the Robots
I have to say, when I first heard Facebook’s announcement about ‘chat bots‘ being the Next Big Thing ™, I was a tad skeptical. However, as the dust begins to settle, I may well be changing my mind… I was cautious…
Glass Mountains
Campfire
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Personal Hashtags with Gavin Hill-John
In this week’s Campfire blog post, I chat to Gavin Hill-John about ‘personal hashtags‘. What are these, you ask? Well, check this tweet out: Progress on the paperwork pile is being made but it is very slow #managethemayhem — Gavin…
Website launch: Space-Lectures.com
It gives me great pleasure to announce the launch of a freshly redesigned website for space-lectures.com. I’m a massive NASA fan and space nut, so I was really happy when I stumbled across a UK based charity that held events where us mere…
Helen Reynolds and #HatsOffNewport
In this week’s post, I’ve posed a couple of question to Helen Reynolds about her very successful, #HatsOffNewport social media campaign. First off, a bit about Helen… Helen started using social media in local government in 2007 with a MySpace page dedicated to getting…
Plucking Figures Out The Air
This week I had my most retweeted tweet and shared item on LinkedIn: In case you missed it, here's a great exchange I had re pricing yesterday…. pic.twitter.com/X86fac9vy7 — Joel Hughes (@Joel_Hughes) November 25, 2015 Now I was hesitant at sharing…
Websites, ROI, and denial
I was speaking to someone the other day who is a business partner in a small company. Their website is poor; it has hobbled along the last couple of years; not getting the attention or investment it deserves – a…
Google & Mobile Friendly Websites etc
There has been a lot of news recently about Google & mobile friendly websites, I’d like to spend a few minutes giving you the low down about this… Google are now penalising websites that do not offer a positive mobile browsing experience. There, I’ve…
What’s wrong with a cheap website?
I read a great post today, “What A Free Website Says About Your Company“, and I was leaving such a lengthy comment that I thought I’d better turn it into a blog post instead. My company’s websites start from a…
Don’t let me down (on Twitter)
Social media is a cracking opportunity for businesses (especially the little guys) but many times folks are completely stumped as to the first steps to take. A common cry is “what would I say?! Why would anyone be interested in…
Twitter Image Preview Help Guide
Recently Twitter ‘upgraded’ the experience so that images are automatically previewed in the timeline. This means that, when you are viewing your tweets via the Twitter website or via the official apps; pictures are not just links; you get a…
“My Heroes of the Apollo Project” (Ignite Cardiff Talk)
Recently I was lucky enough to be able to talk at the Ignite event in Cardiff. If you’ve not come across Ignite before, it’s great fun (if a little whacky). Basically you have 5 mins to give your talk but…
WordPress.com & nice call to action buttons
During the restructure of my business I’ve been using this blog as my main website (more details on the reasoning behind that here). I do like using WordPress.com (as opposed to self-hosting) as, on this occasion, I like living with…