This is a guest post by Jan Rajtoral AKA Gonzo the Great, founder of gonzodesign, who provides design services across the full spectrum of Brand Identity, Graphic Design, Print and Advertising Design & Website Design. In this new series of posts we’re going to take a look at what has been published last month in [...]

I have very mixed feelings about social media. And that’s why it’s almost taken until now to really start to work with these tools in a business capacity. For all the benefits that it provides, I have had some serious hang-ups when joining, and participating in, social media. And, I’ll tell you why. Loss of [...]

This is a post from Angela Nielsen of One Lily Creative Agency, a full-service web and print design company. Angela loves creating designs that win awards for clients, and is addicted to the thrill of helping people make sense of all this web-techno-marketing stuff. They say the proof is in the numbers. If that’s the [...]

This is a guest post by Chico Charlesworth. He has created a geographic visualisation with the help of his BBC colleague, Tom Martin. The visualisation mashes up location-aware social data to visually capture people’s experiences and reactions to the royal wedding. It was built in three days and is showcased as a video and

40 years ago the first email was sent. The email simply said ‘qwertyuiop’, and was sent to the computer sitting next to it. It’s not possible for anyone to have predicted how our world would change after the successful sending of that first message.

Saving time on Twitter and handling it more efficiently is key for me. Especially as you can easily waste hours and hours without getting anything else done

Yep, we all know social networks are a big deal and all. But our friends from Tech King released a new stellar infographic to show you just How incredibly popular Social Networking really is. Check it out

Our friends from Schweppes released a cool app recently, regarding the newest hype on Facebook where users can take the advantage of Facebook’s new profile design. Here’s all you need to know: How to enable new Facebook Profile design for your profile? Step 1: Goto the announcement page. Step 2: Click on “Get thew New [...]

Social media marketers take note. In light of the recent midterm elections, what do Foursquare, Twitter and Facebook all have in common? If you said that they all care deeply about democracy, well…you’d be wrong. (And if you said that they are all social media giants, well then, you’d be Captain Obvious). The answer? They all know how to leverage a social event and they know how to make themselves useful.

The last edition of the Inspired Giveaway was a massive hit so we continue to offer brilliant web related books – this time in collaboration with Rob Ford of the FWA fame and TASCHEN Books. The Internet Case Study Book is nothing else than the bible of any web entrepreneur!

So this is a post covering Advertising for the Next Now Generation – Facebook ads are especially useful because they target a smaller, and potentially more likely, market for your products by focusing on factors such as location, age, education, etc., while weeding out the least likely customers.