Never heard of Wilbing? Well I’m not sure the word has really been coined, it probably still dwells as an acronym in some sort of linguistic limbo, but Workplace Internet Leisure Browsing (WILB) is good for your productivity according to Melbourne University research.
There is a woman that haunts the Stones Corner Hotel, my local watering hole. She is a blow-up doll version of Marilyn Monroe. Not to be taken seriously. Perhaps even pitied. In the old days of search engines, the blow-up doll versions of Marilyn Monroe could get equal ranking with the real Marilyn Monroes, because the search engines believed whatever was in their advertising, otherwise called metadata.
One of our client sites was recently hacked to promote pharmaceuticals – the so-called “pharma hack”.
There is probably more money wasted on search engine optimisation (SEO) than any other aspect of website design. We all know there is no such thing as a free lunch, but for curious reasons, many of us are actually prepared to pay for one.
The Internet is forcing its way into the mother of parliaments with both sides in the UK proposing to require parliamentary debates on epetitions which gain more than a certain number of signatures.
Accountability and transparency means that most government agencies are fastidious (at least in theory) at recording as much as they can of interactions between them and the public. Ideally you will have detailed and accurate records which are readily available to the client citizen. So social networking sites pose a particular challenge.
We’re big fans of open government at Internet Thinking, but I don’t think we’d advise any of our clients to go as far as they have in open.alabama.gov.
Australia ranks fourth in the world for business Internet service after USA, Japan and Singapore, but before Hong Kong, England, Canada and Korea according to a survey by serviced office providers Servcorp.
A long time ago, in a far off inner city suburb, I used to run a boutique (read small) advertising agency. We were constantly advising our clients on how to measure and analyse the responsiveness of their direct marketing efforts – as all good agencies should. Absolute, irrefutable return on investment was and still is the holy grail but actually achieving that is harder than you may think.
Being a Twitter newbie I am still going from “what is the big fuss” to “I would rather die than not have Twitter” (which is apparently my eventual fate ever since setting up my account). So it was fascinating yesterday to see that as the Liberal Party went into meltdown, Twitter was ahead of even the online news services presumably because the same journos that send news back to the …
