How did the US military’s twitter account get hacked?
In case you missed it, the US military had a little problem with their Twitter and Youtube accounts. You can read more about what happened here but basically group claiming to back Islamic State took over their accounts and posted a load of things that I imagine the US military weren’t to happy about. The US military […]
Why you need a professional web designer
When I first began designing websites, it was something you could only do if you knew a lot of code. It wasn’t something everyone could do – well maybe if they took the time to learn, but it wasn’t something most people wanted to do. Today, there are ways that are far easier. We live […]
What Does Your Business Card Say About You?
I’ve just spent my morning sorting out my desk. I’ve dealt with a load of paper work and taken all the business cards I had stacked up and put the details in Outlook. I even dropped a quick line to people I was keen to keep in touch with. As I was entering the […]
Build it and they will come?
In “Field of Dreams” farmer Ray Kinsella played by Kevin Costner hears a voice in his corn field tell him, “If you build it, he will come.” He takes this as an instruction to build a baseball field on his farm. For a long time no one comes but eventually (and not to give the […]
Are you in or out?
Automatic “Out of office” messages are a great way of letting your clients know that their email has reach you but there will a delay in your response as you are out of the office. They take a few minutes to set up and can be a simple “I’m out of the office until X […]
How Many Social Media Experts Does It Take To Change A Light Bulb?
………One to Tweet it, one to create a Facebook page, one to write a blog about the whole experience, one to create an email marketing campaign, one to post to LinkedIn, one to say you could have sped up the whole process by using Hootsuite or Tweetdeck…… You get the picture! It seems everywhere you […]
Down with the Popping Up Windows
The other day I was working on an old but normally well behaved, if somewhat slow laptop (hard drive needs replacing but that is something for another day) started popping up browser windows of its own accord. Now my browser of choice is on that particular laptop is Firefox (I’m a Chrome girl for the most […]
Warning –The Slow Computer Scam
After time it’s all too easy for your computer to start to feel a bit sluggish. We’ve all sat there wishing things were going faster. And because of this, those lovely scam artists have devised a way to utilise our annoyances to get money out of people. It all starts with a phone call from […]
Why good photography is important for your website
Do you sell a product on your website? Good then this is the blog for you! I was looking for some paper flower bouquets to send to friend. So I hit Google and starting looking around. I found lots of sites but didn’t end up buying anything, even though I had a credit card waiting. […]
Scheduling Posts in Facebook
Did you know you can schedule Facebook posts directly from Facebook? (Yes I know you can that by using applications like Hootsuite, Tweetdeck etc but it’s nice to have options and you know exactly what your post will look like if you do it directly in Facebook) NB this works if you have a Facebook […]
Your Elevator Pitch – Don’t talk for too long
Having a good elevator pitch is an essential skill when networking. Most networking groups will have a point in the meeting when you get to stand up and talk about yourself from somewhere between 30 seconds to 2 minutes – the time it takes to ride from the ground floor to the top floor in […]
