Archive for February, 2010


WSI Collectively Raised $8,000 for Haiti Relief

Posted February 15th, 2010 by John-Paul in Company News, Miscellaneous, WSI Company News

The WSI network is part of the the Make Child Poverty History (MCPH). As part of this charity WSI has raised funds for the Haiti Relief Fund, to provide much needed resources to those who were affected by the earthquake that struck Haiti in January.

WSI has franchises worldwide, and franchise members have been donating to the fund. WSI Home Office matched the donations from the entire IC network, which means that WSI collectively raised $8,000 toward the Haiti relief efforts!
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Google is getting into Social Media with Google Buzz

Posted February 10th, 2010 by John-Paul in Miscellaneous, Social Media Marketing, Social Networking

Google has started to roll out its own Social Media platform to take on Twitter and Facebook. Check in your Gmail account over the next few days to see if you have access! It’s also planned to make Google Buzz available to businesses and schools using Google Apps, with added features for sharing within organisations.

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Did You Really Write That?

Posted February 10th, 2010 by Chrisi Reid in Content Management, Search Engine Optimisation

Plagiarism

It’s probably a word you haven’t heard since writing essays in school, when your instructors told you that any evidence of it could result in a failing grade.  But copyright is something to be aware of when creating content for websites and social media campaigns – whether that be asking whether you are legally allowed to use a photograph, a page of text or an idea… or determining whether someone else is entitled to use content you or your clients have created.

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Is Social Media Really Driving Online Sales

Posted February 9th, 2010 by Stephen Harvey-Franklin in Advertising, Microblogging, Search Engine Optimisation, Social Media Marketing, Social Networking

Is Social Media all hype, or is it really delivering on the promise?

We keep hearing about Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc. We even hear about big Social Media phenomenon: The Facebook Group set up to get “Rage against the Machine” to number one in the music charts, the spoiler to stop X-Factor winner Joe McElderry being the Christmas Number One. Dave Carroll’s song on You Tube viewed nearly 7,000,000 times that tells the tale about how United Airlines broke his guitar (Search for United Airlines on YouTube and Dave Carroll’s song comes top every time). Millions of people everyday use some form of Social Media every day; we hear of big company campaigns on Social Media, but does it have a commercial impact for local businesses? The short answer is Yes, very much so.

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Redirecting to Search Engine Friendly URLs

Posted February 9th, 2010 by in Search Engine Optimisation, Website Development

Static URLs are preferable to dynamic URLs that contain variables such as the page ID where search engines are concerned. It’s worth investing the time and/or money in setting up URL rewriting on your website so that www.example.com/index.php?pageID=1 can now be viewed at www.example.com/page-1.htm or even better at www.example.com/page-name.htm. The latter two URLs appear to be static HTML pages but using Apache’s mod_rewrite module and an .htaccess file you can serve the same content as the first URL. The next step is to ensure that anyone accessing the original URL is redirected to the correct new URL with a 301 HTTP status code.

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Tweet Your Way to Success!

Posted February 8th, 2010 by John-Paul in Online Marketing, Social Media Marketing

Twitter is one of the newest and most successful platforms to enter the social media arena in recent years.  Social Media Marketing is still a relatively new concept and many companies have yet to fully embrace the opportunities it offers.  Social Media Marketing if managed correctly can be a highly cost effective form of advertising.  Twitter in particular is proving it is both a great tool for building personal social networks but also as a highly effective marketing tool for building business relationships and attracting new prospective customers.

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