It looks as if the financial services market is about to go through a major recession. But within every recession the seeds of recovery are always sown and the commercial realism for the economic failing is brought to light. The result is always a shakedown and a more realistic realignment of the industry.
For instance, it [...]

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Its a very human trait to solve the problem you are comfortable and familiar with rather than the problem that really needs to be addressed.
In our industry you see this when someone looks at the web analytics and deduces that your website is not working and ipso facto you need a redesign.
The reality is that [...]

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The ever excellent TED Talks gives us this video of marketing guru Seth Godin holding forth on: “Sliced bread and other marketing delights”.
The key message is that interesting stuff grabs attention and conveys messages better than stuff which ain’t. (Oh and look out for the way that the TED video lets you skip to the [...]

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Imagine you’re a marketeer who has gone through all the difficult work of getting your content online.
You will probably have done your audience segmentation and usability testing, designed your information architecture, created your taxonomies, produced creatives in line with corporate guidelines, selected your CMS, posted and reworked all those volumes of content and then gone [...]

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For eight years I plied my trade as an online journalist. My mission, should I have no choice but to accept it, was to attract readers to pages where adverts were served. For every 1,000 page impression a piece of content received we could expect something like £10 (plus any sponsorship for the relevant section).
That’s [...]

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It was once the great technology debate de nos jours: PC or Mac? Gates or Jobs? Windows or Leopard?
Now there is an answer. Take some dots. Join them up. Here are the numbers for how many devices people use globally:
Macs: 30+ million
PCs: 300+ million
Mobile phones: 3+ billion
Ladies and gentlemen, we have winner. And it’s in [...]

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Along with seemingly every other agency in Scotland we at w00tonomy have just completed the pre-qualification questionnaire, the first stage in the process of trying to become one of the companies that supplies digital marketing services to the Scottish Government. It’s a massive contract so the PQQ is a big deal.
Of course, we weren’t phased [...]

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For those of you who are still struggling with what this Web 2.0 thing is, I’ve some bad news (though really it’s great news): Web 3.0 is just around the corner, according to the man who invented these tangled Webs.
Tim Berners-Lee says in an interview with Paul Miller that the Semantic Web - a crucial [...]

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