Stewart, our relentlessly self-promoting Content Marketing Director, has been holding forth on AllMediaScotland about the future of content. Apparently it’s great.

A funny wee video sending up the whole creative process in modern advertising.

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It useful to step-back sometimes and understand some of the psychology that underpins the social media channels we are using for our online marketing campaigns.
Here is very interesting seminar on Social Media by Mike Wesch of Kansas State University who produced the popular video ‘web 2.0 – what is and how to use it’ – [...]

WRATH – blaming the customer for not caring
The last sin in our series happens when all that excitement over your site launch is a distant memory and you start to hear the murmurings of another site redesign. The lack of post launch editorial planning has started to destroy that great design that you agonised over. [...]

GLUTTONY – just stuff the content in without thinking

We’ve all been there. You know this “content stuff” is important and you know you need a lot of it so you grab big chunks of it and throw it all on the plate.
But the best websites are like a balanced meal, not a bargain [...]

LUST – project blindness and desire to deliver
Businesses and agencies love projects. The project world is a familiar and comfortable place for us all; we know how to scrum, scope, budget,and deliver. And to put icing on the cake we enjoy that great feeling of hitting the finishing line, the launch party.
Too [...]

ENVY – not understanding how others succeeded
Online, your message is fighting for the attention of the user alone against the rest of the internet. There are no sectors, there are no walls. The internet is one vast open playing field. And your message is up against the BBC, YouTube and blogs about kittens.
You’ve [...]

SLOTH – failure to plan beyond launch
This is the sin of indifference to your content and failure to make the most of what you have. It always happens after the dust of the project delivery has settled. The hustle and bustle of the project review meetings are a distant memory of post-it notes [...]

Stewart Kirkpatrick, our Content Marketing Director, has induced a bout of vomiting at w00tonomy with this self-serving communique:
“I have been elected to the New Media Industry Council of the National Union of Journalists (in a jobshare with Euan Williamson of Imagineering). Like nearly every large body, the NUJ has struggled with what the web means [...]

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 [...]