Ten deadly sins of the mobile web

Following on from the above post about last night’s Mobile Marketing shindig we’ve summarised the top design and content mistakes that companies make when they transfer their online site to the mobile web.

Worthy of bearing in mind, I’m sure you’ll agree:

1) Not environmentally specific

2) Ignoring limitations of mobile devices

3) Failing to exploit the possibilites of mobile devises - it takes calls, its a calendar, it contains gps – you can take advantage of all of these.

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27 June 2008 by Suzanne Morrow

Digg – the prototype for the future web

While having a browse online I came across this little belter - A Beginner's Guide To Digg on the Pronet Advertising blog. It’s two years old but hey it’s still pretty good.

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24 June 2008 by Suzanne Morrow

It’s a treasure map but not as we know it


Ok it’s official. I’ve tried to deny it, talk myself out of it but I am indeed a geek. It’s true. Hey, it’s cool to be a geek. I would even go as far to call it chic. Geek-chic.

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24 June 2008 by Suzanne Morrow

Festival of socially powered media in the post-broadcast era

Over the 2nd and 3rd of July the 2gether08 festival in London will look at how ideas and popular technology interact. The event is a forum that looks at improving our lives through digital media. Those presenting or developing ideas in the sessions at 2gether08 can take advantage of potential investment from 4IP’s £50 million fund.

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11 June 2008 by Suzanne Morrow

Digital skills shortage: pure economics?

At Chinwag we’ve been chatting about the skills shortage in digital for some time. We did a survey on the topic too at the end of 2007 to find out exactly how digital was faring. The results were quite worrying.

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10 June 2008 by Suzanne Morrow

Risk management and social media

Apparently, in 2007, 16% of companies saw confidential information divulged online, 1 in 10 saw financial information leaked and ¾ of companies disciplined employees for abuse of email. So how do you know if your employees aren't divulging company secrets online? Simple – you don’t.

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9 June 2008 by Suzanne Morrow

A creative collective - training discounts for web and print design

Want authorized Adobe training? Want a training provider accredited to ISO:9001? Want to work with Chinwag’s training partner? Want all this at a 10% discount for being a Chinwag reader? Find out how you can benefit.

Mekon Creatives, the leading training and recruitment provider to the design and creative industries is teaming up with Chinwag - a creative partnership of sorts.

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6 June 2008 by Suzanne Morrow

BBC News Interactive moves centre-stage

In the words of Pete Clifton, the BBC’s head of News Interactive: “Online now drives tv content”.

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6 June 2008 by Suzanne Morrow

Journalists tooling-up for the instant web

Has Video Killed the Blogging Star? This was the question posed by the 4 o’clock session at this week’s Social Media Influence conference in London.

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6 June 2008 by Suzanne Morrow

365 friends: It's the year of the geek

God bless my parents. Heaven knows how they coped. I was a right rotter in my teens. All loud music, piercings and dyed blacker than black hair. My music was their biggest bug bear. “Like a fire engine in a tumble dryer” was how my dad described the racket emanating from my pit.

Fast forward to today and the generation gap has slowly disappeared.

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6 June 2008 by Suzanne Morrow