Digi Nut was recently featured on the increasingly useful Enterprise Nation. The interview covers everything from our ‘charming’ name, clients and My Neighbourhoods, to the benefits of home working. Read the full article by clicking on the link below. Thank you to Emma Jones for the interview.
Providing web design and web development services for clients and running a growing social network like My Neighbourhoods means I have to regularly manage and create search engine optimisation strategies. Anyone who does this knows that successful SEO is a long term job. For example, it took a great deal of planning and competitor research to get My Neighbourhoods to number one in Google for the term ‘my neighbours’, number three for ‘my area’ and on the first page for ‘my street’. We’ve only just begun and search engine optimisation should be a weekly part of most web site strategies.
So it’s a joy every so often to come across a resource that actually makes your job easier. That’s where BlogStorm comes in. I happened upon this blog while, unsurprisingly, researching SEO techniques on Google. It’s extremely well written and avoids most of the fluff and hyperbole you get with a lot of blogs around search engine optimisation. Pay a visit to BlogStorm today and sign up to email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed.
I’ve been working a lot recently with the Script.aculo.us JavaScript library and simple documentation is lacking to say the least. Luckily I came across an excellent cheat sheet by Amy Hoy over at Slash7. Download it below.
The excellent Sunday Times Style magazine covered My Neighbourhoods once again, this time in relation to an article on the return of community spirit in the UK. I spoke to Fleur Britten about the impact our own site and other local movements are having in bringing back neighbourliness. Read more on the Times website below.
We’re delighted to be working with Nick Mair from Atticus Associates on their new identity, branding and web site. Atticus Associates provide specialist consultants in the IT and Insurance sector. Check out the new web site.
And get in touch with Nick if you have any consultant requirements.
We’re delighted to be working with the excellent team over at WeeWorld on an exciting new project (details to follow). At WeeWorld, other than being an extremely popular social network, you can create a WeeMee character - your own personal avatar, which is a cartoon version that looks just like you. Over 16 million WeeMees have been created globally and half a million are created each month.
I look forward to blogging about the project when we launch very soon.
What promises to be the party of the year for the media industry, Big Summer ‘07 has been organised by new media and digital marketing site Chinwag. The event promises networking, BBQ, drinks and entertainment:
Join us for the biggest get-together of folk the new media sector in the UK has seen this year, generously supported by our partners Adobe, Agency.com, Channel 4 and Purple.
The party, at the historic Imperial College Union in South Kensington, London, will encompass 5 rooms and the enclosed quadrangle, chock full of innovative and exciting games, exclusive entertainment and giveaways, alongside the full complement of refreshments and delicious BBQ food.
I’ve read Chinwag for a while now and it’s good to see them coming up with a different way of getting people in the industry together. Compared to the usual stuffy hotel-based affair where people nervously pluck up the courage to hand out as many business cards as possible, this should be one to remember. It looks like it will be extremely popular so register now to avoid missing out.
Details: Thursday 5th July 2007 @ 6.30pm (runs until 12:30am), Imperial College Union, Beit Quad, Prince Consort Road, London, SW7 2BB, cost: FREE, includes: Summer BBQ, drinks, entertainment and lots of networking.
This month’s “On location” mashup* event, sponsored by My Neighbourhoods, was a lively and interesting affair. Topics of the evening included location data and Location Based Services (LBS). In addition to sponsoring the event I was asked to sit on the panel along side Rik Temmink (TeleAtlas), Ed Parsons (Google), Ed Freyfogle (Nestoria), John Robinson (SMSCard) and John Abbott (widr).
Around 120 people turned out for what was an excellent evening. Mobile and location-based applications are clearly going to rise in popularity over the coming months while there was a great deal of debate around the subject of personal data, privacy and giving away your location. There’s an excellent write up of the evening at Jay Fresh’s blog.
I was asked by the nice people at Intruders.tv to take part in a video interview for My Neighbourhoods. The Intruders site was created by Vincent Camara, with a presence in England, France and more launching soon. It’s an interesting alternative to static blogging and I thoroughly enjoyed taking part. You can see the full interview on the Intruders.tv web site.
Tomorrow is the popular mashup* event, organised by etribes founder Simon Grice. This week’s theme is “On location”, focusing on the value of “where one is”. I’ll be there as My Neighbourhoods is sponsoring the event along side a number of other location-based services. The evening will cover:
Find out more on the mashup* site or register to attend. Come and say hello if you attend.
