Web designers at Forescene are ever mindful that fun sells. Educators are notorious for the comment that people learn best when they are enjoying themselves, well this seems to be true as well when using websites.
This can be clearly seen by the rapid growth that certain websites have witnessed. The location networking sites have become [...]
Posts Tagged ‘social networking’
Fun Sells – How to Liven up Your Website
April 9th, 2010 in Business Website, Consumers, Social Media
AOL Calls It a Day With BEBO
April 7th, 2010 in News, Social Media
Forescene Creative Solutions have been following the growth of social networking and could see Bebo was falling behind. Internet giant, AOL is set to put the floundering, social network site Bebo out of its misery and put the biggest shopping mistake of their lives behind them. Ever since the appointment of new CEO, Tim Armstrong [...]
E-Commerce – Which Social Media Advertising Works
April 3rd, 2010 in Social Media, Web Marketing
As social networks increase in popularity continues unabated, more advertisers are looking at how they can promote their products successfully on the vast pool of consumers. A study conducted by Psychster Inc and Allrecipes to find out what forms of advertising worked best for sites like Facebook, Bebo and MySpace.
The format of ads that the [...]
Old Style Street shopping on the World Stage
March 27th, 2010 in Consumers, Social Media
Years ago before the age of multi-mega conglomerates dominated the retail sector, people shopped at the small corner deli and convenience stores, they met neighbors, talked, laughed and cried. Much of this local social shopping element has been lost from many towns and shopping malls but with the advent of social networking there is a [...]
Five Useful reasons to Network Professionally
March 25th, 2010 in Business Website, Social Media
There is a lot of talk about social networking, Twittering, re-tweeting and blog writing, but just what are the benefits of professional social networking. There are two type of social networking, the purely social sites like Facebook, Bedo and Myspace where people meet with friends or relatives and keep in touch and the professional business [...]
Tags: Bedo, blog writing, Ecademy, Facebook, Linkedin, Myspace, Plaxo, re-tweeting, social networking, Twittering
When Social Networking Goes Bad – Pasquale Manfredi
March 18th, 2010 in Social Media
Social Networking is a common enough phenomenon these days and Forescene designers always advise users to keep it simple and avoid controversy when engaging with your clients online. There have been a number of incidents worldwide where users have been caught out commenting on their employers or loosing insurance policies due to photos they have [...]
Twitter @Anywhere
March 18th, 2010 in Social Media
Opinions of Twitter vary depending on who you talk to but if you are one of those how find it useful in maintaining contact the micro blog site have just announced another development that should get is fans drooling.
The new platform called @Anywhere now allows third party users to add a plug-in so you can [...]
CNN See Facebook as The Main Competition
March 13th, 2010 in News, Social Media
Jon Klein, the President of CNN says that his fears are not of competition from the two million Fox viewers but from the 200 million members on Facebook. He believes that the social network platform is more of a threat than traditional broadcasting sources.
These comments come after a recent survey for Hitwise that showed the [...]
How to Build Your Customer List
March 6th, 2010 in Consumers, Social Media
So you have your website, you blog and write regular interesting, content rich articles and included colorful eye-catching pictures. How do you go about increasing the numbers of customers attracted to your site because all there is at present are family and friends?
To ensure you have a growing army of interested followers in your website [...]
Geo Tagging for Small Businesses
February 22nd, 2010 in Business Website, Mobile, Social Media, Web Trends
Small local businesses can help increase their profiles with very little cost and effort by looking into geo tagging. The latest in Internet marketing tool allows companies to place their details on platforms, which in turn keep customers aware of local service provision.
All of these websites offer real time updates straight to cell phones and [...]
Tags: BrightKite, Foresquare, geo, geotagging, google buzz, Gowalla, Local Trends, Loopt, MyTown, NearMe, smartphones, Social Media, social networking, tagging
