Congratulations to James Whatley for a fine piece of crisis management on the SpinVox blog. They have been under fire following a BBC article by Rory Cellan-Jones here , SpinVox's response   and his latest rebuttal here . Kevin has followed the clear rules of how to diffuse a crisis by sticking to the plain [...]








This is a photo fo what dropped through my client's letter box this morning.  She opened a bank account with Alliance and Leicester for her new business. 17 pieces of mail relating to the account! Surely these could be combined into a single parcel? The world's gone mad.








One of my clients just got their very first email newsletter from a supplier.  Oh my goodness, it is so DULL.  Here's the opening paragraphs Welcome to the first edition of XYZ's Connections e-Newsletter, designed to provide timely information and tools to help your business run more efficiently. The cornerstone of our first issue is [...]








THe good just got really great. sending unsolicited and inappropriate marketing messages has always been close to what we now call spam.   In the blogosphere, this direct approach without first establishing an online relationship and credentials / rights is considered more invasive and inappropriate than in the offline or email-only world. Bloggers are very [...]








What a disappointment.  I was driven to the O2 website by an advert for their new Bluebook service. Curious, I watched the demo  and so I signed up.  Seemed a nice idea to keep all you sms updates, photos and phone numbers backed up.   and then having gone through all the registration process, received [...]








The dark underside of the internet – picking up all the things said about your brand online.  Within a short period of time things can go wrong and the internet can change.  But we can harness that open-ness for good.A future that is basically here, the near future.  If we all have access to all [...]








Key learning: Community is Grown not built. “building community” is for architects not online. Read the wisdom of crowds. And build the tools people can use and trust them to use appropriately. You may remember Fray from very old web. Derek started it in 1996 as a live story telling site. Each story ended with [...]








They wrote a book, called Web Design for ROI. Key learning from this session: Judgements made are very quickly online. Improved design can make users take more actions that you want them to do. Small % improvements can lead to significant ££$$ revenue growth. Reasons for writing it – frustration… the business case and the [...]








When top bloggers complain publicly about not being able to work or use a bit of software, it is clear that the world will quickly try it for themselves, and spread the word. i am not a techie… but I am reasonably competent at using technology. But long ago, I learnt to apply the “David [...]








Just got registration confirmation email…. and another trick missed. If you feel that a colleague would also benefit from visiting Technology For Marketing & Advertising, please forward this email where they can register for FREE at: http://www.t-f-m.co.uk/colleague I left the link unconcealed so that you can see there is no embedded connection to ME. The [...]