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Communications

The fantastic five of blogging

Feb 26th

Posted by Mark in Communications

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Look­ing back over my recent blog posts you may have noticed that each one rep­res­en­ted one of five dif­fer­ent styles of blog­ging. This was a delib­er­ate attempt by me to test them and to see if one was bet­ter received than the oth­ers. Let’s look a bit closer. More >

The death of digital

Feb 19th

Posted by Mark in Communications

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February’s issue of Revolu­tion magazine talks in great detail about the term ‘digital’ in rela­tion to mar­ket­ing and com­mu­nic­a­tions. To quote the editor, Gareth Jones, “The days of digital being used as a moniker for a spe­cific way of think­ing or doing busi­ness are well and truly numbered”. More >

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Five essential skills for web designers

Feb 14th

Posted by Mark in Communications

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Dur­ing my work­ing life I have picked up and been form­ally trained in vari­ous skills. Some of these gradu­ally fell away as I moved through my career but some have stuck fast and these are the essen­tial skills that I use on a reg­u­lar basis when devel­op­ing and design­ing web sites. More >

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Digital: the hardback edition

Feb 3rd

Posted by Mark in Communications

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Here I am, furi­ously study­ing for my MSc, when a thought struck me.

Given that this is a course on digital mar­ket­ing com­mu­nic­a­tions, why has my book col­lec­tion increased over the past few months?

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Welcome to the world of tomorrow!

Jan 30th

Posted by Mark in Communications

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Fuelled by this week’s MSc “home­work”, I have been engaged in quite a few con­ver­sa­tions about innov­a­tions and near-future tech­no­logy. What I found was that is becom­ing more and more com­mon­place to find tech­no­logy in the real world that fea­tured in science-fiction stor­ies. What is scary, how­ever, is how fast the pre­di­citions in fic­tion are becom­ing true (per­haps there is a need to re-write Moore’s Law to reflect this?). In this first part of a series of my take on real-world use of fant­astic tech­no­logy I am look­ing at the Ges­ture User Inter­face — trail-blazed by Apple’s iPod Touch, iPhone and, most recently, the iPad. More >

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