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Getting serious about Social Media

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Marketing professionals should know by now how important it is to have a social media strategy in place - ensuring that you make proper use of custom designed blogs, micro-sites, Twitter, Facebook and so forth in addition to your main company website.
At Cite we’ve been specialising in this field for some time and have therefore [...]

Bit.ly up the game as Goo.gl chases fast

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

The war is on and the kiddy gloves are off. With the increased success of URL shortening sites such as Bit.ly (the year’s fastest growing website) and Tiny, the big boys have decided to join the party.
It’s no surprise really, with the increase of Twittering and other social networking activities more people are sending shortened [...]

Cite attend Microsoft MWord event

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Although in the main we use open-source software for technical development - Joomla, Wordpress, Magento etc - we like to keep an eye on what our friends at Microsoft are up to. This is the second invite-only event we have attended this year, and a good opportunity to meet a range of industry specialists, from [...]

Web 3.0 - the semantic web is coming

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, is the computer scientist and MIT professor credited with inventing the World Wide Web. Not satisfied with a bit of web 2.0 social interaction, Sir Tim’s vision for next generation of web sites and services involves developing applications that are capable of computing semantic searches, so called web 3.0.
Way back in [...]

Take over of the iPhone and other Internet-enabled devices

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

There’s no denying, the iphone is a thing of beauty, and not only does it look good, it does everything short of making your morning brew.
So it comes as no surprise that an estimated 10 million iPhones were sold in 2008, and that iPhone applications have risen from 2,000 to over 10,000 in a matter [...]

Blogging about blogs - and why Wordpress rocks

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Over the past couple of  years we’ve created loads of blog for our clients. Some like Mio Destino and Design4Retail are clearly designed as both marketing and news channels whilst the likes of Red Rocket is a personal site for PR professional, Phil Szomszor.
Our most recent piece has been an extensive update for those alternative [...]

Advertising potential from RSS feeds

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

RSS feeds provide a way of sharing your news with others.  It doesn’t matter which particular feeder they use, whether it’s Google, Yahoo or one of the many downloadable varieties, it serves as a hub to steadily stream news about your company. So rather than sending an email to those who are interested in your [...]

New website launch for WMRO

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Our latest web site launch is for WMRO (The West Midlands Cultural Observatory). This Birmingham based organisation offer public agencies, private firms and voluntary and community organisations in the West Midlands improved access to well-organised information, thereby improving the quality of strategy formulation, policy making and service provision.
Our involvement was creative, working in partnership with [...]

Experiencing future technology

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Vodafone have created a window to the future, displaying types of communication they see happening before its time. This site annotates the possibility of future technology in a believable fashion. Visual bracelets and electronic paper portray how innovative technology can be, and by displaying the possibilities in what seems like a believable manor, with the [...]

Virtual strikes on Second Life and awareness raising blogs!

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

No longer forced into the cold for hours on end to get their point across, in September last year strikers at IBM in Italy took to the virtual streets to protest at their unfair pay settlement. An article in this week’s economist describes how 2,000 employees logged on to stage their virtual protest. [...]