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What could a Tipperary shopkeeper teach me about doing business in the Digital Age?
A trip to Tipperary reminded me that some lessons about modern business have little to do with Digital.
By Conor
Hireland. Thumbs-up. Not thumb-suck.
First Advertising is proud to support Hireland.
By Gavin
How a dodgy website can cost you business, and how a good social media strategy can turn it around
Are you spending thousands driving people to a website that doesn’t work properly?
By Jamie
Is Responsive Design really the future of web design?
Is the fashionable method of making websites change appearance on different devices really worth the added expense?
By Jamie
Neuromarketing: Where Marketing meets Mind Science.
The emerging field of Neuromarketing is cloaked in both mystique and misunderstanding. Can advertisers really press your “buy” button by manipulating your subconscious?
By Johnny
Solve the crisis? I can’t even pronounce Evangelos Venizelos.
There is consternation with the tragic Greeks and their seeming inability to get their fiscal act together.
By Conor
The future of advertising. Let’s have a whip around.
The communications industry is tied to technological advancement. Change will continue to accelerate and present opportunities. These are opportunities that we can’t see now because they haven’t been invented yet.
By Conor
The problem with Ireland is…...
Look to our greatness and start being proud of what we are and imagine what we can become.
By Conor
The Great CCTV Camera of History
We are leaving behind such massive amounts of information about our lives, that genealogy of the future will be less like treasure hunting, and more like data-mining.
By Jamie
Who poured yours?
Lots of people use the 'glass half full or glass half empty’ measure of optimism or pessimism. Whether you are a glass half full person or the other one really doesn’t matter, what matters is who fills your glass in the first place.
By Conor
Reading this may affect your rights
I believe that the opposite of right in these testing times is not wrong or left but responsibility. For every "right" we either have or are due a degree of responsibility…..
By Conor
What does neuroplasticity have to do with web design?
The Information Age is putting increasing stress on our Stone Age brains. But how are the neurological consequences of this influencing how we design websites? And how can you avoid becoming a hunter-gatherer in the "electronic data forest"?
By Jamie
That’s no way to start the day….
The average urbanite indulges in some strange behaviour. Some of it is thoughtless, some of it is just plain daft.
By Conor
6 Digital Media Trends for 2011
We take a look at what's in store as we enter the second decade of the 21st century.
By Jamie