Last August I wrote about how happy I was to see that the BBC had added social bookmarking chicklets to all of their stories as it suggested that they really understood the way the world of new media works.
Unfortunately it would seem like I was being slightly naive as Patrick Altoft has found what looks […]
- Ciaran Norris
- E-Mail: ciaran.norris@altogetherdigital.com
- Web Page: http://www.altogetherdigital.com
- Profile: Ciarán has been working online since taking a job in a Sydney internet cafe in 1999.
He's worked in online marketing since 2000; firstly at two of the UK’s biggest business publishers, covering everything from online PR to subscriptions.
He took up the role of SEO & Social Media Director at new full service digital agency Altogether Digital in April, where he's worked with a variety of major brands, from Mintel to Vonage, Brylcreem to Future Puublishing, helping them put SEO & Web 2.0 at the heart of their marketing activities.
Ciarán has spoken at a variety of events on how the web is changing business, such as Search Marketing Expo (SMX) & the inaugural a4uExpo, as well as for organisations such as the IDM & RBI. He also blogs on digital marketing at SEOmoz and e-consultancy.
Author Archive for Ciaran
BBC Diggs Social Media, But Doesn’t Seem To Get It
SMX Sydney: A Truly Great Conference
I was lucky enough to spend last week in Sydney as I was (as far as I know) the only British speaker invited to speak at the inaugural SMX Sydney, alongside an all-star cast of local & international speakers including Rand Fishkin & Jane Copland (SEOmoz), the most quoted man in search - Gord Hotchkiss […]
Do The Test Goes Viral: A Sign Of The Times?
Hopefully you’ll already have seen the excellent Do The Test video which our friends at WCRS produced for Transport For London, which we’ve been promoting online. If not, where have you been? According to the latest Viral Video Chart, it was the 4th most viral video this week (although today it’s actually 2nd, just behind […]
Xfm Brings Back Daytime DJs
A notice in The Guardian anounces that Xfm has hired Jo Good to host its week-day afternoon. And?
[it is] the latest signing since reversing its policy to drop its daytime DJs.
I missed the announcement that they had decided to bring back daytime DJs. However, in the words of Xfm favourites The Hives, I hate to […]
Bebo, D&D, Social Wars & More
Sorry if we’ve been a bit quiet recently; to say that we’ve all been as busy as a Web 1.0 giant scurrying round looking for social networks to snap up, would be putting it mildly.
So yes, AOL bought Bebo. It took a lot of people by suprise, but TechCrunch mentioned it as a possibility last […]
Why A New Window Is Akin To A Barrier To (Re) Entry
We’re thinking about redesigning our website at the moment and one of the development team sent a straw poll round the office asking what people thought about links opening in new windows. To say that it unleashed a bit of a storm would probably be putting it mildly.
Whilst many people (myself included) felt that links […]
Google’s New “Search Within A Site” Could Hurt Publisher Revenues
Earlier this week Search Engine Land highlighted what appeared to be a test whereby, for certain search queries, a search box would be returned on the main results page allowing further searches to made of the content of the site in questions. Well now this test seems to have been rolled out as a general […]
Brylcreem’s MySpace Campaign Wins Creative Circle
We’re always really happy when anything we’ve been involved in wins recognition and so we were delighted that the Brylcreem Effortless campaign, for which we managed the online activity, won a Creative Circle for Best Multimedia Campaign last night.
The whole campaign was based on a great idea from the guys at WCRS, to find the […]
New BBC Homepage? It’s Rather Excite(ing)
This week saw the launch of the new BBC homepage which has, unsurprisingly, generated a large amount of comment, including this interesting post by Tom about whether this means that BBC.co.uk will end up being a competitor to Google.
Whilst the comments on the new design have been mixed one thing that strikes me is […]
