It was reported this afternoon that the union Unite is planning to use Google AdWords as part of its campaign to highlight what it believes are poor employment practices on the part of Marks & Spencer. As The Guardian pointed out however (& as I discovered when I checked myself) the ads don’t […]
- 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.
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SES London 2008 Summary
I’ve spent the last few days at Search Engine Strategies London at the Business Design Centre. In line with my magic penny theory, I was there as an unofficial correspondent for SEOmoz and you can see my thoughts on the various sessions I attended there.
Day 1 was a long one and so took two posts, […]
Friday Wrap: Stuff We Liked This Week
It’s been a busy week and to wrap it all up we thought that we would mention a few things that caught our attention.
Firstly we should probably mention the huge amount of attention Richard’s post about last weekend’s anti-Scientology rally received. Despite being little more than some really interesting photos it received as much traffic […]
Is There A Company That Yahoo! Isn’t Merging With?
First Microsoft approached Yahoo! about a merger/take-over. Then Google gave the guys at Yahoo! a call to see if maybe they could hook up.
And whilst Information Week thought that Nokia would be the perfect partner for Yahoo! lots of other people think that they should consider getting together with AOL. But of course that was […]
Midas Losing Its Touch?
I read in one of the free London evening papers yesterday that Virgin Radio DJs JK & Joel are hoping to buy The Midas Touch pub in Golden Square. Apparently it risks going out of business and the pair are asking their fans to donate money to allow them to buy it. Why is this […]
MSN Buying Yahoo?
This isn’t really post, just a note as this news could have a potentially huge impact on the whole internet economy.
Microsoft has made a bid to buy Yahoo!, valuing Yahoo! at $45 billion (which makes a $15 billion valuation for Facebook look even more far-fetched). It may well be that this is coming off of […]
If The Times Are Link Spamming, They’re Missing The Point
The Guardian has reported an investigation which suggests that an employee of Sitelynx, a search marketing firm working for Time Online, has been engaging in some good old fashioned link spamming.
It suggests that Piotr Wyspianski has been ruthlessly promoting content from Times Online on sites such as social search engine Mahalo (which I’ve written about […]
Google Street In Golden Square
Whilst standing outside the office a moment ago (OK, I was having a cigarette), I saw the rather strange car that you can see in the image above driving round & round Golden Square. Reports last year suggested that the cars were being used by Google to bring it’s Street View to the UK (hopefully […]
Hotels & Airlines: All Hostages To Online Reputations
I met up for a drink last night with a cousin of mine who was over from Dublin on business. During the course of the evening, as we caught up on what we’d both been doing for the past 5 years, I asked here where she was staying. She replied that she was booked into […]
The Problem With Facebook Ads? Most Of Them Are Rubbish
There was an excellent article in yesterday’s Media Guardian bemoaning the lack of creativity in the Christmas advertising by the main British retailers. Naresh Ramchandani noted that most of these companies had seen disappointing sales over the festive period (although it’s likely that the general economic uncertainty played a part in that) and compared this […]
