http://blog.rakemark.com Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:27:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blog.rakemark.com/2011/10/facebook-executive-thinks-search-must-go-social/ http://blog.rakemark.com/2011/10/facebook-executive-thinks-search-must-go-social/#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2011 02:05:04 +0000 Sarah Brassington http://blog.rakemark.com/?p=1402 #leftcontainerBox { float:left; position: fixed; top: 60%; left: 70px; } #leftcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; clear:both; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; padding-bottom:2px; } #bottomcontainerBox { height: 30px; width:50%; padding-top:1px; } #bottomcontainerBox .buttons { float:left; height: 30px; margin:4px 4px 4px 4px; }

A top Facebook Executive, Ethan Beard, has said that web search must go social and that Google and other search engines are failing to provide the results that users want, according an interview given to The Telegraph. Ethan Beard argues that search needs to go social to create an improved product discovery mechanism. He claims [...]

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Facebook have announced (in a panel in your personal Facebook profile) that the option to use the Reviews and Discussion app within the Facebook system is to be removed at the end of the Month (31/10/2011) According to a statement on the official Facebook help section, the best way to encourage interaction with you friends [...]

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Twitter, the Social Media Giants, have this week launched a brand new way for you to increase your own following with a new ‘Follow’ button for websites. If you’re logged into Twitter and you click the new button then you will automatically add the Twitter account to your follow list. Try It ! Follow @rakemark [...]

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When I say new look, what I actually mean is ‘Twitters Newest Look’. The web designers at Twitter are kept busy with their fair share of updates, improvements and changes throughout their social media website www.twtter.com. In amongst the most recent set of changes includes a change in the ‘Twitter Blue’, from bright & light [...]

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Building a networking community is a relatively straight forward, functional thing to do and with Social and Media Web coming into their own, if you haven’t already you should really get in the game if you don’t want to miss out on its possibilities. So here are some very simple rules for you to apply [...]

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The web and internet trends are always on the move and it is a continuous battle to keep up with what to do, what not to do and who’s doing what! According to comscore.com we are seeing significant changes in the use of Social Media Marketing (Blogs, Facebook Business, LinkedIn etc) at a rate that [...]

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We are fast approaching the Christmas season and as a business you will already be well aware of the cost associated with designing, printing and distributing say 500+ Christmas cards to your clients is not one to be dismissed. A recent study carried out by LinkShare, found that almost half of Marketers’ will be using one [...]

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Whilst contributing to a couple of discussions and answering a few questions on my usual forum favourites over the last few days I came across a small business owner who wanted some help with a business to business leaflet campaign. I thought the feedback was interesting and decided to spin it into an article on [...]

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A report from the National IT User Centre has predicted that all the “meaningless ramblings” and status updates of social media is potentially helping up and coming entrepreneurs of the future. While some have a facebook friend list of maybe a couple of hundred people, we wouldn’t consider all of them friends (in the real [...]

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As a website design company we are often asked to create bespoke images for our client’s websites, Print Design Projects and Marketing Material. Some stuff is standard and really straight forward to do but some is a little funky both to look at and to produce. We thought that it might be useful if we [...]

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