Category: Trends

  • Website backups: 4 ways to protect your investment

    Your website is the culmination of many years hard work and toil. You’ve invested time and money in building and promoting your site. And the site is your store front on the internet. But imagine if, overnight or almost instantaneously,…

  • Realities of the digital landscape illustrated in Eurocom survey

    Realities of the digital landscape illustrated in Eurocom survey

    One of the startling metrics in a global survey on how technology businesses use social media is one that shows one in five technology industry executives  – that’s 20 percent of those surveyed – saying that a job candidate’s social…

  • The Economist is asking how readers like to read the publication

    I’m a subscriber and +The Economist is the only publication where I get the print version each week and also read it digitally: online on the website, via the Android app on any of my mobile devices, and listening to…

  • A death is announced: the printed Encyclopaedia Britannica

    A death is announced: the printed Encyclopaedia Britannica

    A milestone has been reached in the evolution of factual reference information with news that probably the most famous of all general reference works in the English language, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, will stop making the printed encyclopedia after 244 years…

  • Twitter hashtags: spam magnets

    One of the most useful engagement tools for a conference is a Twitter hashtag. This little device, where a word is connected to the hash symbol (#) – known as a pound sign in the US – is a useful…