Engage Web August 2018 - Engage Web

My experience of the internet in Denmark

Posted on August 31, 2018

Earlier this month, I spent a week on holiday in Copenhagen, where I took in such awesome attractions as Tivoli Gardens, Roskilde Cathedral, Copenhagen Zoo and the Gladsaxe Stadium – home of Danish third-tier football club Akademisk Boldklub. Aside from all this though, being a cyber-nerd, I was keen to see how well the internet worked on what was my (more…)

Posted by John Murray

Facebook launches video service worldwide

Posted on August 30, 2018

Social networking titan Facebook has recently started to roll out its video streaming service, Watch, just over a year after it was originally launched in the USA.

Facebook users will (more…)

Posted by Alan Littler

Does Google lean to the left?

Posted on August 29, 2018

Yesterday saw US President Donald Trump in typically quarrelsome form on Twitter, and this time it was Google on the receiving end of his diatribes.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1034456281120206848

As is usually the case with Trump, his grammar is all over the place and he is capitalising certain words for emphasis, giving the impression that he is shouting and fuming. He also gives no (more…)

Posted by John Murray

Why you should never use acronyms or initialisms in business

Posted on August 28, 2018

A few weeks ago I gave a talk at a business networking event on why you shouldn’t use acronyms or initialisms within business. The video of the talk is below, if you’d like to watch it, but the essence of the talk was that just because you know what something means, it doesn’t mean that the person you’re (more…)

Posted by Darren Jamieson

Google will now bring you just the good news

Posted on August 24, 2018

Are you ground down by the endless cycle of doom and gloom in the news? The litany of Brexit handbag fights, Trump brain-farts, KGB cyber warfare and environmental catastrophes? Google has just the ticket: the company has just announced that it’s putting a new Google Assistant feature through its paces, which is designed to deliver (more…)

Posted by Mark Glenning

Sharable Content Tip: Make your content appeal to more than one audience

Posted on August 23, 2018

One of the most challenging things about online marketing, and something we love at Engage Web, is producing content that gets shared. No matter how good your content, no matter how well written or how much you think it hits the sweet spot for your audience, if it doesn’t get shared it’s difficult to gain any (more…)

Posted by Darren Jamieson

Barnsley FC reaches out to depressed fan

Posted on August 22, 2018

League One football team Barnsley FC was well aware of the Twitter antics of Chris Ryder, one of its biggest fans. So when Ryder’s feed took a worrying turn, the team reached out to the depressed supporter.

Ryder, who has been a Barnsley fan for his entire life, suffers with depression, and openly talks about his illness through (more…)

Posted by Mark Glenning

The biggest mistake made when getting a new website

Posted on August 21, 2018

As someone who has been designing and building websites for over 20 years, I have been involved in numerous projects where an existing website had to be redesigned and rebuilt into a new one. What may seem like a simple concept (a company having a new website), there are actually several key pitfalls that need to be avoided as they can (more…)

Posted by Darren Jamieson

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