CEO of Google UK talk at MediaCityUK
Earlier this week, I was lucky enough to escape my desk and venture over to MediaCityUK to listen to a talk by one of the most influential people in the digital world — Matt Brittin. Matt joined Google in 2007 … Continue reading
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Carbon Creative Showcase Designer’s Christmas Cards for Charity
December 15, 2011Salford-based design and digital agency Carbon Creative has launched a range of free designer Christmas cards that are also helping to raise money for a number of charities including Cash for Kids, Mind and Shelter. The nine cards have been … Continue reading
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MC Hammer To Launch Search Engine: WireDoo
October 31, 2011Stanley K. Burrell is a web entrepreneur who is working on launching a search engine, WireDoo, that will improve user experience through relationship-driven searches. Stanley K. Burrell is also better known to millions of fans across the world as MC Hammer, … Continue reading
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The future: the real truth about leadership, growth and innovation
October 13, 2011How certain is the future? How much can we plan and strategize: is there room to shape it?. At Sage World (@sageworld) in Manchester, speaker Max McKeown (@MaxMckeown) challenged us to think about the future Are we causal thinkers – what happens … Continue reading
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Websites don’t have content: they are content
October 11, 2011All organisations are now engaged in at least two businesses: one is doing what they were set up to do and the other is publishing content about what they do. In the past, it was easy enough to outsource this … Continue reading
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Information and Technical Architecture
September 28, 2011When building a website, there is an emphasis on optimising the site for search engines due to ever-increasing competition. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is often thought of as a combination of link building, adding meta data and keyword rich content. … Continue reading
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Designersaurus
August 23, 2011Nolan has been practising his cake making skills in preparation for Izzys first birthday in September so what better guinea pig than Paul M, our in-house cake monster! To celebrate his birthday this week Nolan made Paul his very own … Continue reading
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Nine ways to improve your speaking and writing skills
Once a month or so, I attend a Speakeasy Group that I also help to organise. Speakeasy runs Groups that meet regularly and cultivate speaking, storytelling, communication and leadership skills. The Groups meet in posh corporate meeting rooms sponsored by … Continue reading
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Infinite gets a new loop…
August 18, 2011We love all things design here at Carbon, so when two of our heros come together we couldn’t resist blogging about it!! Its long been known Apple has been working with Foster + Associates as architects of the new Apple … Continue reading
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Why Carbon Creative?
August 9, 2011There are lots of Design agencies in Manchester so why choose Carbon Creative. Continue reading
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Why the f**k should I bother with sustainability?
August 3, 2011Let me give you two vital reasons for worrying about sustainability…now. First, sustainability is increasingly important because economic costs attributed to environmental and social factors that have, historically, been ignored are increasingly being taken into account by big business, the … Continue reading
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Storytelling: the base of an inbound marketing content strategy
August 2, 2011Practising your message through public speaking at Speakeasy Groups leads to rapid improvement in your core business ‘story. and inbound marketing Continue reading
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Search Engine Land’s SEO periodic table
July 6, 2011SEO — search engine optimisation — is one of the most important digital marketing tactics available to organisations but it’s often considered a dark art. An interesting diagrammatic representation of some of the factors was created by Search Engine Land’s … Continue reading
