mademelook - digital communications consultancy - Hereford, Monmouth, Ross on Wye, Newport, Gloucester

Richard Bacon on Radio 5 live has a weekly feature called the "moan in", where you can vent your spleen in a light hearted manner about things in modern life that get your goat.

I sent an email about one of my pet hates... instant messenger etiquette.

5/10! pah

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I wanted to make a simple effective video to send out to the education market about a waterproof and shockproof digital camera that's perfect for education settings.

Video production can be created relatively painlessly these days and with a trusty Flip camera in hand and the fruit of my loins we spent a fun afternoon making some video content...

Here's a site I created for a local school. The effect of having the blog on the front page has really driven web traffic to the site and communication between school and community has been significantly improved.

Originally the site had a static home page and while the school community showed initial interest as there was nothing obviosuly new to see the people coming back soon dropped off. A quick move of the home page and the school committing to adding news a few times a day and visitors numbers are significantly up with lots of repeat visits.

The next step we are working on is to reduce the amount of printed paper being sent home to parents and utilise the website and email notifications. 

Pleased to say that I have launched a new site for a very talented singer songwriter, Sam Batt, from Brighton. Sam has recorded two albums and is picking up loads of gigs around the country.

You can visit Sam's site at www.sambatt.com

This project comprised of bringing lots of different social media into one pot - an official site for Sam. Sites like Myspace, Revernation and Facebook make life relatively easy to stream content all into one place. The effect is a compact site to act as an easy to point place for Sam that also helps with her click throughs to the rating elements on the social media sites.

Drawbacks for something like this is a lot of the "embedded widgets" are Flash based and so viewing on iPad will leave a few blank spaces.