Last month we ran six training sessions called, “Introduction to Social Media’. During the session, although extremely interactive we didn’t look at the absolute basics such as how to open the accounts. So I’m in the process of creating a series of videos to help people take the first steps. This
Facebook has added a whole host of user controls to provide better privacy to its users. These new changes will match what Google+ are offering through their “Circles” feature. Facebook revealed it would be expanding the sharing option so that users can restrict people from seeing particular posts. This feature
I recently delivered a seminar on Google Web Apps as we have taken the decision to move all our clients to the Google email platform. There are a huge number of benefits by using the services offered by Google and for small businesses with under ten users it is completely free. Even if you
Does your website use a technology called Flash? This technology is quite often used to animate parts of a website or to display video content. I wrote a blog post last week highlighting, over 20million global web users now surf the Web using an iPad. I started to think about
How many people do you think use the Internet globally? It’s around this figure – 2,095,006,005 I have to say I was rather shocked when I saw that number as it’s hard to comprehend just how large it is. Just over 12 months ago Apple launched a product called the iPad. You
Has your business considered video content when looking for ways of promoting your business? If I told you that www.youtube.com was the world’s second biggest search engine after Google would it change your mind? Hang on, www.youtube.com is owned by Google the world’s most influential search engine! I have two
At Carrot Media we have been keeping a close eye on a new EU directive on how cookies are going to effect businesses in the UK. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ISO) led the way this week, and you will notice by visiting their website, they now have a notice at
If you’ve not heard; Google changed the way their search algorithm works last week. This is the technology used by Google to determine in which order a website appear on the Google search engine.
Video blog outlining the benefits of Dropbox in the hope to help small businesses improve their productivity by sharing files. 
On the 1st of March 2011, the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) is taking over responsibility for regulating online marketing. Find out more in this article. 