… According to Fifa, it didn’t…

This was the joke banded around yesterday after the terrible decision of disallowing England’s second goal even though it was a foot over the line. There was uproar for about 20 minutes, until German scored their third and fourth goal to finish England off.

After 90 minutes, when all was said and done, it was the poor performance people we’re talking about. Not the fact that the goal line technology should be upgraded and they should allow the referee to watch replays. (more…)

Unless you’re a Martian then I’m pretty sure you’ve heard about Twitter. Surely, if you’re turned the telly on in the last few months, there would have been some mention of this social networking phenomenon that has taken the world by storm. Even David Cameron uses it, it’s that cool (or not).

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There was a time not long ago when we were telling companies that they needed Facebook fanpages. They told us they were not going to go on facebook because it’s for kids!

Slowly but surely, more and more people have started to understand how Facebook can be an integral part of your marketing. The question we hear now is ‘how do I get more fans onto my fanpage’. (more…)

We announced last week that our next SEO event will be on the 12 October.

We’ve had some great times at the last few events in Wolverhampton, so now we thought we’d take the show on the road and see how we get on in Birmingham. As soon as I sent an email out we had 10 people book over the following days, so it’s looking like this one will be a full house like the rest.

Here’s the link to book: http://www.callowaygreen.com/seo-birmingham-event/

BUT WE HAVE A SURPRISE!!

If you’re a Midlander (or even if you’re not), you’ll no doubt have heard of the BOSTIN t-shirts created by Donato Esposito.

Well, Donato will be doing a guest post on Social Media for us on the 12th!!

Donato is a social media expert and a special adviser to Digital Birmingham, a Birmingham City Council Initiative which ensures the benefits of digital technologies can be available to all in the city

He started Bostin Group as a way of communicating an optimism and positivity for our local area and has include products including T-shirts, a Blog, online games and also an online Comic which is now in print. His main experience was in using his skills of Social Media and Crowdsourcing to develop Bostin Group with MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and now Twitter.

One of his projects has included an online campaign in Facebook to have a Black Country version and has so far amassed a membership of  over 30,000.

So join us and meet Donato on the 12th at SEO Birmingham!!

(UPDATE.. ONLY 9 PLACES LEFT)

Let’s imagine for a second that you read an advert in the Express and Star for a car, you go to see the car and before you know it you’re pounced upon by louts who steal your money, your keys and the coat off your back before kicking you in the legs. What’s the headline going to be?

I’d wager it would be something like “Louts beat up man looking for new car”, or “Attack in Park Lane leaves man in hospital”. I doubt you’d actually expect to see the Express and Star mentioned. But if that advert was on one of these new evil websites then that’s a different matter.

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