Anyone looking at the BBC website today cannot fail to see the news story ‘Government to axe hundreds of ‘unnecessary’ websites‘. It refers to the fact that the Government are going to review all of their 820 existing websites and retire a portion of them in a bid to cut costs and save £100m.

When I was reading through the article a few figures jumped out at me (not least the £4m cost to build the UK Trade and Investment website!) If you look through the article and do the sums you’ll see that in 2009 – 2010: Read more…

Industry News, Web Design

In the beginning, God created MySpace, then Rupert Murdoch bought it in 2005 and then it became old news! (see what I did there?). The purchase of Bebo by AOL in 2008 perhaps marked a similar fate for the once enthusiastic puppy of the social networking world, now it’s an old dog with no new tricks and is at the risk of falling out of favour and being replaced with a new breed. Read more…

Branding, Industry News

Last September a group of Twitter users got together in 130 cities for a Twestival. In the process they raised over $450k for 135 charities (£3675 from Glasgow) – Not bad for a night of partying and putting faces to Twitter avatars!

This March (the 25th to be precise) sees another Twestival in Glasgow (GTwestival). This year we will be raising money for Concern Worldwide who provide access to education for some of the world’s poorest children. So, save the date and get ready to buy your ticket very, very shortly!

Read more and learn how you can help

Industry News Gtwestival, twitter

On Thursday 3rd September 2009 (let’s refer to it as ‘yesterday’), PoLR Ltd made it to the final of the PSYBT Regional Business Award (Glasgow region) and finished as very respectable Runners Up! Read more…

Business Development, Industry News, Team News

I started to write this article a while ago and promptly forgot about it so apologies for the slightly out of date start…

I was reading in the Metro the other day how Bear Scotland are planning on using Twitter to send motorists traffic status Tweets during the M8 upgrade. First of all I thought Cool, secondly I thought But wait, how do you get them? Read more…

Industry News social media

There was much interest last month in a report written by a 15 year old boy who was on a work placement with Morgan Stanley in which he claimed that teens do not use twitter. This statement was the catalyst to the start of a debate about who does use twitter? Many people may have taken it for granted that it must have been teens that were using it as Twitter was in the social media group an area which is largely dominated by young people online. Read more…

Industry News social media