It’s August and, albeit reluctantly, we are busying preparing for Fall. What better time than now to review your website’s usability? Todd Sieling of Corvus Consulting recently presented at the SFU Summer Publishing Workshops on usability and outlined his...
Why you need Social Media AND Search. With tight budgets, companies are trying to make decisions about where and how to allocate resources. The much-lauded options for social media are ever present in the press, which pushes many to shuffle resources from search...
Registration for BookCamp 2010 opened last week and we’re getting excited for a full day of book and technology-related discussions. BookCamp Vancouver is a chance to bring the publishing and technology community together to discuss the future of books and...
Marketers know that the ability to measure success online is far more accurate than measurements offline. Tracking, analyzing and responding to the data is your key to success. Begin by defining the key performance indicators, or KPIs, for your campaigns. With your...
One of our clients, BC Book Prizes, is holding their Summer 2010 Online Auction. They have some amazing prize packages that are open to bidding and the proceeds go to supporting the achievements of British Columbian writers and publishers. Prizes Include: The...
If you are unfamiliar with Hootsuite, it’s a twitter platform (based out of Vancouver) that lets you manage multiple twitter accounts, schedule your tweets, sync twitter accounts with your team, and track your twitter stats - like how many users are clicking on...
A lot has been happening on the web these past few weeks so we thought it’d be useful to do a roundup of some of the must-read articles that we’ve come across that you may have missed. Do you have other interesting articles to add to this list? 5 Social...
Back in April we talked about How to Understand a Google Analytics Report and since then we’ve been providing a lot of Google Analytics tips. Since it’s handy to have all of our tips in one place, here is a roundup of our Google Analytics guidelines and...
Dec 15, 2011 Update: Here’s how to filter out internal traffic in the new Google Analytics. Nothing skews your website analytics more than including your internal traffic. Employees’ behaviours on the site are different than visitors’ behaviours...
Today we are testing the localization settings for our website and server. There appears to be a disconnect between when we think posts are going to go live and when they actually go live. Rather annoying. So now we’re going to test our theories. Some days you...