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Is your website down?

Edward Solomon — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:49:45 +0000

If not now, then at some point soon it will be. You’re probably thinking “My website is quite safe on a server somewhere out there in the Internet” and never give it a second thought. Out of thought, out of mind. Is your website really safe? You have probably thought about running a newer version [...]

5 TOP SOCIAL MEDIA TIPS: #1 Use local social media

Edward Solomon — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:03:44 +0000

Following on from our last post on our presentation Why social media is relevant to you given at the 2012 Speciality and Fine Food Fair, let us look at our 5 Top Social Media Tips beginning with the first, which is to use local social media. As we defined the term social media in Why social media is relevant to [...]

Why social media is relevant to you

Edward Solomon — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:37:46 +0000

Why social media is relevant to you is the title of the presentation we gave at the 2012 Speciality and Fine Food Fair at London Olympia last month. From the content of the presentation, this month we bring you the introduction before we publish subsequently our top five tips for getting started with social media. [...]

PENNInk Productions at the 2012 Speciality & Fine Food Fair

Edward Solomon — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 11:26:41 +0000

Sunday 2 September 2012 saw PENNInk Productions delivering a seminar to an audience of exhibitors and visitors at the Speciality & Fine Food Fair in Kensington Olympia. The topic of our presentation was Why social media is relevant to you! We have a series of blog posts planned on the content of our presentation, sharing with you our top tips [...]

Sparrow for iPhone

Edward Solomon — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:04:22 +0000

The popular e-mail client for Mac OS X, Sparrow, released its iPhone version last month. In addition to its similar appearance, the iOS app for iPhone comes with a few useful features, including swipe control of the entire interface, a smart contact list that sorts your contacts intelligently, as well as some features familiar to [...]

How secure is YOUR website?

Edward Solomon — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 14:08:31 +0000

Last night I observed how my e-mail inbox filled up with over 70 messages generated by the firewall component installed on a client’s content management system (CMS). Each one informed me that a single IP address was attempting to log into the administrator panel in the back end and that the username/password combination had been [...]

Facebook Timeline for Brands

Edward Solomon — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 06:08:25 +0000

Yesterday Facebook announced to brands that the Timeline feature, already deployed for personal profile pages, would be rolled out to business pages within the month. Some of the main changes include a new layout with cover image, highlighting features and the ability to edit and update without navigating to a separate page. Facebook Timeline will [...]

Seven Silly Online Mistakes (and How To Fix Them!)

Edward Solomon — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:09:45 +0000

Have you ever clicked, then cursed? Perhaps you’ve been using “password” as your password, or agreeing to have all your personal details in order to download a cool app. We can all make mistakes, but even the smallest of them can have embarrassing or costly repercussions. Not to worry, we have solutions! 1. Sharing personal data [...]

Orchestra: an amazing to-do manager

Edward Solomon — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:43:04 +0000

The plethora of task management apps doesn’t have many that rise to the top, but Orchestra is definitely a front runner that has beaten many other free and paid apps with its ease of use and collaboration features. It’s available for iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) and as a web application. It even incorporates speech [...]