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I’ve mentioned the growth of social media marketing in this blog before, but the fact that I’ve read a lot recently about how more and more businesses are using Facebook to promote themselves means it warrants some further discussion.

In my experience, Twitter and LinkedIn have been the first points of contact for businesses in the world of social media. They’ve led the march so to speak. Facebook has been able to accommodate it for quite some time, but all the same it has remained in the shadow of Twitter and LinkedIn.

Well, until now that is. Thanks to a …

So, England are back to winning ways after an unconvincing defeat of Hungary. I have to say that seeing England again immediately brought back memories of the routing by Germany and the pain of that disallowed goal (I still believe that the game would have been different).

Other sports, such as tennis and cricket, use video technology, so it seems time that football, or specifically FIFA, does the same. Such technology is provided by a number of companies, including, reassuringly, Swiss watchmaker Longines. This rather tenuously brings me to Max Watches.

Max Watches is one of the leading wholesalers of …

Web design and development is our speciality, but we also offer a wide range of complementary services. However, finding the space and time to explain what the likes of web hosting, digital marketing, Google AdWords and social media optimisation are isn’t always easy.

So, that’s why I’ve created the Chichester Design What We Do series. Using our blog, I’m going to describe these services in a bit more detail so that you will be able to better understand how they can benefit your business. First up is social media optimisation.

Social media is no longer merely the preserve …

So, it’s here: Microsoft’s Web-based Office programme, aka Office Web Apps, launched this month as part of the brand new Microsoft Office 2010.

Here at the Chichester Design office, we’ve been fed news, views, limited trials and all sorts for what seems like an eternity, so its arrival hasn’t been of the rabbit-out-of-a-magician’s-hat variety, but it’s still really interesting to finally see it in the flesh, so to speak.

And its arrival is important for the company, make no mistake about it. Office Web Apps is a response to Google Docs, a free online word processing and spreadsheets …

Google Buzz is the latest thing from Cyberspace those whiz kids at Google. Some might argue that it’s Google’s response to not being able to buy Twitter or Facebook off of their crafty innovators and other might argue that it’s just the next step in social networking. I’m going to have a play with it as I write this and see what I think…

What is Google Buzz?

Google Buzz is a social networking platform where you can share updates, photos, videos and start conversations about the things that interest you most. It’s built into Gmail so there’s no fiddling …