Internet Psychologist
Tiger Woods has a clear reputation problem at the moment – which will no doubt compound his personal, family issues. At the moment the world is full of rumour, allegation and speculation; none of it is known fact, largely because Tiger Woods appears poorly advised on what to do. He …
Today sees President Obama receiving his Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his initial attempts to make the world we live in a better place. His roots in working in social care make President Obama somewhat different to many previous presidents, who came from business or law. Rather than seeking …
Online retailers are failing to focus on two key issues which are persistent barriers to Internet shoppers. A new study of online buyers has found that taken together these two issues are stopping more than half the people who use the Internet from buying anything online. We may well have …
IFA Life is delighted to announce that ‘Father of Life Planning’ George Kinder will keynote at the Social Media in Financial Services conference in January 2010 and lead a debate on ‘hi touch, hi tech’ financial planning. Widely acknowledged as a key visionary in the financial planning world, George Kinder’s …
Gordon Brown and Ed Balls are today announcing the Green Cross Code for the Internet. The idea is that it will provide children with a means of staying safe online. The code has been drawn up following the Byron review of Internet safety which resulted in the formation of a …
On the breakfast show tomorrow talking about child Internet safety.
Appearing on BBC Radio Newcastle this afternoon talking about online Christmas shopping
‘Online Digital PR’, the one-day workshop in digital PR and social media techniques from The PR Training Centre, is now available in-house for as little as £1,500. And Government grants available through the Train To Gain scheme means companies can get £1,000 in funding for the workshop. According to principal …
As you sit at your computer reading this, tens of thousands of people are shopping online. Indeed, today it is expected that at its peak online shopping will reach a whopping £4,000 per second. Shoppers are likely to be parting with an amazing £350m online today. But why? Why are …
So, Borders has gone into administration in the UK after a dreadful trading period. Apparently they have “cash flow” problems meaning they are potentially unable to meet their financial demands. According to several reports, it’s the Internet’s fault. But this simply is not true. Nine out of ten books bought …
News is, well, new. It’s stuff that’s either an update on information we already know, or it is brand, spanking new. Newspapers are not called “oldspapers” after all…what they give us is (relatively) new material. Online, of course, “new” means “within the last few seconds”; the race to be the …
Many bloggers are unhappy bloggers. They find it difficult to get inspired to write and when they do they are upset by the lack of readers. Then when they look at their website’s statistical data they are even more saddened by the lack of time people spend reading their musings. …
In today’s Scotland on Sunday newspaper talking about the dangers of social networking.
Do you want to sell more from your website? OK, silly question, I know. But one of the difficulties anyone selling stuff online has is that they cannot really control the sales environment. People tend to buy more when they are comfortable. But your sales environment might be someone’s office, …
The study presented by Entensys (www.entensys.com) was completed in April-June, 2009. The results are based on the analysis of websites visited by 41,200 employees in 1,600 enterprises. In the end of 2008, Entensys released a new version of UserGate Proxy & Firewall that included a content filtering tool. This feature …