Year: 2012

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Facebook Groups & Pages – What’s the Difference?

Chris O'Brien October 01, 2012 0 Comments
Facebook provides two methods of sharing your content with people, Facebook Groups and Facebook Business Pages.  Groups are designed primarily with public interaction in mind, and Pages with promotion as their primary function. Facebook Groups Overview of Facebook Groups as a Business Tool Facebook Groups have visibility controls, set by the group owner, to set who can see (and use) your group,...
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Facebook Flushes the Fakes, Pages Lose Likes

Chris O'Brien September 27, 2012 0 Comments
Facebook have (finally) started to take action on removing fake accounts and associated fake “likes”, reports TechCrunch. This is the tidy-up, announced at the end of August, is a direct response to the sale of “likes”, in violation of Facebook’s T&C’s. Facebook estimate that this will result in no more than a 1% drop in likes for pages and it’s expected to reduce the number...
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O’Brien Media welcome Matter of Taste as a client

Chris O'Brien September 21, 2012 0 Comments
We're pleased to welcome Matter of Taste, a Chippenham based catering specialist run by professional chef Michael Collom, as a client.  O'Brien Media provides website content management services, as well as website hosting for Matter of Taste. Michael's culinary background is mainly working in Michelin starred country house hotels. My overseas experience included working in Jamaica & The...
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Share your views on social media use in business

Chris O'Brien September 04, 2012 0 Comments
Do you use social media to promote your business? How about helping customers with sales or support questions via twitter or facebook? Customer communication has changed dramatically over the past few years, with big names such as Vodafone and Virgin Media taking to twitter to help customers (with some excellent results that I can personally vouch for!) I'd love to get your views on how social...
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New Website for The Gulshan Brasserie

Chris O'Brien August 22, 2012 0 Comments
O'Brien Media were also asked to design a new website for The Gulshan Brasserie, a business operated by the same team that own the Lalbagh Indian Cusiene. We kept the same overall layout the same for the two restaurants with changes being made to the colour schemes and photography (and of course the menus and content). Take a look at the new website at www.gulshanbrasserie.co.uk
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New Website for the Red Lion Inn at Axford

Chris O'Brien August 21, 2012 0 Comments
The Red Lion Inn is a 16th century inn and restaurant near Marlborough in a stunning setting next to the River Kennet. The existing website for the Red Lion had been in place for a few years and was starting to look dated, we were asked to create a new website with a clean and modern feel that would incorporate new photography and updated content to help with SEO. A new online advertising...
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QR Codes – Conversations with a Taxi Driver

Chris O'Brien August 20, 2012 0 Comments
Sometimes inspiration comes from unexpected sources, and this time that source was a taxi driver. I'd been thinking about writing a blog post about QR Codes (those little black and white square barcodes that seem to be popping up everywhere recently) and after chatting for 10 minutes with a taxi driver last night on my way home I got an "outside view" of how QR codes are...
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