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Re: Why Heineken Understands the Importance of Employee Culture

Quotes love life — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:07:34 -0000

Fab post. Most people would not think twice before taking up a job with such a company.

Re: Why Heineken Understands the Importance of Employee Culture

Danny Brown — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:31:14 -0000

Dammit! Of course it is - why the heck did I think they were German?? Gah, clearly I need to stop drinking while blogging. :)

Re: Why Heineken Understands the Importance of Employee Culture

musicto — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:06:47 -0000

That was a fabulous commercial - I'm going to go out and drink Heineken tonight - just one thing though - I think you'll find that Heineken is Dutch! ;-p

Re: 7 Ways to Market Your Business on Facebook – Free Ebook

Danny Brown — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:47:40 -0000

Hi Greg,

Sorry about that - this post was from two years ago and the Facebook page set-up has changed. You can grab the ebook here:

http://dannybrown.me/wp-con...

Although some of the features may be out of date now - cheers!

Re: Why I’m Loving BlogOnCloud9

Danny Brown — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:20:28 -0000

Still using them, mate. Service continues to be second-to-none and the ease in deleting domains, adding new, setting up sites, etc, even easier with their new BlogDroid solution:

http://www.blogdroid.com/

Re: Influence Marketing: A Business Book for the Next Wave of Influence

Jubert Sagun — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 03:08:58 -0000

Excellent piece… Very useful. I had a great time reading your piece… Thanks for sharing….
<a href="www.automatedsocialmedia.com"> treb </a>.

Re: Influence Marketing: A Business Book for the Next Wave of Influence

Jubert Sagun — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 03:08:58 -0000

Excellent piece… Very useful. I had a great time reading your piece… Thanks for sharing….
<a href="www.automatedsocialmedia.com"> treb </a>.

Re: Why I’m Loving BlogOnCloud9

Ari Herzog — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 01:04:56 -0000

Fast forward three years and are you still using them or had you since switched elsewhere?

Reason I ask is I purchased a Hostgator account this week -- and they're in the process of migrating everything.

Re: 7 Ways to Market Your Business on Facebook – Free Ebook

Greg — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:19:45 -0000

Ummm never was to good at magic could not download ebook

Re: Influence Marketing: A Business Book for the Next Wave of Influence

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Re: The Sunday Share – Enabling Your Google Authorship Markup

Bluemann — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:10:23 -0000

I have verified several other options....

Re: Influence Marketing: A Business Book for the Next Wave of Influence

Keith Davis — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:17:59 -0000

Influence Marketing: A Business Book for the Next Wave of Influence - looking good from Danny Brown.

Re: The Sunday Share – Enabling Your Google Authorship Markup

Danny Brown — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:14:53 -0000

Awesome, great to hear, Rachel, and glad Joanna&#039s presentation helped!

Re: The Sunday Share – Enabling Your Google Authorship Markup

Rachel Lora Simmons — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:49:29 -0000

This was very useful, Danny! I had signed up for authorship but had not yet employed the coding in posts. We&#039re developing our company blog at Brightergy and I want to make sure to include Google Authorship for all of our contributors. Thanks again!

Re: Influence Marketing: A Business Book for the Next Wave of Influence

Danny Brown — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:31:19 -0000

Completely agree. Celebrity endorsements carry that risk (then again, don't all endorsements of some kind carry risk?), which is why the influence market has found such popularity. The problem is, many early movers in the space mostly measure amplification and popularity, which is completely different from influence.

Our model strips that down and "rebuilds" it, if you like, back to where true influence emanates from.

Cheers!

Re: Influence Marketing: A Business Book for the Next Wave of Influence

themobilebillboardcompany — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:20:39 -0000

I think brands need to be careful on who they pick as their "influencer", in particular i note the case of the English footballer Rio ferdinand who got into some hot water and trouble with the advertising standards authority last year for endorsing the Snickers chocolate bar on his twitter. Fairly frowned apon in the UK but more common, i understand,in the US for celebrities to push brands online.

So i suppose brands need to be aware of colloquialisms of their target markets.

John
http://www.themobilebillboa...

Re: Why You Need a Responsive Blog Design Instead of a Mobile-Friendly One

Danny Brown — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:35:54 -0000

Hey there Todd,

Thanks for such a thoughtful comment, and agreed, the overhead is something that needs to be taken into consideration (although with pre-built responsive designs out on the market, it can still be inexpensive depending on budget).

I'm not taking away from what you guys do (besides, I don't have the dev smarts that you do!). This post is from personal use and experience.

With regards the WPTouch vs. Responsive CTA, it depends on the framework. The one I use here keeps my header ad above the fold, as well as my CTA (the blurb about strategies and insights) - there's no need to scroll down. If I wanted to change the blurb for a more visual CTA, I could. However, I wouldn't see that with WPTouch.

There are definitely pros and cons to each side, which I tried to cover here, but again from personal experience. At the end of the day, it comes down to what's best for each site (and I completely agree you don't need to transfer the whole browser site to a mobile one).

Cheers, sir!

Re: Why You Need a Responsive Blog Design Instead of a Mobile-Friendly One

Todd O — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:59:28 -0000

Yep, a LOT of discussion about responsive design but not a lot of talk about the kind of overhead (both development time and processing time) that responsive design results in.

Keeping in mind that our company makes its living by designing and building websites - both traditional and mobile - for our respective clients using the Wordpress CMS, we have chosen to use WP Touch Pro along with Genesis as our go to development tools of choice.

Even though Genesis now provides child themes that are supposedly "responsive", we've found them to be extremely lacking in terms of how they are visually represented across various browsers. The testing and resulting development fixes that are required are immense and definitely eat into our bottom line on a project by project basis.

It's funny that you mention that WP Touch eliminates sidebars and therefore potentially important CTA's but a responsive design on a mobile device is essentially a one column design...which means that you need to keep that in mind in terms of priority. What good is a responsive design if your CTA's are pushed to the bottom?!!
WP Touch is a tool that enables the designer to specifically design for mobile...thinking that everything that is on a traditional site should go on a mobile site is an oversight...pun intended. Also keep in mind that WP TOuch is a server side solution meaning that it has the ability to perform better than an "all-in-one" responsive design.

Don't get me wrong, I'm believer that a design of a website should morph to the size of the screen of the device without the user having to do sideways scrolls, pinching and the like....I'm just not sold on the whole responsive design movement from a pure development perspective.

At our company, we live and breath design AND development every day and we are tasked with providing our clients with great design while developing code in a cost efficient manner.
I just don't think that the responsive "design" movement has considered the impact, from a development perspective, very seriously.

Todd O.
http://www.originalginger.com

Re: The Sunday Share – Enabling Your Google Authorship Markup

Danny Brown — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:43:45 -0000

Particularly if, as rumours suggest, Wayne, Google enters the influence measurement race with their own take on the kind of content that&#039s driving action. An interesting few months ahead!

Re: The Sunday Share – Enabling Your Google Authorship Markup

Wayne Liew — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 14:20:50 -0000

Thank you for sharing this Slideshare presentation, Danny. Apart from the increase in CTR, many are speculating that Author Rank is imminent and will significantly change the quality of search results. This is going to benefit authors who are consistently publishing great and useful content across a number of websites, making Google Authorship Markup crucial for online content producers.

Re: The Sunday Share – Enabling Your Google Authorship Markup

Danny Brown — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:01:12 -0000

Hi Ana,

What software are you using to run your blog/site? If it&#039s WordPress, have a look at the reply I gave to Kaarina, that should work for you too?

Re: The Sunday Share – Enabling Your Google Authorship Markup

Danny Brown — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:00:05 -0000

For sure, Joanna, happy to share and great little resource!

Re: The Sunday Share – Enabling Your Google Authorship Markup

Joanna Vaiou — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:45:49 -0000

Thank you for sharing Danny. I am really grateful to have found your blog!

Re: The Sunday Share – Enabling Your Google Authorship Markup

Ana Paulina — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:17:06 -0000

I just tried it this way but I&#039m still having an issue. Even though I have verified several other options.

Re: The Sunday Share – Enabling Your Google Authorship Markup

Kaarina Dillabough — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 18:48:41 -0000

Thanks so much: this is far more comprehensive than the initial directions given elsewhere about signing up for authorship (which I followed, obviously to no avail). I will now attempt lift-off...much appreciated.