Author Archives: Natasha

Creating BandPages

One of the key selling points of social media and the internet has always been ‘you can do so much for free’. While this has never really been true in terms of time required to create content and build relationships, … Continue reading

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Are you ready to be promoted into the league?

Congratulations to local team AFC Wimbledon! After a tense penalty shoot-out, you’ve been promoted to the Football League. You’ve caused great excitement in this living room and far beyond that. In fact, right now, you’re trending on Twitter worldwide. Thousands … Continue reading

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Do Some Good iPhone application review

Before I begin, let me just say that this is a review of an iPhone application, not the concept of micro-volunteering. The idea of using your technology to perform small but necessary tasks to help out not-for-profits has a lot of positives, … Continue reading

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Are you writing the blog posts that people are looking for?

Blog entries are a great way to bring people to your website. They provide fresh content related to your organisation or business – the type of fresh content that search engines love. Other bloggers are also more likely to link … Continue reading

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Fair Tweets for Fair Trade Day

Today, May 14, 2011, is this year’s World Fair Trade Day. The day is an initiative of the World Fair Trade Organisation whose mission is to enable producers to improve their livelihoods and communities through fair trade. A certain favourite ice-cream … Continue reading

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Cake Days: The book vs the app

For Mother’s Day this year, I bought myself the new Hummingbird Bakery recipe book, Cake Days. In the week that followed, I spent whole afternoons drooling over the gorgeous glossy photographs of cakes and cookies, muffins and slices, found within … Continue reading

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Where should you be spending your time on Facebook?

Over the past week, I’ve been working on creating a Facebook landing page for my digital marketing services. Basically, a landing page is the first page that a potential fan of your brand or business sees on Facebook. Rather than … Continue reading

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Apple and Walnut Cupcakes for the Globe

Shakespeare’s Globe on the South Bank has been a huge part of London life for my husband and me. In our first year here, we volunteered as stewards: wearing the maroon tabards and keeping the groundlings standing. Since then, we’ve … Continue reading

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Re-importing photos in Windows 7

I’ve been setting up my new HP laptop this afternoon: installing Office and Norton and iTunes. All was going well, until I decided to import the photos from my camera using Windows 7′s Import Pictures and Videos feature. The first … Continue reading

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HTML Writer: Edit web pages from your iPhone

Have you ever wanted to edit your website when you’re away from your computer? Perhaps you’ve been sitting on the train and seen a sneaky spelling error on one of your pages or you’ve finally decided on a hexadecimal code … Continue reading

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