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THANK YOU

THANK YOU

Thank you to everyone who came to to the event a couple of weeks ago- Kids, adults, and dogs! It was good to see some old and new faces. Although we didn't manage to reach our target of £500, we managed to beat lasts years total and collected £380...

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World’s Biggest Coffee Morning

World’s Biggest Coffee Morning

Join Notting Hill Biz on Friday 30th September for the World's Biggest Coffee Morning, where we will be raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support. Last year we raised £300 and hope to beat that by raising £500 this year! We would like to invite...

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Dogs go tweet tweet

So, last week tweets from space - this week, tweets from dogs. Is the world going completely crazy? Mattel, the well-known toy company, has brought out Puppy Tweets. It's basically a collar which is triggered by certain doggy events - barking, say,...

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Your Move app

We always think it's worth drawing attention to businesses who are using internet technologies and online platforms in remarkable ways. By checking them out, you can only learn - and perhaps even build on their ideas. Recently, I visited Your Move...

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Heard the buzz?

As you may have heard, there's a new social media platform in town - and it comes from Google. As a business owner, you may be wondering whether it's yet another place where you have to keep up a presence - like Facebook, Twitter, and your blog...

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How much do you love Google?

How much do you love Google? Enough to display your affection across your chest? Google teamed up with some young fashion designers, asking them to create a piece that somehow reflected the Google ethos. This t-shirt, showing the iconic Google Maps...

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Tweets in space

Proof, if it were needed, that Twitter really has reached every part of the known universe, comes with the news that Japanese aeronautical engineer Soichi Noguchi is tweeting from the International Space Station as it orbits. Follow his Twitter...

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Facebook on the go

Back in September, we wrote about the surge in usage of the mobile web. This month, a startling survey from GSMA reveals that 25% of the UK population went online via mobile during last December. Astonishingly, almost half the time online was spent...

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Small businesses need memorable URLs

It's not exactly rocket science, but we've seen research quoted in multiple places this week revealing that small businesses can suffer from poorly-chosen web addresses or URLs. That's something which the man in the street could probably have told...

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Labour or Tory, the future’s online

"In the 19th century, we built the railways. In the 20th century, we built the motorways. In the 21st century let's build the superfast broadband network that will create hundreds of thousands of jobs for Britain." Stirring words from the Shadow...

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Google Moderator

Charities and small businesses might be interested to hear about the little-known (by us, anyway!) Google Moderator. This simple tool allows you to canvass your users on any issue: the Conservative Party, for example, are currently using it on...

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Google’s search-based keyword tool

One of the skills a good online marketer needs is the ability to intuit what folks are searching for when they want your product. The trouble is, while you can easily see which search terms people used to get to your site, you'll never find out...

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Local trending topics on Twitter

Regular users of Twitter will already be familiar with the "trending topics" function, which shows which words and phrases are being most tweeted about at any given time. From today, Twitter has rolled out the option to view more 'local' trending...

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Search engines – through your TV

Now, some of us have only just got used to the whole concept of internet via mobile phones - now we also have to get to grips with the increasing access through internet-enabled TVs and games consoles, such as the Wii, which can turn your TV screen...

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