March 12, 2008 at 5:05 pm · Filed under Digital/New Media
LinkedNW, a LinkedIn group for North West online professionals has been launched by Peter Young (Head of Online Marketing), and Will Graham (Online Marketing Manager) to encourage greater networking between people working within digital in the North West of England.
LinkedIn (according to its website) is an online network of more than 20 million experienced professionals from around the world, representing 150 industries.
If you are interested in joining LinkedNW, please go to http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/50804/7F1E1E370DBB
May 25, 2007 at 4:27 pm · Filed under Public Relations, Digital/New Media
This week has seen the launch of a new Connectpoint produced website - www.poppickers.com
A joint effort between the PR and Interactive teams, the new Payne’s Poppets campaign site has been created to support promotional activity over the summer months of 2007.
Paynes Poppets (”the deliciously noisy chocs”) are searching for a national Karaoke star. A series of roadshows are being held all over the country, with the best six singers from each of the ten heats being featured on the website.
Visitors to the site can then view streamed video clips of each contestant and rate their performance accordingly. Each Heat winner will be entered into the national final, giving them the chance to win a cool £1000!
And even those voting can get in on the action, by getting the chance to win a year’s supply of Poppets!
Budding Beyonces and Will youngs who couldn’t attend the roadshows are also given the opportunity of entering the competition via Poppets’ new YouTube group. They can upload their Karaoke clips onto the site, where people can comment and discuss the performances.
So make sure you give the site a weekly visit over the coming months to see how talented or otherwise the Poppets Karaoke stars are(n’t).
May 24, 2007 at 5:38 pm · Filed under Design, Digital/New Media
Seeing as everyone seems to be a bit shy I’ll create our first proper blog entry.
Tonight the Interactive team will be donning their best suits and frocks and attending The Big Chip Awards - The digital industry awards for the North West.
Our website for Britannia living has been nominated in the “Best Commercial Website” category.
We are shortlisted alongside:
The event is also being streamed through Second Life, which you can visit here
We’ll post again to tell you how it went.
September 5, 2006 at 4:24 pm · Filed under Design, Advertising, Public Relations, Digital/New Media, Search Marketing
Welcome to the Connectpoint WordPress blog.
This is our first post.
We (the interactive team) have setup and designed this blog template based on the Wordpress blogging engine. It allows you to Login under various usernames (which you will be setup) and enter blog posts/entries.
We intend to categorise posts under the main business areas that we operate in, and should any others arise, add them also. (see the category list under the heading of this post)
Users on our blog will be able to:
- View posts:
- by a certain category
- in chronological order (set by default)
- by monthly entries
- Use the search box to search for terms within the whole blog.
- Monitor the blog with RSS feeds.
- Leave comments on posts.
- Visit our friends’ websites/blogs.
You will be able to add images, links, videos (youtube and otherwise) into each post. You can also style the content using a WYSIWYG editor, much like you do in MS word.
You can make type Bold, or italic. Maybe add a strike-through?
You can right align text
Centre text
But probably best leave it like this!
- There
- are
- bullets
- like
- this
Or
- ordered
- bullets
- like
- this
It even has a spell-checker! So no excuses…
It’s very easy, I promise. And before too long you’ll be a fully-fledged blogger!
Over time we will be adding more and more features to our blog, we could add a photo gallery for example.
The design is intended to be quite simple, so that the content we create jumps from the screen. The elements such as icons and menu bars are intended to be second nature to users, but should you have any usability suggestions, just let us know.
Regular users will also have the ability to syndicate our blog using RSS technology. It is currently set up to monitor blog entries and also blog comments.
You will also see that we have added a blogroll, which is simply a list of links to our friends. Of course set by default we have; Hasgrove, The Chase and Interel. Please add more if you see fit.
One semi-useless gimmick that is pretty funky, is the draggable menus on the right hand-side, which allow you to prioritise the order of the menus. When returning to the blog, this order will be saved (using a setting file called a cookie). Cool heh?
Anyway, there are plenty more in depth features that the Wordpress engine has. So if you have any further questions, just shout!
P.S. If you’re wondering why the date for this post says Sep 5th, that’s because it has taken this long to write the first post!
