Most of us will find that today’s websites can be way too difficult to use. They can be overcrowded with irrelevant information, large advertisements and confusing functionality. When visiting any new website I want to navigate and find the information I need as simple and as quickly as possible.
If you were to open a news web site you will get bombarded with alot of images, small text and advertisements floating around everywhere on the page (I’m looking at you, Herald Sun), this is a great example of a website that wants to do too much, too quickly.
Many websites force themselves to make money through many pushy...

Putting together your own in house social media team can be surprisingly hard. Well, let me rephrase that... Putting together your own effective in house social media team can be surprisingly hard. There are many skills and personality traits that need to be taken in to account when choosing the right people for the job.  I say people, because no matter if you are a large multinational, or a small 5 person firm, social media should always be the responsibility of more than one person.

So here are my tips on putting together your social media team...

1. Internal or External?

The first and...

Have you ever sent an email or an instant message or a status update only to look at it later and cringe at your own misspelllongs? To avoid it, literally, watch what you're doing.

I hate spell-checkers. Hate them. I hate them with a fury that burns white-hot like the blazing infernos of Hades. If you are so desperate to avoid having to use your education why not just stick a spoon in your ear, scoop out part of your brain, pop it in an envelope and send it to Microsoft to look after. I hate them.

Spell checkers are the Osama Bin Laden of software packages. If your computer has one then sooner or later you will end...