by Gill Booles | Mar 14, 2013 | Blog, Communication, Content, Digital, Print
Gill Booles reviews The Shallows by Nicholas Carr for All Media Scotland. Reproduced – you need to be signed up to read the original Remember the Tomorrow People ? Well, it seems the next stage of human evolution is more likely to be the Pancake People – spread wide...
by Gill Booles | Dec 31, 2012 | Communication, Digital, Marketing, Print, Self-publishing, social media, Website
You look back. You look back to the start of the year when plans were being drawn up. Back when it all seemed so simple. It is simple. Well no perhaps that’s a tad simplistic, if ‘it’ is life. I’m not a lifestyle guru. There are many other blogs which will promise...
by Gill Booles | Dec 11, 2012 | advertising, Digital, Marketing
I have a confession to make. I have never prepared a Xmas dinner. I prefer cheese to chocolate. I only own a couple of pairs of shoes. My shopping trips consist of darting into a store to buy the item I’ve previously identified online. No, I am not a man. But at this...
by Gill Booles | Nov 12, 2012 | Communication, Digital
It was when the HMRC call centre worker said ‘we can fax them through’ that I was briefly pulled up short. Until then I’d been OK. I had my 10 digit personal reference number and password, I even had a print copy of old statements. Fax? I looked wildly round the room....
by Gill Booles | Jun 8, 2012 | Digital, Website
This is the invitation on the contact form on The Broken Family Band website. That box waiting to be filled with an email address is like the big red button you know you shouldn’t touch. You really want to see what happens. According to the website, the band played...
by Gill Booles | Feb 15, 2011 | Communication, Digital, Website
Today’s phones enable people to do most of the things they used to use computers for. It’s therefore worth considering how this affects communication. Here are 5 issues to bear in mind when communicating with smartphones. Quick Response (QR) codes. Black and white...
