Warren Dell

If you head over to the projects pages now you can see the latest ones I have added which tell you about the work I have been involved with to train staff in understanding the various web analytics packages that we use, putting Ad creatives on our website and the creation of email campaigns and also helping writers understand the benefits of SEO.

Training & Support – Ad Serving and Email Packages
Training & Support – SEO for writers
Training & Support – Web Analytics Workshops

A new service has just been launched by iSites which allows you to create an iphone app in as quick as ten minutes. The service costs only $25 and allows you to take your websites RSS feeds to provide the content and add in your Twitter feeds, Flickr accounts and other social media before finally giving you the options to customise the headers, logo and menu.

Already regional newspapers in the US have taken the service up from the Daily Californian to The Stanford Daily and it’s something UK regional newspapers should be looking into and other content providers that may not have the resources or time to creating an app from scratch but want to distribute their content on the iPhone.

Compared to other services I’ve seen that can build you an app this looks the quickest way of getting one together for your website or blog and onto the Apple store. One thing we have been looking at for our titles at Redactive Media is producing iPhone apps and iSites is a service I’ll be testing out shortly to create one so will report back on the process next week.

I’ll be updating the projects page of my website during the next week so you can gain a further insight into my work.  The first project I have wrote about and is now published in the project section of this site is for the website of People Management magazine – the magazine of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development.

The requirement from the client was to increase People Management’s presence in Google, to bring in more referrals from the search engine and also to use SEO and other traffic building techniques to increase the visitors to the website.

You can read about the work on the People Management project page.

After finally succumbing to the dark side and getting the iphone, I’ve been excited about what apps I’m going to get.  An important one being which news apps I’m going to get for my on the move intake of what’s going on in the world.  I found this excellent resource from the Online Journalism Blog about ‘iphone News Apps Compared’ which covers news sources from both sides of the Atlantic.
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