18.06.08Business Cards
We finally got our new business cards! Printed on 300 GSM Silk Card, with a nice Spot UV on the back. Lovely.
So lovely in fact, they’ve even made it onto Faveup, a site that showcases inspirational design. Wehey!
20.05.08MediaCamp Bucks ‘08
Ploc Media recently attended MediaCamp Bucks ‘08
“MediaCamp Bucks ‘08 - An un-conference digging on advertising, blogging, web-dev, branding, new and social media”
We attended a couple of talks in the morning and learned some very helpful information regarding social media and its importance in the future on of the web, as well as meeting some very interesting characters!
Social Media is fast becoming a very important way of marketing your business online, and we’re looking in to all the possibilities here to help our clients keep up with the ever-changing online world.
So what exactly is Social Media?
Trying to put it simply, social media uses emerging technology so that people can share content, personal opinions, perspectives and insights over the Internet.
Some of these ’social media’ websites are among the most popular in the world right now, these include.
Social Networking
Websites that allows you to create a personal profile and then chat, discuss and share information with others such as friends and family. The leaders in this area are MySpace, Bebo and Facebook.
Wikis
Wikis are websites that allow you to create, edit and share information about a subject or topic. A great example of this is Wikipedia, no doubt the most famous of the Wikis.
Video Sharing
Video-sharing sites like YouTube allow you to upload your own videos to the Internet and share them with anyone and everyone. Everything from personal opinions to viral marketing videos can be found here.
Photo Sharing
Photo-sharing websites like Flickr allow users to upload pictures and images to a personal account which can then be viewed by web users the world over.
News Aggregation
News aggregators provide a list of the latest news stories published by users from a range of different websites. Digg, for instance, is one of the web’s largest news aggregators with one of the most dedicated communities.
Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking sites allow users to publicly bookmark web pages they find valuable in order to share them with other internet users. Delicious is a popular example.
Presence Applications
Websites that allow you to post micro blog-like posts to announce what you are currently doing. Twitter is a good example of a presence app.
Social media is evolving so fast, the examples above are just some of the more popular sites at the moment, but many of these formats have been used on smaller more specialist sites sticking to one genre, a video sharing site just for website design for example, or a news aggregator just for sport. Not only is social media evolving, it is breeding too, creating hybrids of any of the above mentioned applications.
So where can you find Ploc in all of this? Well here we go:
Ploc on Myspace
Ploc on Facebook
Ploc on Twitter
Ploc on Flickr
If you’re interested in attending a similar event, there is a MediaCamp London ‘08 on the 5th of July, maybe we’ll see you there.
20.05.08Stickers!
Stickers stickers stickers, everybody loves stickers! (Well, most people..)
We’ve created a lovely batch of 15 stickers using Moo.com.
We will now proceed to stick them on everything in the office until we get told off. Yay!
Take a look:
12.05.08Gallery Features
We’ve been getting lots of praise over our new website since we launched last week, in fact we’ve been kindly featured on several online galleries showcasing the best in CSS design. Which is great!
You can see us on:
Daily Slurp - Site of the day!
Thanks to everyone who included us.
If you’ve seen us anywhere else, just drop us a comment and we’ll add it to the list.
07.05.08What we like!
Music:
Being trapped in the office all day at this sunny time, there is nothing better than opening the windows and putting on some random Radio 1. At the moment Chris Moyles and Jo Wiley takes our fancy. Listen online here.
We are also very excited about seeing Alphabeat at KOKO’s in Camden in June. They are a Danish band, breaking through in England at the moment, so for Rikke it will almost be like going home. Check out their singles “Fascination” and “10000 Nights of Thunder”. Album out on the 2nd of June
TV:
Season 2 of Heroes have started and it’s at least as good as the first one. Can not wait for another episode on Thursday.
Gadgets:
Rikke has just bought a new phone. Decided not to be like everyone else, and stayed far away from the infamous i-Phone and ended up with the Windows Mobile 6.0 HTC NyNY 11.
It’s functional, good looking and affordable. Check it out here.
Clothes:
We recommend that you all go online on www.shoestudio.com or visit House of Fraiser and buy a pair of TOM’s shoes.
Everytime you buy a pair of these comfortable summer shoes a pair is donated to a needing child in Africa – and they are only £25.
You can also buy other accessories such as bags, which can pay for school fees and meals.