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Whenever I give a talk or a workshop I try to make the slide deck available to download. Here's the deck for the Sport Hampshire & IoW County Sports Partnership's conference, held 24 April at The ageas Bowl. I guess that means that I'll never make it to the Rosebowl after all!

If you...

Many of our clients are still undecided about whether or not to develop a mobile version of their site. This example might help you to make the decision.

In February we added a mobile option to BUCS's web site, principally showing their fixtures and results, but also carrying news and...

BUCS (British Universities & Colleges Sports) have just made it easy for any University to embed their BUCS league tables and cup results to their own web site.

It will be easier to show you how this works than to explain. In approximately the time it takes to read this blog entry, I...

Our guidelines designed to help the County FAs with their first few steps in to social media have just hit the presses. Or more accurately, just been made available via the FA's extranet, MyFA.

I'm afraid I can't let you have the full document as it's just for internal FA use, but here's...

Over the last couple of days, I've been with the English Golf Union. We've covered a lot of ground from Google Analytics to search engine optimisation, web content writing to social media.

We had a look at putting together a social media content plan to make sure they take advantage of...

Lovely to see Google +1 has launched, have you noticed it yet? It's the little box you can see highlighted in the image here.

But yet again Google has scored an own goal by disadvantaging its Google Apps users. As you can see, Google Apps users can't use Google +1 !! 

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Yesterday, I ran a couple of workshops at Goodform's Sports CRM Summit 2011. It was an interesting mix of attendees, with delegates coming from professional football clubs (including Man United, FC Barcelona and Swindon Town) along with several national governing bodies.

I think it's...

I've finally got around to tidying up my slide set from our client workshops on search engine optimisation. Obviously you get more out of coming along on the day, but hope this proves useful.

Do also bear in mind that this is a hands on workshop designed specifically for Nemisys clients...

Today, many of our sporting clients have been letting the many hundreds of thousands of people who play their sports know that they can now order Olympic tickets from the London2012 site. And reminding them that they can only pay with a...

By way of informally launching our Get Active platform, we attended the County Sports Partnerships National Convention. To be honest, attending this sort of event as "exhibitors" is always a little soul destroying. Partly because we...

I plan to write up my experiences of my first event organised during Social Media Week as soon as I can, but meanwhile I thought it would be useful to bring together some links in 1 place. I'll add to this post as more links come in to me, so do please email in your photos etc.

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You’re putting in all that effort to create content for your social media presence and your web site. That's fantastic, and will help to engage your visitors, clients and followers.

This paper shows you how with a little more effort you can get even better value for all of that...

As you would expect, we test our web sites, applications and email templates for the most common system set ups. I thought it would be interesting to share with you some of the sources we use for this information. I know, I know - "interesting" is pushing it a bit far!

The...

A quick peruse of Twitter showed that 48 of our web clients Tweet, about 1/3 of them. And so I thought a paper.li of the Tweets would give you a good idea of the kind of people we work with.

Unfortunately the embed doesn't work, but click the image to read the paper, or click here <a...

We spend a good deal of time optimising your web site to ensure you receive a good number of relevant visitors from the search engines. Because the vast majority of our clients prefer to write their own copy, virtually all of this effort goes in to the development of our CMS, and the design,...

Last week, we spent a lovely afternoon hobnobbing with the great and the good from the UK fitness industry, courtesy of our friends Promote. It's only when you see so many influential people in a room that you realise how well connected an agency is.

The whole event was fantastically...

Today saw a departure from the usual pixel-pushing design that normally occupies my day. User-centred, wonderfully navigable, brand imbued pixel pushing though it may be ...

At Nemisys, we have an important pitch coming up so we’re busy putting our proposal together. This will...

We've just produced some widgets for Deloitte Parasport. The idea is that people who run web sites related to sport can 'pick up' a copy of Parasport's search functionality and signpost their visitors towards clubs and sports in their area.

So what better way to help people find...

It's over 10 years since we ran Autism99, an online conference designed to bring people together to discuss this subject so important to so many people. That's not news, I know. But as Autism2010 draws to a close, I thought I'd take...

Fair warning, this isn't for everyone! But for those of you who are really getting to grips with your analytics, you'll find it a useful technique.

Within the video, I show you how to create an Advanced Segment of people who download a specific document on your web site. This could be...

We know our Google Analytics, Search Engine...

I hope you don't mind indulging me for 2 minutes while I relay an email that has just crossed my desk. Not the sort of tub-thumping I'm usually comfortable with, but in this case I had absolutely nothing to do with the project ...! All I'm really doing is making public a thank you to the team...

Those of you who know me will know I enjoy my golf, which is why I enjoy heading up our activities in golf. One day I'll list them, but suffice to say we work with the English Golf Union, the English Women's Golf Association, England Golf Partnership, the County Golf Partnerships, the Golf...

I though it might be interesting to share with you some thoughts from a recent social media workshop I ran at Goodform's CRM in Sports Summit at the Media Centre at Lords cricket ground.

We had 40 people from a variety of organisations participating, including sports governing bodies...

There's always plenty to do when launching a new site, and because things get hectic there are often the same few things which are easy to forget. One of these is to amend your URL-based goals in Google Analytics - you know, the ones we set up on our <a...

What can I say, Google now shows your search results as you type, and here's a preview.

Go to www.google.com/instant to turn on for yourself.

I've been pondering the impact that this will have for our clients. What should you...

I've just come across yet another study, this time referenced in The Chronicle of Philanthropy, on the rising age of the average social networker.

Whilst it's important to note that Facebook et al are...

One of the things I aim to do on our blog is share with you the interesting projects Nemisys and ipadio are involved with. "Interesting" is a highly subjective view, so you'll quickly get a feel for what makes me tick, and equally whether these snippets are for you!

First up,...

For several years now, I've been passionate that our clients should understand how their web site is performing. It's good for them (why bother with a job if you don't care that you are succeeding?) and good for Nemisys (so we can see things working too, and how else will you justify further...

Now most of our advice covers things that you should do, but occasionally it's also worthwhile ensuring that you DON'T make simple mistakes too. If you are one of our many charity clients running a challenge event this may apply to you.

As you know, the charity...

Short and sweet - the slide deck I used for a Social Media Workshop run jointly with Sue Anstiss of Promote PR. It was good fun, and I am happy to report that none of us needed to use the punchbags hanging up in the room.

Watch this space for more workshops. Or better still, email...

If you run a Facebook Page, you will know how useful it is to import your blog in to the Notes tab. But if you run 2 blogs, you can't import 2 feeds in to your Notes tab.

Actually, that's not quite true. This video will show you a work around that you can use to do just...

It’s odd, but "out of the box" Google Analytics only partially reports on how well your promotional campaigns lead to sales. It will tell you how much you sold, but not which products sold. And knowing which products sold in which campaigns is sort of vital to knowing how well...

Many of our web development contracts involve replacing old web sites rather than developing web sites on new domains. So what is the best practice when replacing an old web site with a new web site? Specifically, how do we ensure that the valuable incoming links to the old site still benefit...

Occasionally I come across such a wonderfully poor example of how to do business that it’s worth writing about. No names, no pack drill, of course.

Today I was invited to an awards dinner. We’re not nominated, I was just a guest on someone's table.

But it’s...

It seemed appropriate for the first blog I've written for Nemisys that I should muse a little on how on earth I ended up here. I began my working life with a PhD in Biotechnology, a first degree in Ecology, long hair, a beard and, yes, sandals. I now work as the CEO of Nemisys a company that...