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This isn’t usually a blog for work but in the spirit of ‘things of interest’, the new Being-Digital new website (designed and built by us) launched earlier this week.
Being-Digital is a conference for the discerning digital beings amongst us. Hopefully a place to garner some knowledge and mingle with the digiteratti. Amanda will be in attendance as a panellist, probably without the pink cowboy hat.
More info on the website and digital brochure.
A little while ago I added a vote for your favourite Web App button on here. Now the results are in. My particular favourites are Mint and Basecamp and of course WordPress. Surprisingly FaceBook is only number 4 although it does seem to be going through a ‘it’s got too big let’s knock it down’ phase at the moment.
The full list is here.
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If you’re into web apps (and why wouldn’t you be?) you can vote for your favourite and have a chance to win a wii.
Just click on the box at the top and it’ll take you to the voting form.
You can now bookmark news items on the BBC on your favourite social bookmarking/sharing website. More here.
We’re designing 4 websites at the moment (at the last count) that all include some sort of social commerce and social network, so here’s some timely research from e-consultancy.
My key outtakes …
- More than half of UK online customers say reviews are extremely or very important in making an online purchase.
- More than half of all online sellers (51%) consider User Generated Content (UGC) as either extremely important or very important to company strategy over the next year.
- Customer ratings and reviews are being used by 28% of online sellers, with more than half (52%) saying that they were considering the use of this feature on their websites.
- The most widely perceived benefit of ratings and reviews among online sellers is an improvement in site conversion rates, improved customer retention and loyalty, and better search engine optimisation.
- The overwhelming majority of survey respondents (97%) said that they found ratings and reviews either extremely helpful or very helpful “as consumers”.
Meanwhile in the ‘real’ world nearly two thirds of fashion retailers still don’t have a transactional website. I know, I know I really must find something new to wang on about.
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