Category Archives: Search Engine Marketing

Training & Events Calendar

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Barrie Foster

Whatever your training needs and wherever you are in Wales, there should be a training event coming to a venue near you. Stop Press: Anyone interested in a Photoshop course in Carmarthen? Software Alliance Wales is planning a 2 day … Continue reading →

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Share Wales: A retrospective

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Barrie Foster

The Digital Tourism Business Project has a mission to move the tourism industry in Wales to full digital maturity by the end of 2014. The Visit Wales:Share Wales web site is an important part of this effort:  an eclectic mix … Continue reading →

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Words or pictures?

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Barrie Foster

Words of wisdom It is an interesting (and sometimes tedious) part of the Share Wales editor’s role to monitor the blogs and postings of digital gurus for tips, tricks, new developments and other useful information. Perhaps every business should do … Continue reading →

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Rural communities: The pub’s the hub

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Barrie Foster

Local communities – bringing it all together It has been part of our mission to help small tourism enterprises create their own online space and develop their own, individual, content. Individual content differentiates one business from another, addresses the pre-occupations of selected … Continue reading →

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Something for the weekend …

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Barrie Foster

The best coin ever spent … We just had to share this, which has been cropping up all over the place on Facebook. A small girl drops a small coin into a hat and unleashes five minutes of splendour in … Continue reading →

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Web content: take a snapshot

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Barrie Foster

Content marketing – the Next Big Thing? Hardly the next big thing – the use of good quality content to add value to marketing activity has been with us for a very long time, especially in the tourism sector. But … Continue reading →

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Instagram and other animals

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Barrie Foster

Our flexible friends? At the end of 2012, Instagram caused consternation, not to say outrage, in the digital community by announcing a change in its ‘proprietary rights to content’ due to take effect in mid-January 2013. Whilst acknowledging that the … Continue reading →

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Toolkits & Training

Posted on December 18, 2012 by Barrie Foster

New on Share Wales: The Toolbox Over the next few months we will be adding a whole new range of resources to Share Wales in the form of “How-to Guides” covering all aspects of online activity: web site management, social … Continue reading →

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Photo sharing with Twitter

Posted on October 13, 2012 by Barrie Foster

National Trust Wales launches Facebook/Twitter/Instagram app At the end of September 2012 The National Trust Wales launched a Facebook app, developed by Newport-based Coup Media, that uses Twitter and Instagram to allow users to share photographic content and stories from … Continue reading →

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Digital health checks: The Movie

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Barrie Foster

Earlier this summer Hywel Davies, of Llwynifan Farm Caravan Park, Llangennech, near Llanelli, described how his business has benefited from a Computer, Internet and Technology health check. Our video takes you through the process, as an ICT specialist examines accounting, use … Continue reading →

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Micro businesses & the Internet: Free and easy

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Barrie Foster

When is a blog not a blog? Just because software developers and the world at large have fixed ideas about the function of blogs – to bring the invaluable judgements of opinionated egomaniacs to a deserving public – this does … Continue reading →

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Scene Setting: In praise of blogging

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Barrie Foster

Keeping your customers up to speed Our visitors rely more and more on instant information to make decisions on where to go, where to stay and what to do. Even the smallest business with an Internet presence is part of … Continue reading →

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