by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 15 Jun, 2011 | Behavioural Analysis
Most people screw up their nose when they hear the word data. I admit it, I used to be one of those people. I liked to think of myself as a words person, or that I am more creative and not good with numbers. When in fact, you don’t necessarily have to be good at...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 14 Jun, 2011 | Behavioural Analysis, Social media marketing
Hiya folks, thought it was about time I shared some more of the excellent wisdom that guides me through this labyrinth that is our digital landscape. 1. Business2Community have been talking about the power of sharing – did you know that on average, each link on...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 9 Jun, 2011 | Behavioural Analysis, Online Advertising
Before web analytics there was adserving media tracking called spotlight tags or action tags or post click and post view tracking and at the time these were brilliant and revolutionary. Post click and post view conversion tracking tags (tags are the html code that the...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 7 Jun, 2011 | Research & Trends, Search Marketing
I haven’t had a lot of time to write in the last week as I’ve been busy preparing my second SEO workshop for one of my clients, the Nature Conservation Trust, as well as getting closer and closer to launching the new WWF-Australia website. It’s all...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 2 Jun, 2011 | Search Marketing
Search engine land has been doing the research for us and found, deep in Google’s FAQs, a mention of how the new Google +1 social media short code button (the html code that allows you to add the button to your webpages) may help get your website crawled more...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 31 May, 2011 | Social media marketing
Today I am simply going to regurgitate an excellent blog post that I read yesterday by my favourite social media strategist, Amy Sample Ward. Crowd or community sourcing are definitely worthy tactics in a social media strategy, but they are not for the faint hearted....
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 30 May, 2011 | Content marketing, Social media marketing
Let me be clear up front, I am not a business blogger. I’ve been advocating for an organisational blog at WWF for almost 2 years now and I will continue to push for it as it will definitely help us reach our global goal of “mobilising millions”, but...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 27 May, 2011 | Content marketing, Digital marketing strategy, Search Marketing
As every good digital or online person knows, your marketing campaign is only as good as the landing page you send people to. So when I started in a new role and had to build a digital strategy, online marketing and communications plan and build a new website, I took...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 25 May, 2011 | Behavioural Analysis, Content marketing, Search Marketing
I’m conducting my first SEO workshop for the Nature Conservation Trust today. I’m excited about moving forward with their approved digital strategy and website content upgrade. I will first give the group an education in Google Analytics and...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 24 May, 2011 | Social media marketing
Do people, marketers, businesses, organisations understand that social media is more than just facebook and twitter? I’m not sure. Sure, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn have the highest profile and the largest number of users – but this doesn’t always...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 19 May, 2011 | Content marketing, Online Advertising
Made a new contact on twitter today (@OPENtwit) who opened my eyes to a new rich media display online advertising banner format. It is called an IMU format – an Intelligent Media Unit. Joshua Rex is the founder of an agency in London, This Is Open, who are...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 16 May, 2011 | Web Inspiration
Back in January I was raving about why I love the internet and what a Google fan I am. And really, what’s not to love? In 2010 Google launched their html5 browser test The Wilderness Downtown to promote how efficient and fast Google Chrome was. The Wilderness...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 12 May, 2011 | Behavioural Analysis, Digital marketing strategy, Research & Trends
In my current job I have spent the last 15+ months building a new website for WWF-Australia. People never know where to start when building a small or large scale website, so here is the process I followed and will recommend. Analysis of the web logs or Website...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 10 May, 2011 | Content marketing
So I was reading through my RSS feeds this morning and there is quite a bit of chat about Video. Google’s blog Welcome to the future of video got me thinking about the video series I remember being obsessed with for a short while in 2007/8. I’ve spent the...
by Shanelle Newton Clapham | 5 May, 2011 | Social media marketing
Yesterday I had lunch with my old boss. It was a lovely catch up session where I got to pick the brains of my mentor about my career and life in general. And then he asked me a question that sparked quite a long diatribe from me. He asked me “What’s your...
