Would you read Oliver Twist or Animal Farm over and over? If you’re a fan of Dickens or Orwell, perhaps you would.
Would you read blur Group blog posts over and over?
Well, we think the more appropriate question would be why wouldn’t you peruse our prose again and again and again…just in case you overlooked a key point first time ‘round.
Or, if your life is simply too manic to mention, here’s a snapshot of blur Group’s blogs over the past week, in 140 characters, Twitter-stylee:
No Free Lunches, Super Bowl Ads, Google-Killer, Entrepreneurialism, ROI, SEO/Web Design, Picasso, Bloggers, Social Media Week and ASCII Art.
With one character to spare too, good going if we don’t say so ourselves.
But for those with a little more time on their hands, here’s a proper catch-up on blur Group’s blogging exploits over the past five days.
Monday got off to a flyer, with the revelation that – contrary to popular belief – there is in fact no such thing as a free lunch. Unless you’re a thief, of course. The news that all those lovely perks you sometimes get with traditional creative agencies must be paid-for somewhere along the line may surprise some, but not us, oh no.
The day ambled along rather nicely until we discovered someone’s trying to kill Google! That’s right, young upstart – sorry, startup – Blekko, is the new search engine on the block and it’s promising to ‘slash’ the web a new, erm, portal.
The Super Bowl was next up, and the blur Group took a good look at all those lovely adverts that graced millions of TV screens throughout the year’s biggest (American) football event. Some were great…and some were, well, not so great. We then discovered one of the adverts was made for a mere $500. So we wrote about that on Tuesday.
The amateur film-maker responsible made a cool million from his innovative efforts. Now that he’s loaded, he could do a lot worse than read our take on what makes a successful entrepreneur. If he thinks he fits the bill, there’s a lot he could do with a million big ones. Maybe launch a new search engine? Maybe not.
What’s the point in spending a small fortune on social media if you’ve no idea if it’s working or not? You’re right, there’s no point. But fret not, blur Group’s second instalment in our social media ROI series looked at traffic, ROI and digital assets. Not content with helping you analyse your ROI, we also thought we’d give out a few tips on designing websites with search engines in mind.
And if you started the week wondering whether Picasso would defy the recession in 2011 (Q1), you didn’t have to wait too long. On Wednesday, we reported that one of Picasso’s paintings exchanged hands for £25m. Well, £25.2m to be exact, but what’s a couple of hundred thousand between friends?
The web sure is a big place…it’s even bigger than Canada! In fact, it’s so big, it can sometimes be difficult finding the best bloggers to pal-up with. Not any more, thanks to Thursday’s guide on tracking down the best bloggers around.
blur Group joined the crowd at Social Media Week in London and wrote all about it on Thursday. It was a fantastic event, with both Nokia and Microsoft in attendance. These guys never go anywhere without each other, they should get a room together. Or, at the very least, form a strong alliance.
Finally, ASCII is hardly a suitable talking-point for the dinner table, but it has spawned a whole new art form. Proof, if any was needed, that creativity and innovation can grow from the smallest of seeds.
So there you have it, a week in the life of blur Group’s blogs. Same time next week?
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