Is your literature DDA compliant?

The new Disabilities Discrimination Act (DDA) is now in force and clearly outlines compliance criteria for company information, affecting corporate brochures, newsletters, web sites and just about all internal and external comms. Are you compliant?

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Professional services: A law unto themselves

If you’re in the Professional Services sector, the time’s right to sharpen up your brand identity and explore new media approaches to winning new business, before the competition gets one step ahead of the game. The more switched-on organisations will win in the end...

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Blogging takes off - Is that good or bad?

Blogs can transform your search position on Google at low cost, which can have incredibly positive benefits for your business but there is down side....

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Personalised print to boost DM sector

The UK Direct Mail sector is suffering a tough time, according to new research findings from the Advertising Association. But it’s not all doom and gloom - the uptake of new personalisation technology could provide a much needed boost for the sector.

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PDG podcast: show sixteen - 22_07_05

"This Is Very Suitable For Work"
- I don't think there's any swearing at all!!

T H E S H O W N O T E S:

• David Coe is sick...
• Design Management Training [1:00]
• Different people - different stories
• Tom Peters - Don't benchmark, futuremark! [6:08]
• Grab the future - or else...
• Too much information [8:32]
• We end up plugging Seth again...
• Feedburner evangelists [9.35]
• What idiot called you a guru?
• Communications teams - treasure them... [15:40]
• Everyone can make a difference
• Answers to your questions... [19.02]
• [1] How to avoid shitty projects - Tim Rickards
• [2] Website free pitches - Tim in Melbourne
• Shameless plug for Dave's Ashes blogsite - here
• Marketing Edge podcast here
• Trinny and Susannah rock...
• Any TV producers out there?

show length - 33:04

(Note: It's OK - it doesn' t seem that much longer - just bear with us dudes - hey we're answering your questions - and I'm not well!)

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the stats are holding...

Feedburner stats are going a bit silly - subscriptions in the last 24 hours have been holding steady around the 50 mark (it goes down at the weekends) - then all of a sudden feedburner is showing 0 for yesterday!

Hopefully it will sort itself out tomorrow...

UPDATE:
Didn't take that long - stats back showing 68 subscribers yesterday - looks about right to me!

pdg podcast: show fifteen - 15_07_05

"This Is Suitable For Work"
- hardly any swearing at all!!

T H E S H O W N O T E S:

• ...al fresco podcasting
• Please switch all pagers and mobile phones off!!! (Eloise Coe tries to muscle in)
• "pod learning" - a made up word? [1:30]
• 4G website pod learning available [5:45]
• The End of Advertising - not! [7:00]
• Hugh MacLeod says...
• Seth Godin says... [8:52]
• What Is Channel Marketing? [11:40]
• (Dave knows a lot about this!)
• PDG Channel Marketing landing page here
• It's all about relationships [17:30]
• Olympics and Live8 update
• Tiger Tiger burning bright
• Dave's "Comfort break" - stops podcast...

show length - 23:17

(Note: We didn't have the original shownotes with us - so we'll be answering some of the questions raised in our last podcast in show 16 - Thanks)

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pdg podcast: show fourteen - 06_07_05

"Not Suitable For Work"
We say fuck again... but we are quoting Bob Geldof

T H E S H O W N O T E S:

• ...welcome to i-tunes 4.9 listeners
• the "phone-mail box thing..."
• PDG Design Awards [3:55]
• the microphone breaks again [??:??]
• B2B Lead Generation podcast [6:55]
• Brian Carroll - "trigger events" sales strategy
• How Do You Resign a Customer Account? [11:02]
• It's all about closure...
• live8 Critique - Strategic Swearing Again... [17:25]
• Sir "Bob Gandolf" rocks...
• Cluetrain politicians? - Yeh right!!
• (we do actually like France and French people)
• Vote at podcastalley.com - get your friends to too...
• Even newer outro (+ Dave's outtake bonus track !)

show length - 23:44

("spot the join" competition - shout out in next week's show if you can guess correctly - bloody microphones...)

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podcasting and itunes 4.9...

Adam Curry may be right when he claims the latest update to i-tunes is the mainstream breakthrough podcasting has been waiting for...

If our webstats are anything to go by - the traffic to this blog and to download our podcasts has doubled since last week. (hey dudes - ok it's only like from 100 hits a day to 200 hits a day - but that's cool...)

Whilst this has raised bandwidth issues for the more popular podcasts like http://www.dawnanddrew.com/ and dailysourcecode.com it's a sign that corporate podcasters can feel more comfortable that the audience for this marketing channel is about to increase dramatically. (the number of podcasters will also explode!!)

We're still trying to figure all this out for ourselves and our customers.

In the meantime if you've found us through i-tunes 4.9 - a big welcome!

Please "keep subscribed" to our blog / podcast and we'll try and get a wider conversation going with you...

NOTE : podcast 14 due to hit your ears on WED 6th July!!