Darryl King's blog ireckon

How much do you really know about your site visitors?

darryl — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:35:54 +0000

I spoke today at Interactive Minds’ September event, specifically on metrics. The talk consisted of two of my favourite metrics tools. This post is about Clicktale, a brilliant usability and conversion tool. Funnily enough while reviewing my notes, I saw a posting from @franksting talking about measuring readers, not visitors on his blog. Amongst a [...]

When politics needs influencing who you gonna call?

darryl — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:45:00 +0000

While the ultimate decision on who gets to govern Australia is still being made, the results are being measured on how digital / online activity had an impact on both Politicians and Voters. There are of course many ‘hustings’ online that relevant candidates had to consider, each with its own merits and bad points, each [...]

Are you listening, politicians? I didn’t think so!

darryl — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:30:49 +0000

There is a lot of talk about this election campaign and the fact it hasn’t been much of a ‘social election’, meaning the lack of Social Media involvement. Ever since the Barack Obama campaign team leapt whole heartedly into using social media and other forms of digital communications to promote issues, communicate and raise funds [...]

Run a tweeterview with a major political figure in Australia and win a blog site for a year

darryl — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:33:23 +0000

Heck. It’s late and I figure it’s giveaway time. So if a journalist or blogger or professional interviewer of any description wants a free blog site (quality professionally built one) including a domain name and hosting and email all you have to do is: Conduct a tweeterview using www.tweeterview.com First professional, properly conducted @tweeterview prior [...]

Welcome to the Lucky Country

darryl — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:10:07 +0000

Warning this post has an extreme overuse of bad clichés It has dawned on me that we have turned our back on our entire culture. The radios and TV channels are full of it, the newspapers covered in it. Apparently we are overrun with a plague of asylum seekers that threatens our very existence. Like [...]