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Emotional & Immersive Media

I genuinely love what I do and as anyone who knows me can tell you, I can talk about web strategy and design for hours. Now I have the chance to inspire and be inspired by a new generation of designers with fresh ideas.

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  • 3 February 2012
  • by Jo

Custom Post Type Privacy wordpress plugin

Download the Custom Post Type Privacy Plugin

I’ve been working on an internal project that uses both wordpress and bbpress (A forum plugin for wordpress). One of the major issues I came across with bbpress was privacy. I needed a way to only allow specific users, or specific groups of users access to specific forums.

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  • 10 January 2012
  • by Kev

Brilliant Tipp-ex Viral

We all enjoy a good viral, but these days it has to be an exceptional piece of work to really make an impact, particularly when aimed at the general public and not a specific audience. Tipp-ex’s latest is one of the best we’ve seen. So what makes a good viral? Entertainment Interactivity Relevancy to the [...]

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  • 9 September 2010
  • by Jo

Ki Media have a new home

After outgrowing our Pink Lane office, we now have a new home in a Grade II listed building in Charlotte Square, Newcastle. The new space gives us much more room to work and a great meeting space to discuss projects with clients.

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  • 23 August 2010
  • by Jo

Jo Joins Web Designer Magazine Experts Team

Starting this month (May 2010), our Creative Director Jo will be writing for Web Designer Magazine.

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  • 7 May 2010
  • by Kev

Geek cushions FTW

Home furnishing is probably not what you would expect to be reading about on a web company’s blog, but we thought our lovely new Craftsquatch cushions deserved a mention!

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  • 3 April 2010
  • by Kev

Jo Speaks at Girl Geeks North East

Is there something you always wanted to know about the web, but never had a chance to ask, or never had a satisfactory answer? Or, maybe you’re sick of hearing buzz words and not knowing what they mean?

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  • 1 March 2010
  • by Kev

What Michael Jackson can teach us about internet marketing

Unfortunately there’s still no better way to ensure your immortally than dieing before your time! Suddenly all those things that people disliked about you, don’t seem to matter!

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  • 10 July 2009
  • by Jo

19 things we learned at Thinking Digital 09

Last week we were very well looked after at the 2009 Thinking Digital conference at the Sage, Gateshead.

It was an amazing event, well done team Codeworks! As well as meeting lots of old friends and making lots of new ones, we came away with a load of new insights and answers to questions we didn’t realize we had.

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  • 22 May 2009
  • by Jo

7 Reasons to use twitter for online marketing

We’re becoming more and more addicted to twitter. You can follow us at www.twitter.com/kimedia. Here’s our top 7 reasons from an online business perspective for using the micro-blogging phenomenon that’s challenging Facebook for the social networking crown.

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  • 24 April 2009
  • by Jo

I’m brian.doc and so is my wife

More information is being shared now than ever before, with emails and collaborative technology it’s much easier to send files to and fro, or simultaneously edit the same document as a colleague. These files get downloaded from emails, networks and servers onto local hard drives, but how much thought is given to how that file’s.

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  • 17 April 2009
  • by Jo

How to make the most of email marketing

Despite the threat of spam, viruses and the amazingly inadequate but widely-used Outlook 07, email is still going strong. According to the “Internet 2008 in numbers“pingdom report there are 1.3 billion email users worldwide. Email continues to be the main method of direct remote communication for businesses and consumers alike. Here’s what you need to know to get the most out of email marketing.

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  • 26 February 2009
  • by Jo