Google engineer Matt Cutts announced earlier this week that all Google.com users logged into their Google accounts (like gmail) will not be traceable. This means SEOs like ourselves cannot track what keywords have been used to arrive at our clients’ sites. However, even while on personalised search, the PPC ads are still trackable. Why the [...]
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How Will Google’s SSL Encryption Affect Natural Search?
20 October 2011 | Posted by Henry Elliss | Digital Marketing Director | Analytics, Search, Social ResponsibilityTags: Google, Matt Cutts, natural search, PPC, SSL
Tamar’s Friday #FailureToLaunch #4 – Blackberry & Apple Crumble Served up on Twitter
14 October 2011 | Posted by Ashley Turner | Funny, mobile, Social Media, Social Responsibility, TechnologyIt’s Friday again and you know what that means… it’s time for another recap of the week’s funniest/strangest/most embarrassing FAILs from the week in marketing/online. We hope you’re ready… this week was a doozy! Apple & Blackberry Crumble With recent Blackberry failures all over the globe and the error message that appeared when users attempted [...]
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Cyber paranoia? German state bans the Facebook ‘Like’ button
23 August 2011 | Posted by Annie Wakefield | Digital Marketing Manager | Social Media, Social ResponsibilityA German state has taken the first step to protect the privacy of its citizens through banning the ‘Like’ button. State institutions in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany were ordered to shut down their Facebook Pages and remove the “Like” plug-in from their websites last week. Thilo Weichert, data protection commissioner for the Independent Centre for Privacy [...]
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The social media voice and THAT Footballer
24 May 2011 | Posted by Annie Wakefield | Digital Marketing Manager | Social Media, Social Responsibilityhe Arab world utilised twitter to move millions to demonstrations for freedom; now, here in the UK, we have a peculiar variation of twitter being used for free speech.
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Cape Town CSR project kicks off
14 June 2010 | Posted by Annie Wakefield | Digital Marketing Manager | Social Responsibility, TamarTags: csr, Gugulethu, Youth Day
Football fever has us all in its grasp here in Cape Town, and the football analogies are going to last until the very last game…but we have taken a moment to remember our CSR project tomorrow. We’ll be putting up a food tent at Vuyani Primary in Gugulethu – check it out here. Everything is [...]
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It’s CSR time in Cape Town!
8 June 2010 | Posted by Annie Wakefield | Digital Marketing Manager | Social ResponsibilityTags: Cape Town, csr
It’s CSR time in Cape Town and once again we are looking forward to helping out at Vuyani Primary. Every year the Tamar Cape Town raises funds which are used to help out at the school. Last year we built every classroom a bespoke bookshelf, set up an outdoor classroom and built two sturdy seesaws [...]
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Facebook Privacy Policy – a slow slide towards disintergration
11 May 2010 | Posted by Alex Christie | Social Media, Social ResponsibilityTags: facebook, facebook privacy policy, open graph, Privacy, privacy policy, social media
Since Facebook first launched the privacy policy that it adopted in its infancy it has slowly eroded. In the beginning it had the privacy of the user at heart, but now it seems as if Facebook is growing into a monopoly that feels that it control the internet. The exact foundations of their success are being forgotten [...]
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Facebook panic button meeting with CEOP in Washington
12 April 2010 | Posted by Alex Christie | Social ResponsibilityTags: ashleigh hall, bebo, ceop, child explotation and online protection agency, facebook, panic button
Facebook executives are set to meet with the head of a British child protection agency in Washington, to discuss the safety of the younger members of the social networking site. Facebook has come under fire recently from the Child Explotation and Online Protection agency after Ashleigh Hall, 17, was raped and murdered by a man [...]
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Tamar is Agency of the Year – a 1st for a UK Search agency
27 November 2009 | Posted by Tanya Goodin | CEO | Analytics, Experience Design, Search, Social Media, Social Responsibility, Tamar, Tanya Goodin, TechnologyTags: featured, Search
I am over the moon that last night we were named Agency of the Year by the Financial Services Forum at the spectacular Guildhall in London. It was a nail-biting effort by Team Tamar to get there involving a flat tyre, a motorbike rescue dash and a pair of black-tie suit trousers being rescued from [...]
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How to fundraise for charity
25 August 2009 | Posted by Annie Wakefield | Digital Marketing Manager | Social Responsibility, TamarOk, so sorry, I don’t actually have the definitive answer to this difficult question, however I wanted to share our experiences of successful fundraising and also some brilliant ideas I’ve seen work for others. We raise money every year for a number of community projects that we get involved with; the money goes towards materials, equipment [...]
