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Digital marketing facilitator. Painfully passionate about keeping your 0s and 1s in working order. Obsequious to the right project leader. Here to vent, offload & unpack 30 years of design agency #ITProblems. Catharsis, I usually cheer up again shortly after posting a rant. Master in #Perl #MacromediaColdFusion #FlashActionscript #MacromediaDirector #Lingo #CMSMadeSimple #WebGUI #bloxsom #Mambo #XOOPS #PHPNuke #EZPublish #ConcreteCMS #Smarty #CakePHP
At least one AI premonition appears to be coming true. Comp wants to offload its #B2B bid/tender writing process to an AI company given access to all our cloud data storage, historical projects, costs, charges etc so it can match staff and capabilities to improve the chance of winning high value tenders. The AI company also offer to intelligently parse and filter tenders for the very companies we wish to appeal to. Let your AI talk to our AI.
https://bsky.app/profile/samflakes.bsky.social/post/3mag6p3kskc25
1000 website visitors that don’t fit your niche are gonna convert at 0% no matter how cool or “optimised” your website is
Sam Flakes (@samflakes.bsky.social)

Too many founders get hung up on website conversion when the easiest way to increase it is: market to the right audience. 1000 website visitors that don’t fit your niche are gonna convert at 0% no matter how cool or “optimised” your website is #buildinpublic

Bluesky Social

Managing Director: We have a new #DigitalMarketing person! They really know what they're doing this time.

Task 1: Please help us authenticate MailChimp and add a signup form on site.

(Circling back to them now are we? All those other marketing people who had their own favourite CRM & bulk mailers every time they came onboard, it must be the service, not the content. Sure.)

Marketing: DMARC, DKIM SPF, DNS, what? It's 2025, an #AI spam filter should know I just purchased a great new domain name for our marketing department so the rest of the world should know it's our legit email I'm sending surely?
So, business pivot, we're going to sell AI generated research findings (from off the shelf LMMs) to clients with the USP being to help them reduce carbon and save energy. Sure, they could also save money by doing the very same things themselves but we won't say that in the pitch of course. Our service is the passionate people & talent of constructing the industry leading AI prompt their existing staff just won't be able to handle!
This just reminded me of our marketing's desperation to "reach out" & get the faintest whiff of a potential lead, they will ensure the trackers will obediently usher you along all our web sites in the hope a search term will drive a high value client our way in return. That's how #SEO works apparently. https://web-cdn.bsky.app/profile/jathansadowski.com/post/3lrtpwm62es2d
Jathan Sadowski (@jathansadowski.com)

"State-run health care websites around the country, meant to provide a simple way to shop for insurance, have been quietly sending visitors’ sensitive health information to platforms like Google, LinkedIn, and Snapchat" via advertising trackers on the websites. https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2025/06/17/we-caught-4-more-states-sharing-personal-health-data-with-big-tech

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Colleagues looked bemused when I mentioned that we should be actively moving from any US to EU based web services. It's not just me is it! https://european-alternatives.eu/
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