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Google+, Social Media and SEO

Google recently unveiled their new Facebook competitor, Google+ – they are currently in a closed testing phase – though you can get invites if you know the right people (like us for example). It has a number of great features, along with a clean, simplified design (you may have noticed Google and GMail’s design changing recently to match).

Only time will tell if it’s as popular as Facebook or Twitter, but if anyone can do it, it’s Google. In fact, according to a recent study Google+ acheived over 10 million users in a matter of days.

New Website: Hear the Children

Hear the Children provides specialised therapy, free-of-charge, to hearing impaired babies and pre-schoolers.

Orion provided Hear the Children with a free-of-charge content managed site, so they can continue doing their great work with hearing impaired babies and pre-schoolers.

It’s just a nice, warm, baby-smelling story all round…sorry, got a bit clucky there.

Richer web ads

There are normal flash ads on the web, and then there are rich media ads. No doubt, you’ve noticed them on sites like SMH and NineMSN, but you might not have known what they were called. These are the ads that show you a video on roll-over, or appear over the top of content, or even—in the case of an Avatar ad I saw recently—grab the whole bloody website, and shove it down in simulated 3D so they can show their own page above it. That’s cheeky! But it makes you notice and, as Ben would say, go “Ooo!”