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- Online and Digital
Everyday, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data. In fact, 90% of the data sloshing around the world today was created in the last two years.
It comes from everywhere: social media posts, digital photos and videos posted online, online purchases, debit, credit and rewards card transactions, mobile phones, GPS signals, CCTV and the countless other highways of digital traffic. Much of this data is captured, stored and rifled through by data analysts.
- Online and Digital
We are excited to announce that our latest smartphone app has hit the iPhone app store and Google's Play store for Android.
The ETU RDO App keeps contracting members of the Electrical Trades Union up-to-date with their rostered days off, wage rates, the latest weather conditions and contact details for the Union. We've already had some great feedback from members, as you would expect. After all, who doesn't love a day off work!
- Online and Digital
- Social
In the month of March this year, 15.7 million Australians spent 24 billion minutes online, viewing 39 billion pages.
Whilst web users were almost exactly divided according to gender, there were some surprises. It looks like my daughter and the rest of her 18-year-old YouTube and Facebook hogs were outviewed by their mothers and fathers.
- Design
It would seem that the more complex or elaborate a font, the more likely a reader is to value the message it delivers.
New Scientist magazine reports an experiment where information using fonts requiring increased effort to read was more likely to be retained than the same message using simpler fonts.
- Online and Digital
An object lesson in website vulnerability was learned the hard way by drink distributor Dave Robinson.
Having secured the rights to US aphrodisiac drink Turn On, Robinson was busying himself signing up Australian distributors. He was using his website as a central resource and selling tool until hackers turned him off, then demanded a $5000 ransom.