05.08.08Ploc Propaganda
We’ve had this poster sitting around on our file system for a while now, and thought it would be nice to show you guys. Enjoy.
30.07.08We’re Brave
We’re just been featured in a list of ‘32 Examples of Websites with a Brave colour Scheme‘ over at Function.
We’ve been described as having “Excellent contrast between the dark and very vibrant blue”
Thanks guys!
21.07.08Office Update
It has been a while since we’ve updated the blog, we’ve just been so busy!
We’ve got a large number of projects on the go at the moment, and can’t wait until some of them get finished up so we can show you guys.
Our website is still getting lots of recognition after being launched months ago, being featured in more galleries, and also making it onto Dzine Blogs ‘27 Dark Website Designs‘ which showcases “27 examples of beautiful dark website designs for web design inspiration”. So thanks guys!
Life in the office is good (when we get some summer weather!), we’ve been listening to The Subways latest album, which we’re all lovin’.
We’ve also taken far to many trips into town to have a ‘Mi-shake‘, those things are addictive!
With the soon to be released new X-files movie, we’ve all gone a bit X-files mad. After catching the odd episode on TV back when it first came out (1993?!), we never really gave it that much thought. But after getting the whole 9 seasons we’re starting to see why it was so popular! Why wouldn’t it be? IGN has written 10 great things about the X-files. Bring on the nightmares!
That is it! I’ve kept it short. Just letting you guys know we’re still around. Expect some more informative articles in the future.
18.06.08Business Cards
We finally got our new business cards! Printed on 300 GSM Silk Card, with a nice Spot UV on the back. Lovely.
So lovely in fact, they’ve even made it onto Faveup, a site that showcases inspirational design. Wehey!
20.05.08MediaCamp Bucks ‘08
Ploc Media recently attended MediaCamp Bucks ‘08
“MediaCamp Bucks ‘08 - An un-conference digging on advertising, blogging, web-dev, branding, new and social media”
We attended a couple of talks in the morning and learned some very helpful information regarding social media and its importance in the future on of the web, as well as meeting some very interesting characters!
Social Media is fast becoming a very important way of marketing your business online, and we’re looking in to all the possibilities here to help our clients keep up with the ever-changing online world.
So what exactly is Social Media?
Trying to put it simply, social media uses emerging technology so that people can share content, personal opinions, perspectives and insights over the Internet.
Some of these ’social media’ websites are among the most popular in the world right now, these include.
Social Networking
Websites that allows you to create a personal profile and then chat, discuss and share information with others such as friends and family. The leaders in this area are MySpace, Bebo and Facebook.
Wikis
Wikis are websites that allow you to create, edit and share information about a subject or topic. A great example of this is Wikipedia, no doubt the most famous of the Wikis.
Video Sharing
Video-sharing sites like YouTube allow you to upload your own videos to the Internet and share them with anyone and everyone. Everything from personal opinions to viral marketing videos can be found here.
Photo Sharing
Photo-sharing websites like Flickr allow users to upload pictures and images to a personal account which can then be viewed by web users the world over.
News Aggregation
News aggregators provide a list of the latest news stories published by users from a range of different websites. Digg, for instance, is one of the web’s largest news aggregators with one of the most dedicated communities.
Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking sites allow users to publicly bookmark web pages they find valuable in order to share them with other internet users. Delicious is a popular example.
Presence Applications
Websites that allow you to post micro blog-like posts to announce what you are currently doing. Twitter is a good example of a presence app.
Social media is evolving so fast, the examples above are just some of the more popular sites at the moment, but many of these formats have been used on smaller more specialist sites sticking to one genre, a video sharing site just for website design for example, or a news aggregator just for sport. Not only is social media evolving, it is breeding too, creating hybrids of any of the above mentioned applications.
So where can you find Ploc in all of this? Well here we go:
Ploc on Myspace
Ploc on Facebook
Ploc on Twitter
Ploc on Flickr
If you’re interested in attending a similar event, there is a MediaCamp London ‘08 on the 5th of July, maybe we’ll see you there.