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Ballymena, when your work is remarkable

by Ally Simpson | Oct 23, 2018 | Featured Post, Local Business | 0 |

When your ideas are spreading, when your work is remarkable, when your organization has built a...

Facebook and your data

by Ally Simpson | Mar 26, 2018 | Connecting Communities, Featured Post, Local Business | 0 |

By now you may have read about or at least spotted a news headline with the words, Cambridge...

Ballymena needs smaller tribes

by Ally Simpson | Mar 9, 2017 | Connecting Communities, Featured Post | 0 |

Yes, I think it’s okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It’s okay to say...

Your Brand Advocate

by Ally Simpson | Feb 14, 2017 | Connecting Communities, Featured Post, Local Business | 0 |

Is anyone in Ballymena advocating for your business and brand. It’s not a new trend but,...

Fake or Real on the web

by Ally Simpson | Feb 3, 2017 | Connecting Communities, Lifestyle | 0 |

Massive collections of fake accounts are lying dormant on Twitter, suggests research. The largest...

Spend the time it takes

by Ally Simpson | Jan 25, 2017 | Connecting Communities, Featured Post | 0 |

Spend the time it takes to do social media properly, or don’t even bother being there. It’s a...

Five things your Ballymena Business must address

by Ally Simpson | Oct 17, 2016 | Local Business | 0 |

We posted these five quick tips in July – here. The biggest hurdle for many people in...

The online-self that we have created

by Ally Simpson | Sep 23, 2016 | Lifestyle | 0 |

When I started to blog in 2004 the web seemed like a very different place to what it is now. There...

New website for local business McCarroll McConnell

by Ally Simpson | Sep 22, 2016 | Ballymena News, Featured Post, Local Business | 0 |

We were excited this week to see a new website for local business McCarroll McConnell being...

Essentials for your small business

by Ally Simpson | Jul 6, 2016 | Featured Post, Local Business | 0 |

When you set out to open up your business, you will hear lots of opinions and ideas. No matter what your business does, there are some absolute essentials for your small business. You might not be able to do them all at once or...

Focus on conversation

by Ally Simpson | May 27, 2016 | Connecting Communities | 0 |

This morning I read an interesting essay here called Death to the Mass – Media must rebuild its business around relevance and value, not volume. The title caught my eye because a central aim of Ballymena Today is...