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Corporate social responsibility. Sounds grand doesn’t it? For big companies, corporate philanthropy can be measured in the millions of pounds.  But what if you’re a small business? Or an individual? Is it possible to make a difference? I’m happy to say that it is. This will be my 10th Byte Night. Since 2002 I’ve slept out for one night a year so that others less fortunate than me don’t have to. Me, a board member? The first four years, I slept as part

Well it’s the time of year when our thoughts turn to Byte night and this years event looks like it will be bigger and better than ever. We’ve got a new section on the website to help raise awareness and give people a central place to come to find out what’s happening with the Compound Media team this year. We’ve also had some new business cards printed (see above) which we think will be a great conversation starter! If you’d like to be involved but ar

Today, users are consuming on-line content on an ever increasing range of devices.  The relatively new discipline of “responsive design” has a lot to offer publishers.  By designing a series of flexible grids, content can be dynamically formatted to automatically work on the widest range of screen sizes from the largest desktop displays through to the smallest mobile handsets.  Developing sites in this way, although initially more time consuming, creates a future proof platform fo

Today Compound Media is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with KentonFrank Ltd. Kenton and I have know each other for a long time now and have been working together on an ad-hoc basis for several months on different projects. Both our organisations have very strong strategic and project management experience in their specific markets. Complementary skills, shared philosophy By joining forces, we bring together Compound Media’s expertise in web UI and architecture a

  Last years Byte night was the biggest yet, raising over £180,000 more than in 2010, a massive achievement considering the challenging times we find ourselves in. Over 800 people slept out at events in London, Cambridge, Thames Valley and Edinburgh. We were once again at the London event and a great night was had by all with the weather being kind to us so we were cold but not wet. We’re already looking forward to next years event, if you want to see what it was like t

Over the past few months we have been working with Farrer & Co, one of the UK’s most prestigious law firms to update and enhance their web presence. While Farrers have had a web presence for many years, the previous version of it’s website had been built more than 5 years ago. However, all websites need to be refreshed and updated periodically. The style was “of its time” but had become dated. It didn’t properly reflect the more modern image of th

Do your target audience have smartphones? Are you already providing them with high quality print products? Do you want to connect with them digitally?  You should be thinking about using QR Codes. What are QR codes? Surprisingly, they have been around since 1994, originating in Japan to be used for tracking automotive parts.  QR stands for “Quick Response” and the best way to think of them are as printed versions of hyperlinks. We’re all familiar with the way hyp

This article is the second part of a series exploring how publishers might use QR Codes to extend the real world of print to the digital universe. If you haven’t already, you probably ought to read the first part of the article before starting here. If you scanned the QR Code to get to this page, welcome back! Easy wasn’t it? Opportunities for customer publishers The most obvious opportunity for publishers is to use codes within magazine articles to link back to associ

We’ve been working hard over the past few months in order to bring you an exciting new concept in on-line publishing – “Jump suite”. For the past four years, we’ve been helping customer publishers create high quality, content rich websites for their clients.  We’ve had some great successes but it’s often been a struggle to get past the initial phase of the on-line companion site. That’s why we created Jump suite.  It’s a fully