Last night Facebook announced that it had over 500 000 000 users.

Some facts that have come out of this are that: 

8% of the entire world are on Facebook Metro
Facebook was valued at $11.5 billion The Telegraph
More than 150 million log in through their phone The Guardian

While Facebook is one of a kind, hard to surpass, if you need a social network site for your project or market then please get in touch.  TalkWeb has an excellent record for producing fun, exciting social applications customised for your market.

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It's all well and good spending money on a beautiful website, but will it make your company more successful?  Here at Talkweb we pride ourselves on creating concise, effective, fun applications that make the users experience pleasurable.

But how do we do this?

There are many things to consider when creating a website or web application:

Is your site Search Engine Optimised (SEO'd)?
When creating a website, you need to be aware of 'keywords' and phrases that are relevent to your business sector.  What are people going to be searching for when they are looking for products and services that you provide?  If you do not have a website that can be easily 'spidered' then it will simply drift in the internet ether, never being seen as relevent or important enough to be shown on search engine results pages, with the consequence that you will never pick up passing trade.

Do you have a good Content Management System (CMS)?
Are you spending hours updating each of your web pages, wasting time on the administration when you could be concentrating on sales and marketing?  An effective CMS system will save you valuable time and lead to a more consistent message in your site as well as enabling fantastic features that you may not have been able to create yourself.

Is your website design engaging?
It is always worth bringing on an impartial person to have a browse through your website and give you criticism and praise about what works and what doesn't for the user experience.  If your website is falling short for someone you have asked to look through, then think about the customer who has the choice of hundreds of companies across the web.  Will they choose your site?  Contact us for a free website evaluation and find out!

Check out your website analytics.
Are you aware of your website's analytics?  Have a look and see which pages are holding people's attention, and then create more like them!  Where are your customers coming from and on which pages are they leaving you and wandering off into the internet ether?  All this is essential information to tailor your website for your customers.

These are just a few things that we at Talkweb take into consideration when we look at a new project.  Now that you know give us a call and find out what we have done and how we can work our magic on your website!

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TalkWebSolutions have finished their website for the BBC.  This site can be found at www.projectcanvas.info. 

We developed our CMS Platform so that it would disseminate their content to the social web-sphere with little effort from the administration team. The site uses our CMS system so that the BBC editors can quickly and easily update content on the site. What is unique is that with one click the information they add can get pushed out to many social media websites such as Twitter, Delicious, Linkedin and Facebook. We also made an aggregated reader via Goggle reader which pulls in content from several sites, if the news from these feeds in relevant all the BBC team have to do is promote the store and it's pushed onto the website. The removes the requirement to scour several websites find the news as well as the need to re purpose the content.

We also created a secure access portal for their partners to share content online as well as managing the hosting of this site.

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TalkWebSolutions has been working with ArtReview magazine for a few years now and Daniel from ArtReview comments on the way that we work:

'TalkWebSolutions act as our outsourced web development team and offer us the combination of technical expertise and flexibility that we need. As a rapidly growing business in  fast changing business environment we rely on suppliers that can change and adapt to our needs quickly with the minimum of fuss - TalkWebSolutions achieve this for us.'

To find out what TalkWebSolutions can do for you please contact us!

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The BBC have commissioned TalkWebSolutions to create an information website for their new project, known as Project Canvas

Project Canvas is a proposed partnership between the BBC, ITV, C4, Five, BT and Talk Talk to build an open internet-connected TV platform, subject to BBC Trust approval.

The partners intend to form a venture to promote the platform to consumers and the content, service and developer community.

Like the UK's current free-to-air brands Freeview and Freesat - a consumer brand (not canvas) will be created, and licensed to device manufacturers, and internet service providers owners who meet the specifications.

This site will be a CMS platform that would disseminate content to the social web-sphere with little effort from the admin team.

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TalkWebSolutions has created a brilliant, customised e-card and animation for their customers featuring the office mascot - a rescued greyhound called Tenzin.

Get in touch with us today for your own customised e-card featuring characters and words of your choice or of our suggestion. 

Email us today on: xmas@talkwebsolutions.co.uk

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TalkWebSolutions has taken a green IT maturity test through Accenture Green Maturity Assessment and scored four out of five.

Through this we were informed that our organization has progressed to a mature Green IT level. This is because most, if not all, projects include assessments around environmental impact and senior staff are incentivized to improve the efficiency of the organization.

There is still more that we can do however to reach five out of five.  This includes automating monitoring and reporting, collecting performance data from systems and using advanced analytics to understand where additional performance can be achieved.

TalkWebSolutions is committed to achieving this and creating a greener world for all of us.

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Collections Trust and Brighton-based online consultancy TalkWebSolutions have announced a new partnership to re-launch the award-winning Collections Link service for museum, archive and library professionals.

Launched in 2006, Collections Link has become the leading source of Collections Management information. Following extensive consultation with the UK and international Collections Management community, the service is being redeveloped to provide a platform for practitioners to connect, share their knowledge and learn from the experiences of their peers.

Nick Poole, Collections Trust Chief Executive, commented:

“We are hugely excited about this next phase in the evolution of Collections Link. Collections Management is a global community, and it has never been more important to demonstrate that we can work together both to achieve greater value for the public and to deliver more efficient management. To achieve our vision for Collections Management, we need a partner at the frontline of social media, and TalkWebSolutions is the perfect choice.”

Nick Tong, TalkWebSolutions CTO commented:

'Collections Trust is a forward- thinking organisation, and we are very excited to be working with them and developing a system to match their vision.  We are developing cutting edge features which will not only make their site stand out, but also stay current for longer, allowing important information to be disseminated to users easily and more efficiently.'

The new Collections Link site will go live in Spring 2010 with a host of new services including tools to help practitioners connect with expert groups and networks; a subscribers’ area to help users find all the Collections Management advice and information they need; and an enhanced database of training and professional development opportunities. If you would like to help ensure that Collections Link meets the needs of the Collections Management community, you can volunteer to test the site as it evolves.

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TalkWebSolutions has been working for to create a great new website for Medcraff & Partners at Brokers4Sale. Brokers4Sale is where buyers and sellers of IFA and Wealth Management companies connect.

TalkWebSolutions has created a very effective members area for buyers and sellers to find out a bit more about each other and build up their profiles.  Every time a seller is registered, member buyers that have signaled an interest in that location are notified and invited to request additional information.

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TalkWebSolutions has been working with Informa to create a new site to inspire distance learning for highly specialised and bespoke professional postgraduate courses. We have also helped IIR with their website for the IASC Foundation conference, a conference to encourage businesses all over the world to converge with International Financial Reporting Standards.

TalkWebSolutions has provided excellent support throughout this process and if any problems arise within the website or any changes need making TWS is there with consistent and optimum support through a state-of-the-art issue reporting system.

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