Old doors go viral
Many companies spend vast amounts on viral marketing campaigns. We appear to have stumbled on one by accident. Well, part by accident, then we mercilessly exploited it. Very Island 2000!
Ian decided to post a picture to his personal Flickr site of the doors to our lock up at The Gatehouse, our old offices. It managed to creep out onto Reddit then hit the front page of BoingBoing and turned up on Digg too. At this point I must admit to only having a passing familiarity with these sites (shame on me, what kind of nerd am I?) but as the hit count at Flickr mounted I realised we needed to link Ian’s pic to the Island 2000 site. Result? Half a months worth of site visits in less than 2 days! (and our site is fairly well used anyway)
Well, weird is always popular on the internet, and we have all flavours on offer here. So, if you have arrived via Ian’s flickr posts, welcome. There is much more madness to behold, please browse the blog, <plug> and don’t forget, all this madness comes from positive charitable endeavour, so if you want to say thanks, why not joing our Friends scheme? </ plug> (Just trying to demonstrate I really am a nerd, even if I don’t do digg, read reddit or brave boingboing.) If you didn’t understand the < > bit, then go and learn html.
Many companies spend vast amounts on viral marketing campaigns. We appear to have stumbled on one by accident. Well, part by accident, then we mercilessly exploited it. Very Island 2000!
Ian decided to post a picture to his personal Flickr site of the doors to our lock up at The Gatehouse, our old offices. It managed to creep out onto Reddit then hit the front page of BoingBoing and turned up on Digg too. At this point I must admit to only having a passing familiarity with these sites (shame on me, what kind of nerd am I?) but as the hit count at Flickr mounted I realised we needed to link Ian’s pic to the Island 2000 site. Result? Half a months worth of site visits in less than 2 days! (and our site is fairly well used anyway)
Well, weird is always popular on the internet, and we have all flavours on offer here. So, if you have arrived via Ian’s flickr posts, welcome. There is much more madness to behold, please browse the blog, <plug> and don’t forget, all this madness comes from positive charitable endeavour, so if you want to say thanks, why not joing our Friends scheme? </ plug> (Just trying to demonstrate I really am a nerd, even if I don’t do digg, read reddit or brave boingboing.) If you didn’t understand the < > bit, then go and learn html.
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