Over the years, Dmac Media has regularly welcomed the enthusiasm and skills of interns into the office team. As a college town, there is a wealth of talent from the Atlantic Technological University and locals schools and colleges who seek internships as part of their learning curriculum. We have always found this to be a […]
Read more...Many workers will be returning to their offices after a prolonged period of working from home. The transition back to the work environment may well present its own challenges. This does not just mean the move from slippers to high heels or from sloppy dressing gown to shirt and tie. Apparently, it takes about 21 […]
Read more...Shopping carts that the buyer wishes they had abandoned. It should not be surprising that online impulse buying has increased during the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns, but the extent of that increase is quite surprising. One survey shows that impulse spending is up by 18 to 20% on pre- COVID-19 figures. One in five shoppers […]
Read more...Keep in touch with Online games and more, whether together or apart this Christmas Its been a weird year. But we have heard enough about all that. Its Christmas and its time to have fun and make memories with families and friends. Sure, we are all tired of Zoom calls and WhatsApp conversations that lag […]
Read more...Love it or loath it, working remotely is a real fact of life for many Irish employees. At Dmac Media, we look at the joys and the miseries that remote working has brought to our own staff and take a look at the practical aspects of continued working from home, the tax breaks, the isolation […]
Read more...Social behaviours have changed significantly since the first time we heard that Corona was something much more sinister than a Mexican beer. Way back in a different time that was only few months ago, we thought all meetings were up front, personal and judged on that one firm grip handshake. Now, we chat on Zoom, […]
Read more...In a break from the norm, in today’s blog we take a look at some of the cool titbits and features on Google that you might not be aware of. Google is notorious for marking special occasions and key dates from history in search results by adding special features to such information. Typically known as […]
Read more...At last we are making the best use of the technology available and passing up on unnecessary travel, unnecessary face to face meetings and embracing the video chat as part of our daily working lives. Of course, Skyping people around the globe had been embraced decades ago and is part of the routine of many […]
Read more...A pandemic hit. The country closed. We were advised to work from home and that is exactly what thousands of us, who still had work, did. Ikea ran out of home office desks. Broadband groaned under the pressure while slippers and pyjamas became office attire. Finally, the nation understood what the Green Party had been […]
Read more...Working from home for the first time? Here is some timely advice from an industry that has been doing this for years. The circumstances surrounding the move of whole nations to home offices are appalling, surreal and catastrophic, and we are reminded of the disaster of Covid-19 at every moment of the day. But here […]
Read more...While we generally try to focus on all types of digital hints, tips and tricks here on the Dmac Blog, this one is a bit of a break from the norm. Why? I hear you ask! Well, this one is just a little special in that it is the 100th blog we have posted, so […]
Read more...Tis the season of goodwill to all and time to celebrate with joy, jingling tills and happy laughter. With that in mind, here are some easy ways to add a festive feel to your website for Christmas, not forgetting to link to all your Social Media platforms for full effect. Here are some bright and […]
Read more...You need to review your passwords now. Many of us are lazy about our passwords. We are lazy, we are complacent and we are highly likely to be hacked. This does not mean that some spotty faced genius teenager wearing an ‘anonymous’ mask is hiding in a dimly lit cellar, spending all his days cracking […]
Read more...The best thing about an Irish Christmas is that special ‘down time’ after the Big Day. Those easy days when all the hype is over and the turkey bones are picked clean. Unlike most of mainland Europe and our crazy American cousins, we don’t rush out to the Boxing Day Sales or hurry immediately to […]
Read more...As disciplines go, you can be forgiven for believing there is very little in common between the sport of rugby and digital marketing in 2018. After all what has 15 brutish men battling over the forlorn oval ball got to with driving online sales and enquiries anyway? Well from my experience, more than you might […]
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