Indolent is a blog maintained by Mike Teasdale, Planning Director of Harvest Digital

It is a collection of thoughts and reactions to events in the digital marketing space. All too often that means discussing the latest machinations of Google and Microsoft - but rather than getting too carried away with the global power plays, I try to focus on the impact of changes on the digital marketing plans of typical UK companies.

It's also a place that I try to get my thoughts in order on some of the weightier issues we are grappling with - here are some examples:

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Where I'm at

February 17, 2009
Search Engine Strategies - I did a quick twenty minute talk on brand bidding policies across the major search engines as part of an IAB workshop.  My slides are up on Slideshare if you're  interested.
Business Design Centre, London
February 18, 2009
Effective Email Marketing: Beyond the Basics - this is my regular session on creative issues around email marketing on this IDM training course.
IDM, Teddington
March 5, 2009
Email marketing - advanced training - I'm sitting in for half a day on this Econsultancy training course in the absence of David Hughes (get well soon!)
BSG House, London
March 11, 2009
Yahoo! 125 Shaftesbury Avenue, London
March 13, 2009
SXSW Interactive - I'm in Texas for the whole of SXSWi with the Chinwag Digital Mission.  I will be speaking on a panel on Saturday morning on Transatlantic Troubleshooting: Getting into Europe's New Media Market along with Mike Butcher and Aleks Krotoski.
Austin, Texas
March 20, 2009
Grosvener Hotel, London
May 11, 2009
The Grand, Brighton

Recent Entries

Want higher click through rate on banners? Sorted!
Maybe more creative like this will sort out the UK’s woefully low average CTRs! Source: Bridge Worldwide 2009: Cannes Cyber…
Click through rate on UK banner advertising amongst lowest in Europe
This month DoubleClick published a useful benchmark of online advertising performance rates across all activity in 2008.  This is pretty…
Firefox grows European market share, whilst UK lags behind
Today’s launch of Firefox 3.5 is the latest shot in the long struggle for domination in the browser market.  The…
Australia – an apology
When I wrote our last company newsletter I added in a throwaway line about Google Wave: Meanwhile Google Wave looks…
Twitter UK celebrity chart – 11th June
Here’s the latest update in our literally all-star celebrity Twitter chart.  Have Coldplay topped the magic one million followers?  You…
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