Posts Tagged ‘Blog’
The Digital Q&A: Richard Bennett
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Every digital agency needs design talent - the girls and boys who, in their distressed denim and obscure japanese t-shirt clad way, turn a client’s vision into something beautiful. So this week we quiz FastWebMedia’s graphic designer/crayon jockey on what it is he does and why he gets to do it on such an expensive computer…Q&A: Stephen O’Malley - Content Director
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
This week we put some questions to Stephen O’Malley. Stephen was one of FastWebMedia’s first ever employees back in the early 1990’s. Having led the way in producing football sites online he is now FastWebMedia’s content director, reponsible for overseeing content for the entire client list as well as media brands owned by FastWebMedia. As his profile page reveals, he likes Manchester United, music and the occasional pint…
Q: What does being a content director entail?
A: It’s mainly about good ideas and bringing them to life digitally, it’s also about website concepts and ensuring we’re giving our customers the very best service.
Q: What do you enjoy about it?
A: The role enables me to have two bases, London and Manchester, which is great. It also never gets boring!
Q: What are the main challenges?
A: Without doubt the advances in technology, which come at an amazing rate, you’ve got to keep your eye firmly on the ball.
Q: What’s the most important thing you’ve learned in your time at Fast Web Media?
A: I’ve learnt good business sense, but most of all i’ve acquired lots of ‘digital’ knowledge.
Q: What are your favourite sites or online applications?
A: Spotify, 4thegame, Red Issue, The Guardian, BBC i-player
Q: Ever googled yourself?
A: Yes, yes I have, however I seem to share my Irish name with a ‘doom metal’ guitarist from the USA who takes all the rankings!
Q: What one buzzphrase would you like to see outlawed from meetings?
A: ‘Thinking outside the box for a moment’
Q: What was the last thing you bought online?
A: A book called ‘Gangs of Manchester’ it’s about street scuttling youth culture in the late 1800s; it’s fascinating , and proves teenagers weren’t product of the 20th Century.
Q: Does offline media still matter to you?
A: I buy the Guardian on a Saturday and the Observer on a Sunday, I haven’t bought a magazine in years. I suspect daily papers will start to disappear in the next two years….
Q: What’s exciting you about digital right now?
A: I’m working on many new projects for new and existing customers, but the recent advances in digital mobile communication are getting most of my attention, it’s like the war between Betamax and VHS in the early eighties.
Hi, We’re Fast Web Media
Thursday, March 12th, 2009Did you know that most professional chefs rarely cook at home? Seriously, they live on wine gums and toast. If you rocked up to Raymond Blanc’s gaff expecting a bit of supper you’d be lucky to be served a bag of crisps.
Things were going in a similar direction here at Fast Web Media – we’d become so obsessed with making web sites for other people we were in danger of forgetting our own online home.
So, we’ve rolled our sleeves up, got to work and the result is a relaunch of www.fastwebmedia.com
You know, even though we’ve been doing this sort of thing since back in the day - back when digital was a type of watch and Rick Astley was an actual worldwide phenomenon, not just a Youtube one - we still get excited about new site launches. When it’s your own site, it’s even more nerve-racking. So we hope fastwebmedia.com tells you everything you want to know about what we do, how we do it, and who we do it for.
Like Rick, we're never gonna let you down
On top of that you can virtually hang out with us by following us on Twitter, contacting us, or reading this blog. It’s here that we’ll post on the issues that matter – cutting edge digital developments, new technologies, the way online media is changing our offline lives, who makes the best brews in the office – the important stuff. Heck, we might even blog about what it means to blog if we’re feeling particularly postmodern one afternoon.
We’ve also devoted a bit of bandwidth to the guys and girls who make Fast Web Media what it is. There are cartoons of us too; maybe not the greatest cartoons ever (Dangermouse, Top Cat and The Racoons are the greatest cartoons ever, in that order) but they’re worth checking out if only to discover which member of staff describes Tony Cascarino as their sporting hero and which oddball doesn’t like coffee.
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