Love Facebook? Love LouderVoice?
Then why not become a fan of LouderVoice over on Facebook. We’re thinking of calling it LouderFace 🙂 You’ll get all our latest updates (but not too many!) and you can tell us what you think of each new release.
Irish Web Awards Nominations Open
Lots of categories, so head on over and nominate your favourite sites. Voting closes this Friday.
it@cork Leaders Award Nominations Open
Make your nominations in the following categories: High Potential Start-Up award – recognises a leading company in early stage business planning and execution; High Growth Company award – recognises a leading established company driving forward in international markets; Sustained Excellence award – recognises an established company with a record of consistent growth and profitability R&D Project award recognises a leading innovative technology research project within industry or third level college; IT Department award recognises an IT department that can clearly demonstrate business benefit from IT project implementations; Green Technology award recognises a company that has implemented or developed technology solutions to achieve reductions in energy use Excellence in Education award – recognises the efforts of an individual, group or school to engage with technology for education purposes.
Consumer reviews and personal recommendations are as important as trusted brand reviews for Internet consumers
We’ve seen it growing year by year but the latest Nielsen research really drives it home. There is a great piece about it over on Computerworld. Consumer reviews and personal recommendations are as important as trusted brand reviews for Internet consumers. The Nielsen survey, the largest of its kind, shows that 90 percent of Internet consumers worldwide trust recommendations from people they know, while 70 percent trust consumer opinions posted online.
LouderVoice at Facebook Garage Ireland 2
We had a fantastic time at the second Irish Facebook Garage in Dublin on Thursday. A packed room of approx 150 people with a wide range of backgrounds heard 5 speakers cover a variety of topics over the space of 2.5 hours. There will be full coverage including video and all the PPTs available over on Web2Ireland at some point next week. In the meantime, here are some screenshots of Conor’s live demo of the LouderVoice reviews widget + Facebook Connect in action.
LouderVoice nominated in The Europas
We’re absolutely delighted to be nominated in the inaugural Europa Awards in the category of Best Web Application or Service (EMEA). The Europas are the Techcrunch Europe technology innovation awards for European tech companies and the ceremony will be held on July 9 in London. Public voting is now open in all categories. Major congratulations also go to Joe Drumgoole of Putplace who is nominated in the Best Startup Founder(s) (EMEA) category (Vote here) and Decisions for Heroes which is nominated in the Best Social Innovation (which benefits society, EMEA) category.
LouderVoice Podcast interview by Krishna De
Krishna De of Biz Growth Live did an extended interview with CEO Conor all about ratings and reviews. If you want to hear a lot of valuable information about why reviews make sense for your business, have a listen. Thanks Krishna!
Ultra Simple Mini-Reviews on Twitter
LouderVoice was the first reviews company to realise the importance of Twitter. That’s why we’re the people behind @review which we launched in June 2007. Since then we’ve played and tweaked mini-reviews based on user feedback. Following more research we realised that many people were doing mini-reviews using the simple method of just adding #review on to the end of the tweet. This was also the preferred approach in our recent poll.
LouderVoice Reviews for Google Android
Yesterday evening we uploaded the first public beta of our Google Android mobile application to the Android Market. This is the first Irish Android application and one of the very first reviewing applications on the platform. You’ll have to patiently wait for the launches of the HTC Magic and Samsung I7500 before  most Irish people can try it out. Anyone living in countries where Android is already live can install it now.
Bubble Brothers goes live with the new LouderVoice Reviews Widget
We’re pleased as punch to announce that our brand new customer reviews widget has just gone live on the Bubble Brothers wine site. Julian, their Wine 2.0 guru, has always been at the forefront of social media adoption and the addition of our widget complements all of their other online activities beautifully. The key thing about the widget is the ease of implementation. One line of code was added to the Bubble Brothers product page template (they use Ecommerce Templates for their site), a few minor logo tweaks later and they were up and running.