Sarah from our Communications Team has been writing this week about an article she is submitting to .Net magazine about a topic that I find particularly interesting: Should libel law treat social media differently from other published work? We’ve spoken about this quite a lot and it’s interesting the different thoughts that arise during the [...]

As I’m sure most of you are aware, Movember is a yearly event whereby men around the world grow moustaches to raise money for charities such as The Prostate Cancer Charity. The event which reportedly started in Australia in 2001, has now become a worldwide phenomenon endorsed by multi-national brands, celebrities and is attracting a [...]

As it’s Friday, we’re going to offer a tip and a treat today. Unless you’ve been fairly well hidden under a rock, you’ll probably know that tickets for Take That went on sale earlier this week. Naturally, those lucky online businesses who sell the tickets have been ready and prepared for the onslaught of fans [...]

Finally we can reveal the big news…UKFast is a 100% carbon neutral hosting company! This means that not only our company itself, but also all of the solutions we offer to our clients, are entirely carbon neutral – free of charge and starting now! We have been pushing boundaries with regards to our reduced impact [...]

I recently came across an article in Mashable about Corona Light’s new campaign whereby people can use a Facebook App to upload a picture of themselves to a Times Square billboard. This recent campaign by Corona Light is in my opinion, an excellent example of how to use a joined up marketing approach and reminds [...]

This week, my blog is being hijacked by members of the team eager to give their take on customer service. I’ve tried to stop them, but the floodgates have opened! So today, it’s Jonathan from the marketing team… In the last few years, the popularity of social networking sites such as Twitter has been well [...]

It is not enough to have satisfied customers. At UKFast we want Raving Fans. Imagine people telling their friends over a drink how great we are. To drive this vision and find more fans we are using National Customer Service week to focus our efforts and passion. I am amazed that more companies do not [...]

So, you’ve had your new ecommerce website build, chosen your provider, deployed your servers and are ready to go live. Now, you just need to know what is happening with your site at all times. Is it working? OK, but is it working properly? How do you know for sure? The R&D team here at [...]

In March this year, Zurich Insurance Plc was forced by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to confess publicly to the loss of 46,000 records containing customer’s personal information. The revelation came just days before the ICO acquired new powers to impose up to a £500,000 fine for a data breach. However, if the people at [...]

Research shows that many employees would be happy to make a copy of private company information, just in case it comes in handy at a new job. The survey, carried out by Texas-based security company SailPoint Technologies Inc., questioned over 1,000 UK workers. The research shows that 53% of workers would take some company property [...]