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Discovering Google Home

I recently spent a month with the Google Home. Advertised as a “hands free smart speaker”, the Home is intended to provide assistance by:

In line with our rapid growth Innovation Visual have moved offices again. Although we loved our offices in Eashing and enjoyed co-existing with the BrightStarr team the rapid growth of both companies meant that space was becoming very tight. With Innovation Visual taking on more clients and staff and BrightStarr's Unily Cloud Intranet Solution taking off globally more square footage was needed.

We are proud to have become Silver Corporate supporters of the Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Trust. The ARC Trust, as they are also known, undertakes vital work in the conservation of the UK's reptiles and amphibians through a variety of programmes. We became aware of them through their work close to our offices, and on Tim's offroad bike commute, in Witley Common. Their work in Surrey on the sandy common lands is really important in protecting lowland heathland that is home to species such as the smooth snake and the rare sand lizard (Lacerta agilis).

Digital marketing is a popular career choice for ambitious, bright people who want to work in an exciting and ever-changing industry. The rewards for those that are successful include great remuneration, opportunities to become known in the industry, getting to work with and for exciting companies and making a measurable difference to those organisations that they work for and with. For some building their career can also mean the opportunity for travel and remote working. Being a well rewarded, exciting career also means that it isn’t easy to break into and also to make those all important early steps to build a career in digital marketing.

Happy Birthday Cycling! Today sees the 200th anniversary of the very first bicycle ride, by one Baron Karl von Drais, in Mannheim, Germany. Legend has it that on that day, Herr Drais revealed his new invention to an expectant crowd - a two-wheeled vehicle propelled by its rider called “The Draisienne” – before setting off on an 8 mile round trip which he apparently completed in just under an hour. And thus, cycling was born.

Google announced the launch of new tools and functionalities in the Marketing Next Conference that took place in San Francisco on 23rd May 2017. Some of them will be accessible right now and worldwide while some others will only be available in beta for a few lucky marketers. Here’s a quick overview of these new fancy tools.