Things didn't start too well, if I'm honest, as getting to Umbraco's annual developer conference CodeGarden, held in Odense Denmark, proved something of an ordeal...…
We're celebrating our 20th year with 20 ideas from the last 20 years.…
We've grown again! Read about our new bd2 recruit and the latest achievements of our digital apprentice.…
Beyond Wigan Pier Premiere…
And so the journey begins.…
With just over a month to go until the much anticipated GDPR comes into effect, we look at where to start and what it means for marketing.…
"We have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can't then we don't deserve to serve you." Five days after the Cambridge Analytica story broke, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg comes clean.…
The 'Invest in Wigan' Insider event with Ian Lenagan [Wigan Warriors Owner], Donna Hall [Wigan Council Chief Exec], Chris Shaw [Urban Splash], Gary Speakman [CFO Shearings], Duncan Sutherland [Director Sigma Capital] discussing impact of HS2 and inward investment on Wigan, the town centre and Wigan Pier Quarter.…
We've written a series of blogs about the ills of social media which has now hit the front pages following last night's Channel 4 News exposé of Cambridge Analytica's possible misuse of user data procured from Facebook to allegedly influence electoral campaigns in various countries including the US.…
Video interview with Consultant Clinical Psychologist Dr Warren Larkin who is the Clinical Lead for the Department of Health Adverse Childhood Experiences. Warren is also Visiting Professor at Sunderland University where he is working with the Faculties of Public and Population Health and Mental Health to develop their research programme and training curricula for Public Health and Mental Health professionals.…
Links between academia and industry are critical to address the skills gap. We try to take every opportunity to make a contribution and were more than happy to support Wigan and Leigh College's Careers Day with a lecture to over 50 design and digital under graduates.…
"The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing good quality search to users. We expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of users." Wrote Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in an academic article for Stanford University in 1998.…
Hewlett’s first ever monograph celebrates a collection of his illustrations from the Tank Girl comics to his collaboration with Damon Albarn and the art-pop concept Gorillaz…
There's a certain kind of symmetry in that, on the same day bd2 was advising the designers of tomorrow at Standish High School's Mock Interview Conference, we were also attending Manchester Digital's Skills Festival debating the shortage of skills needed today.…
George Orwell's seminal book 'The Road to Wigan Pier' celebrates its 80th Anniversary in 2018. A Civic Reception for his son, Richard Blair, took place on Thursday 1st February in The Mayor's Parlour...…
There was barely a news bulletin last week that didn’t feature a report from the World Economic Forum at Davos, attended by many of the world’s leading and political leaders. One of the more interesting speeches came from renown investor and philanthropist George Soros.…
Meet our new Digital Consultant, David. With over 10 years’ experience covering video production, and formally head of media and film at a North West Higher Education College, he certainly knows his stuff!…
Now that we’re settled in to 2018, it’s time to look at what we can expect from digital marketing this year.…
This year’s ‘bd2 Christmas do’ saw us return to The Low Wood Hotel located on the edge of Lake Windermere for the first time since 2005, which was our initial foray into making a weekend of it. We’ve…
The growing backlash against the ills of social media generally, and Facebook and Twitter specifically, hit the front pages today following comments from a former Facebook Vice President Chamath...…
