That was the year that was

As the New Year beckons we’ve trawled through the archives of our internal blog to bring you some of our favourite posts from the last 12 months.

January

We all really liked the new banner ad for the Mini.

Benj’s New Year’s resolution was about to go out the window!

Benj burger

February

Have you installed Web2.0 on your website yet?

Our favourite copywriter (Lindsay Camp) had a word or two to say about straplines.

March

Chris Dyer claimed to unearth the first ever banner ad, created in 1994 by AT&T.

AT&T banner

April

With Web 2.0 successfully installed you’ll be wanting a blog on your site. We came across a search engine dedicated to blogs. Use it to find out what the “blogosphere” is saying about your brand.

May

We were pretty chuffed with the site we launched for Dormens this month, but we have to take our hats off to the guys who created this site www.gettheglass.com

June

This viral campaign for the Royal Navy impressed us all.

July

Can you believe that it was only 5 months ago that you probably heard about Facebook for the first time? Social networking was undoubtedly the phenomenon of the year…but will it be another passing fad or will we all still be updating our Facebook profiles this time next yet?

August

Crikey, there were only four posts in August! Was everyone on holiday? Or were they just enjoying a leisurely dip?

Bonkers!

September

How many “friends” had you managed to accumulate in Facebook by September?

Polly and Laura thought we needed a team building exercise. The result was this cinematic masterpiece:

October

We liked this viral made by Bristol based Rubberductions:

Microsoft took a 1.6% stake in Facebook for $240m, valuing the company at $15bn. Anyone remember boo.com?

November

The iPhone arrives in the UK…and Jon had to get one (for “research purposes” obviously).

December

Just when you thought you were getting to grips with 2007's tech jargon, along comes a new batch for 2008. Impress your colleagues by reading this article on the latest buzzwords. My favourites: "Search moptimization", "Friendiligence" and "Shamsparency".

Posted 10 December 2007 by Chris Thurling