Mike Russell

Mike is co-founder of New Media Europe - obsessed with everything new in media and technology. He's also a founder of audio production company Music Radio Creative.
  • Content Aware Fill in Photoshop

    How to Resize a Photo and Fill White Space

    Here’s how to resize a photo for your blog and even extend it using the great content-aware feature in Photoshop. When creating a blog post the content is always key but having beautiful photos will make a great first impression and draw your reader in. This works well when you...
  • Using a conference app

    How to Use an Event or Conference App

    Today, I investigate the power of an event or conference app. How to best use the app while you’re at the event. Along with best practices for promoting the app if you’re the event organiser....
  • How to Tag Friends on a Facebook Post

    When you’re doing something great sometimes you’ve got to let people know about it. That’s where tagging comes in handy. You should tag your friends on a Facebook post and also make sure to at mention them on Twitter. Here are some simple tagging tips for you to action...
  • How to Schedule an Email in Gmail

    Sometimes email can be inflexible and you want to be an email power user. It’s easy to schedule an email in Gmail and then chase up that email with various preset autoresponders. This is all made possible by the Boomerang for Gmail plugin. It’s a great free tool that...
  • How to Make an Infographic with Ease

    Have you ever started to create your own infographic but discovered you need a little more graphic design knowledge than you’d bargained for? This problem can be easily solved. You can make your own infographics with ease using Illustrio. Infographics usually do very well on social media and get...
  • How to Find (Almost) Anyone’s Email Address

    This new media tool will set your head spinning with possibilities. Want to find an email address but not sure what it could be? As long as you’re seeking the email of somebody who works at a company with its own domain this is for you! Check out Email...
  • Creating a daily email series

    The Power of a Daily Email Series

    If you do this correctly a daily email series can be a powerful marketing technique for your business. Remember, daily emails should be for a limited time only. There should be an overall purpose to the series. Finally, most importantly, you should give your subscribers a VERY easy way...
  • How to Create a Remarketing Campaign

    4 weeks to go until New Media Europe and it’s all about remarketing advert campaigns online. If you’re in the final days of a launch and you want to make a last push remarketing is a great way to reactivate warm and hot leads that are considering your product,...
  • How to Create and Use Google Spaces

    Google Spaces could be a Basecamp, Trello or even Slack rival in the way it allows everyone in a group to communicate with Google search, YouTube and photo sharing all baked into an app that’s available across iOS, Android and desktop. Here’s a tutorial on getting started with Google...