About Us
Background
After a number of false starts, the Internet has finally come of age with open-source software driving semantic Web 2.0 developments and presenting new, solid opportunities for increased economic activity, profitability and growth.
Whilst many traditional media businesses cling to conventional publishing activity, new enterprises like Google® are taking their markets and creating entirely new revenue streams from low-cost, highly-personalised digital advertising products based on searches that get fast results.
Digital advertising, having broken the £2 billion barrier in 2006, took 18% of all UK advertising sales in 2007 from a market share of virtually zero at the beginning of 2003. This exceptional growth has been achieved at the expense of newspapers, B2B magazines and other traditional media.
Traditional businesses slow to respond are seeing their profits severely eroded by costs they simply cannot bring down short of turning their backs on investment to date and starting afresh.
Wales.info/BCMS does not have to do this. With over 45 years of combined experience working with new media and contributing to its growth, the Wales.info/BCMS team are launcing a completely new series of spatially-presented websites covering all sectors, based on the national Wales.info domain name, acquired by the company in 2006.
The Team
James Christopher Edwards
Director of Sales and Marketing
Email: james.edwards@wales.info
James is 46, born and educated in the Cynon Valley, has worked for himself and private business most of his life with the exception of a two-year stint as an insurance company salesman where he was in the top five performers in the UK and a regular member of the honours club.
He has built successful businesses in publishing including offline free newspapers and online portals. By 1996 he was designing high-ranking websites, working out why they were performing so well in the search engines and pioneering the science of Search Engine Optimisation.
James has made contacts around the world and today moderates and advises on some of the most respected SEO Forums on the Internet including highrankings.com, digitalpoint.com, smallbusinessbrief.com. He has on his client list Adobe Inc and Norwich Union, although working with small businesses gives him the most pleasure.
His greatest passions are his family, rugby and marketing. He is an active member of his community and local rugby club, Resolven RFC, where, although no longer playing, he sponsors 3 teams, runs the Mini and Junior section, coaching the Under 8s and Under 9s. He is also a member of the Vale of Neath Parochial Church Council.
Terry Jackson
Director of Strategy and Planning
Email: terry.jackson@wales.info
Terry Jackson co-founded This Week–Wythnos Yma, the national tourism newspaper for Wales, in 1988 with business partner Steven Potter who later went on to develop http://londontown.com. After producing the original blueprint for Visit Wales in 1996 and developing the Sustainable Transport for Tourism Wales marketing campaign, he engineered the Internet debut of This Week in 1997, embedding spatial information into the system soon after. The new site was launched at the Cymru'r Milflwydd tourism showcase at the 2000 National Eisteddfod of Wales, where an historic 'Owain Glyndwr' re-enactment was staged as part of the celebrations.
In 2004 the newspaper was switched entirely onto the Internet and Staying in Wales was founded to take forward the Taste of Wales scheme abandoned by the Welsh Development Agency in 2003. The Wales.info domain was acquired a year later under licence with a ten-year option to purchase.
Terry is a long-time director of Wales Rural Forum and a member of various steering groups including the Rural Resource, AGI Cymru and Hidden Britain Wales. Outside his passion for work, his main interests are family, Formula 1 motor racing, supporting his local Histon FC football team, developments in Eastern Europe and an oral history project involving his old school.
Arvind Nehru
Webmaster and Network Manager
Email: arvind.nehru@wales.info
Arvind Nehru is 29, born in Bangalore, India where in 2002 he achieved his BSc in Computer Science. In 2004, after working two years in a small company as a Quality Assurance Executive, he joined This Week Wales as Network Manager.
In 2005 he enlisted at Bangor University on an intense two-year Masters degree course in Computer Science during which time he was building and running websites and web applications on a daily basis including http://walescalendar.com and http://stayinginwales.com.
Working under the tutelage of senior web developers and consultants, he has gained considerable experience building CSS pages using new digital mapping platforms and is a member of several web development communities including Google Maps, Google Earth and semantic Web 2.0 applications.
Arvind is a keen cricketer, follower of Formula1 and Moto GP.
Appointment to be Confirmed
Director of Product Development
Email: info@wales.info
Contact Us
Cymru.Wales.info
Business Cluster Marketing Systems Limited (BCMS)
Unit 4, Penamser Business Park, Porthmadog LL49 9GB
Email: info@wales.info
Website: http://wales.info
Phone: +44 (0) 7770 574130