Saturday Celebration
Saturday January 30th… …is DOUGS BIRTHDAY! I think many beers are in order, for the 24th anniversary of Dougs birth should be an important day in everyone’s calendar. The more the merrier!
Wanted : Bright Interns
We’re getting pretty busy as 2010 kicks off and we’re looking to find a couple of interns to help us out with front-end CSS/XHTML programming. I’d expect the internship to last 6 months or so and there is most definitely the opportunity for a job at the end of it for the brightest and best! [...]
Happy New Year
First day back and the snow is really coming down heavy with this week’s forecast predicting a great deal more snow. Our office is open again after the Christmas break and with just 15 support calls over the shutdown period we had one of the quietest periods on record so thanks to all our clients [...]
Christmas 2009 shutdown period
Connected close the main offices for the Christmas period from midday Thu 24th Dec until Mon 4th Jan. Clients with change contracts are requested to ensure all change requests for this period are sent prior to close of play on Monday 21st. As usual we have an out of hours support facility on 07590 293 [...]
New and better Basecamp coming
The makers of Basecamp (37signals) have recently improved the way the user login system works. The change will make your account more secure, easier to sign in should you ever forget your details and also allow faster and easier switching between multiple Basecamp accounts. Part of this will be a new ‘launchpad’. Sometime during December, [...]
Mad Friday
Mad Friday (18th) is coming! The plan is to head into town for beer and curry after work and the more people who attend the better! – in fact I do believe (and fervently hope) that everyone is coming. Merry Christmas.
2010 – Time for a change
As we enter our 14th year of trading it was time for a change in our outlook. What do you think of the new look? (email me martind@connected-uk.com). We’ve seen substantial growth in 2009 and 2010 is heading the same way and we wanted to get all of the team contributing regularly to the site so we’ve adopted the Wordpress platform and, with a few tweaks, created what I think is a nice fresh and clean identity (thanks Colin).
We’re planning to publish lots of articles, information and ideas; we’re going to be sharing our very best ideas with you so we’d really appreciate your comments (good and bad). Give it some time to grow and it will become a pretty useful place to gather ideas on how you can improve your Internet thinking, strategy and results…
Project management…collaboration stylee
We rolled out Basecamp company-wide in January 2008 and now manage around 70 live projects in a wonderfully collaborative manner. It dramatically changed how the organisation worked internally and many of the clients subsequently took up using the application themselves for other projects.
Changing from an ugly and ill-formed email-based system into a simple, fast and cloud-enabled application has reduced costs, increased control and brought a whole host of really important improvements to how we work…
