Tag Archive: transparency
“About us”: the good, the bad and the missing
About us pages come in 3 flavours:
1. Corporate babble – meaningless waffle about “management teams”, “strategic partnerships”, “proactive solutions”. Sometimes “stakeholders” creep in as well. If you hide the company name then these pages would fit any organisation from NASA down to Rotherham Pet Supplies Ltd.
If you are a me-too company with a me-too website [...]
Client-side analytics. Problem No: 222
It appears that the old chestnut of “privacy” and “data protection” might put a bloody great hole in the “Client-side analytics” ship. Specifically our old friend Google Analytics has been declared illegal in Germany.
“So what”, I here you cry, “we’re not in Germany”. But we are, sort of, in the Federated European States of Brussels [...]
Not happy? Got a problem? Want to complain?
We really do try our best to help clients and their customers but, being human, we sometimes fall short of expectations. This is part of being human and we’re keen to hear about your experiences (good as well as bad) so encourage you to contact our CEO, Martin Dower via email martind@connected-uk.com.
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…
