We have taken the next step in offering flexibility in how our clients can launch their MBW. Previously our clients could only launch MBW from the buttons that we provided. Now we provide links that can be used anywhere on their site. Try it; click here You could even use it on an image! Click […]
MyBookingWizard has just been through a bloody large pivot… allow me to explain: MyBookingWizard is NOT a diary management system, we never set out to build a diary management system, and we have been constantly vigilant in avoiding diary managing activities. What we wanted to build was a marketing tool. Visitors to a website will […]
Competition, competition, competition. I think I have been naughty. I have completed the creation of the Big.TOE spec ready for formal sign-off… and I did it before looking in detail at the competition. Hmm, naughty indeed. “But, but, but, I was really busy and everything was…” SHUT UP! Leave the excuses and move on. As […]
So week 1 of my first project and the pressure is on. Proper on. As in ‘ring spasm-ingly on’. But thats cool, I can handle that. Gulp. How the hell can you ‘Project Manage’ a vague idea into a product? How do you start?… Well here is the thought process we (I got some help […]
I have been at Connected for over 16 months. Throughout this time I have heard the term Big.TOE mentioned several times and never understood it. When I first got here I didn’t understand anything, and when I would request explanations on this interestingly named… thing, I would be told it means “Business Intelligence Group Theory […]
Image via CrunchBase Problems setting up an iTunes account for Apple TV Home sharing Your credit card was declined. Please enter valid credit card information In order to use my new Apple TV, I have to obtain an iTunes Store account. Now the fun starts. Initially I attempt to setup the account directly within iTunes […]
I’ve just finished reading Rework as it had been mooted as suggested reading. It sounds trite, but we could have written that book 10 years ago. Amazing! It’s exactly how we have been running the company – almost to the letter, and from day one. Makes you feel quite proud. Related articles Rework by Jason […]
Amongst the many operating systems I use for work and pleasure, I still have 3 windows boxes that need constant anti-virus nursing. On these boxes, I have run most of the common anti-virus applications over the years, commercial and free ware. I have endured problems with them all. Repeatedly failing subscription renewals that require resolution […]
Over the weekend I stumbled across a relatively new social media site Formspring.me. Launched in November 2009 and now has over 12 million accounts. The idea of it is you find and add friends and ask them questions about anything which they answer and vice versa, it’s just another way of communicating with people you […]
A fresh apple – or a chocolate bar? ‘The Nudge‘ describes how the layout of food in a school cafeteria decided what the children were going to eat. The cafeteria manager could decide if the children were going to choose salads and fruit – or fried food and sugary desserts – just by moving the […]
Since mid 2007, Google has been collecting images of almost every house, in almost every street throughout Europe, USA and Australia to provide enhanced imagery for Google Maps. Last week it was discovered that they have been collecting more than just pictures. Wi-Fi antennas on their cars, trikes and snowmobiles have also been harvesting ip […]
Whenever I am working on a project or planning a meeting I set myself objectives. Setting objectives is important to help me focus specifically on what I want to achieve and when. All objectives must be SMART. SMART stands for: 1. Specific – Objectives should specify what I want to achieve. 2. Measurable – I […]
Over the last month we have been set challenge in the Connected office involving the new Apple Ipad. Basically the challenge is to swap our laptops with the Ipad for a week and see if we can still do the majority of our job on the Ipad and maybe bring extra value by using one. […]
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 […]
Read More… from “About us”: the good, the bad and the missing
If you’ve not yet used Freecycle, here’s a quick rundown what it is and how easy it is to use and why you should use it. It’s a completely free, global, web service that pairs members of local groups who have things they want to get rid of with people who can use them. Apart […]
A/B split testing is the scientific way to see if a change is helping or hurting your site. Or if the change is just a change. It is founded in the core belief that trial and error economics works far better than HiPPO marketing. How does A/B testing work? The idea is to change some […]
HiPPO stands for Highest-Paid Person’s Opinion. If you’re from the HIPPO school of design, then questions about layout colours images copy can all be answered by the gut feeling and instinct of the HiPPO. The clue is in the title: you are making business decisions based on opinion. With a brand new, start-from-scratch site then […]
For the last 8 or 9 years I have been holding DJ events in and around the Halifax area mainly due to a lack of good quality house music available locally. When my friends and I first started holding events, at least a month before we would start with the promotion to spread the word. […]
Sitting here with my coffee, sandwich, unfinished crossword and contemplating another of my now regular monthly trips from London to Halifax, I think it’s been a particularly productive few days. Aaron’s presentation revealed impressive progress on the new release of Vites; not least because of a 400% speed increase, an automated transition to the use […]
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! […]
