Big data. “If you’re not into big data now, then you will be soon” is often heard – usually at IT and governance conferences. And itt might be all rubbish! Measuring stuff in millions of different ways is becoming the norm without really understanding why. Conventional wisdom goes something alone the lines of… We break […]
WordPress in the Enterprise. The Top 10 WordPress agencies in the UK are changing fast with a new breed of digital agency in the top 10 – gone are the smaller players. Until the last year, the top 10 WordPress agencies list was populated 50/50 between digital agencies and freelancers but the growth of WordPress […]
WordPress Generation. WordPress is the most important web platform since Tim Berners-Lee created the original web framework 20 years ago. It’s not just about the technical aspects, it’s the pervasive nature and open architecture that came along at just the time the web needed to be democratised. Matt Mullenweg has recently outlined his vision of […]
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WordPress Generation. Before YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, WordPress, Tumblr, Medium and the plethora of self-publishing platforms came along – information was controlled and distributed by media publishers such as the BBC, New York Times and CNN. In a handful of years this has changed out of all recognition. Breaking news comes from Twitter, political insight from […]
Open source. Patents law benefits almost no-one and absolutely hurts everyone. The whole tenet of ideas and concepts having inherent value is stifling innovation and growth. For example, the Apple vs Samsung patent war has cost/won and lost billions of dollars. With no gain for you or I. For many years, influential thinkers have argued […]
Mobile Generation By Martin Dower. The “responsive design vs xxxxx” argument seems to be won and lost every other week. What are the real problems and what should (most) companies do. Summary: If you can, build using a responsive web design – Unless you need a feature that is unique to native apps. Only a […]
Agile Approach. Getting “agile” doesn’t have to be a mystery, nor it is hard to learn as it’s a basic approach that can be learned in a day. And much like golf, you can spend a lifetime trying to master it. Following on from our article early this month we’ve been inspired to talk more […]
Mobile computing. Apple rule the mobile ecosystem, Android may have more devices out there but Apple dominates usage by a country mile. If you work on a 2 year replacement cycle you can do some man maths to work out where we’ll be in a couple of years. Big numbers: Android has about 1bn devices […]
WordPress SEO. Ever since Google hammered the final nail into the coffin of the search engine spammers, the production of quality content on the web has exploded. This is good. The death of (terrible) SEO should not underplayed, it occurred at a critical moment in the development of the web, and more specifically content publication […]
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Cloud computing. The irony that IT departments really were the last to know, or understand the growth of cloud computing, despite them actually accelerating the growth due to restrictive practices It’s now widely accepted that IT departments, programmers and draconian infrastructure policies actually drove real users into adopting cloud-based services. IT, sadly, made it a […]
Agile Approach. The world is moving so fast that traditional planning and delivery always seem to fail. Even assuming the plan is delivered, often the goal posts have moved. Projects suck for this reason alone. This is where an agile approach shines, as the culture revolves around the needs of the users and focusses on […]
WordPress Support. Fast is good. Zero downtime and stable server response is the dream of WordPress hosting on the cloud, and the dream continues. Last night we completed major upgrades to 17 servers hosting client sites. It went smooth as you like and with no loss of service. This is how we like to roll. […]
WordPress Support. “Houston, we have no problems” – the best you can hope for in client services is a smooth life. Another above target performance, with nothing to scare us and also nothing to shout about. May was very average for us, and that means responding to around 130 tickets inside 12 hours with around […]
Agile marketing by Martin Dower. “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” now has a timeframe measured not in years, but in weeks. The traditional marketing plan used to be a re-hashed version on last year’s version, but not any more. The digital world is moving so fast that […]
Designing for digital services. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. You may recognise the “padding text” used by fab and groovy designers to illustrate how their design may look (it’s crap, ain’t it?) Design should be a balance between form and function, and a key part of both those elements is the copy. […]
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Our thinking. Serious commuting used to be the preserve of the upper middle classes. Since the 1980s the trend has reversed with almost 2m working middle class spending 3hrs a day commuting. Until the 1980’s, the only people who lived more than 45 mins away from work was the well-to-do, they lived in the country […]
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Agile thinking The allegory of two mice and two humans and the human’s inability to accept the inevitability of change and the lessons that can be learned. It’s famous, of sorts, and a little condescending, but sums up much of human behaviour. It also goes a long way to explain how disruptive the digital world […]
Business efficiency. Work expands to fill the available time. It’s well known that we waste huge amounts of time during the day with email, procrastination, distraction and perfection being the big killers. There is a simple fix to these problems, and these guys have nailed it in a simple infographic. Applying the basic philosophy to […]
Social media & digital agencies. By Penny Driscoll. Since our very first Tweet in December 2009, we’ve been huge fans of Twitter. It’s a communication channel, lead acquisition source, client services tool and learning hose to drink from. We've launched our MY2010 site: http://tinyurl.com/yg5u9od — Connected ⓦ Digital Agency (@connected_uk) December 9, 2009 And the […]
WordPress & Content Planning. Traditional thinking says “today’s news is tomorrow’s chip paper”. Except that is not true, good content leads a long and useful life. (unless you’re talking about Facebook posts or Tweets – both which have an informational half-life of 30 mins.) Publication vs firehoses The stream of information coming from the social […]
