Our thinking. 10 years ago, public-facing organisations took a couple of weeks to respond to stuff, the pace was dictated by the speed of the Post Office. Today, organisations are no longer time-shielded and expected to react instantaneously – and in the public glare. This Instant Everything culture is now so pervasive it’s fundamentally changed […]
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WordPress Support and Development. The last major release of WordPress before version 4.0 was fully rolled out by the Connected team last night. We started testing a while back as WordPress 3.9.1 was always going to be the tricky one, after 5 consecutive smooth releases. Most of the issues revolved around the visual editor, which […]
Mobile and Tablets. Both the design agency world and Google likes to pigeonhole tablets as mobile devices, somewhat incorrectly. In fact the tablet is neither, and both at the same time The smartphone was the big disruptor in 2008 and tablets did something similar 3 years ago and, despite them looking and feeling very similar […]
WordPress development in London. By Martin Dower. The traditional home of WordPress Development might be in San Francisco, USA but the original version came from collaboration across the ocean with Mike Little in the UK and Matt Mellenweg in the US The fact that WordPress already had a founder, and a home, in the UK […]
WordPress SEO. Tuning your WordPress content to pander to the whims of Google and it’s search ranking machine has become a lot easier in the last few months. WordPress has a definite unfair advantage in the eyes of Google, the search giant seems to reward your site with higher page ranking, fewer issues and faster […]
Mobile first Mobile is not about screen size, or thumb-friendly navigation – it’s altogether new way to interact with digital services. It’s a mind shift. If you wanted to “do stuff online” in 2004 (10 years ago) you would have used a browser, on a desktop computer and probably at home between 6pm and 8pm. […]
WordPress events in London. Just as the WordPress platform is maturing, so are the user communities surrounding it. WordPress London is now 3 years old. With over 1,200 members it is one of the biggest WordPress communities in Europe and regularly “sells out” with 100+ folks turning up in Shoreditch, London where the events are […]
Social Search & Facebook. By Penny Driscoll. As an agency, it’s slightly depressing that interesting content posted to Facebook is only seen by about 6% of your followers. All because Facebook have an algorithm to identify interesting content and filter out rubbish. With an average reach of 6% you really need 10s of thousands of […]
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WordPress Support. One month after launching our Peerless WordPress Support Service: And we’re smashing records left and right. The graph speaks louder than a whole book of words. And it’s fricking awesome. The moved the game on back in January, when performance was slipping out of control. It wasn’t a resourcing blockage, we’ve dealt with […]
Our thinking. 50 years ago Herman Miller designed the modern day office. He unwittingly created a living hell that squeezed the life and creativity from people And this from the inventor of the coolest office chair ever. The idea was to set people free and create a flow of energy and work, whilst at the […]
Social Media & Networks Just as Google are about the pull the rug on G+, we’ve just finished updating our G+ page Nothing big to report, but since all the social networks now demand letter-box shaped cover images, we’ve re-worked our standard banner to fit. Enjoy. […]
Digital Marketing. Grumpy. Happy. Sleepy? No, not those 7 marketers. A tongue in cheek look at “marketing types” See if you recognise yourself, or others around you. Courtesy of .Rising. […]
Social Media & Platforms By Penny Driscoll. Google + has been a social wasteland since it was created in 2011. And now the 1500 hundred strong team are being broken up. Is this the end? Google has described Google+ as a “social layer” that enhances its online properties, and that it is not simply a […]
Mobile revolution It seems like yesterday. Steve Jobs gets up on stage and said those immortal words, “And one more thing”, and the iPad was borne – to tepid reception. The establishment (aka the PC world) just didn’t get it; it lacked a keyboard, removable storage, a CD drive or even a USB port. It […]
WordPress Support Good support on WordPress installations is becoming ever more key to it’s success as more and more, and larger and larger organisations make the switch to WordPress. In response to ever increasing demands on support we’ve been continually evolving our support offerings over the last 4 months. And simplifying them. We call it: […]
Mobile computing: Wearables By Martin (the geek) Dower. Pebble shipped over 350,000 smartwatches in 2013. This year they could pass the 1m mark. Who cares really? The market is tiny when you consider 1,000,000,000 smartphones were shipped last year so wearables aren’t even on the radar. Except, they are. And they’re sneaking in via all […]
Agile Marketing Series Not everyone gets agile marketing, and many think it’s only for big brands with deep pockets. Let’s shatter some myths Agile is not a clever new application, 4-day residential course or a dedicated marketing function. Its way simpler than that; its the judicious use of marketing spend in the context of the […]
Twitter Re-design. It was only a couple of days ago that Twitter announced it was rolling out a new design for profiles pages. Whapap! A few days later, and it’s implemented So we’ve got a new Twitter profile and very funky it looks. All the major social networks seem to be adopting this new ultra-skinny […]
WordPress Releases. Big feature releases of WordPress tend to get all the glory, but not this time. WordPress 3.9 brings more and simpler visual editing power Named “Smith” in honor of jazz organist Jimmy Smith, WordPress 3.9 is now on full release and we’ll be updating client web-sites over the next few weeks automatically. It’s […]
WordPress as a digital platform by Martin Dower. It seems that “disruptive” is the new marketing buzzword, but what does it actually mean and how does it apply to WordPress, digital services and the new breed of web-services. In this context, the true meaning of a disruption is the creation of an innovative service or […]
