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Project achievements this week included: - beginning of the AD project pilot - meeting with first of two UC consultants - processing of the Adobe licensing data - spec for the replacement of the infamous Yellow Card system - and a first cut of the potential Cloud seminar I'm planning (contribute here: http://blog.mattballantine.com/blog/_archives/2011/2/3/4741694.html) and also: … Continue reading Weeknote 36 – in which sleep deprivation took hold

Yesterday, amongst much fuss and media attention, Rupert Murdoch and his staff at News International launched The Daily, the hyped electronic newspaper available only on iPad. Putting aside the fact that Murdoch carried his Apple device onto the stage like it were a rancid sock (he really doesn't like this technology stuff, does he?) the … Continue reading Media anachronisms

At the end of last year I was asked by Emma at The Cloud Circle to look at pulling together material for a seminar to be run at some point this year to share some of the learning and experiences we've had thus far in moving to the Cloud. In between Christmas, babies, and unscheduled … Continue reading Leading a move into the Cloud

I've written before about the practice in place at Google known as 'dogfooding', whereby the staff at the firm use pre-release versions of services as a kind of final, mass-scale beta test. This morning there has been a major revision to the Google Docs user interface, and it has made me think that there might … Continue reading The dangers of dogfooding

Project achievements this week included: - final supplier presentations on the print project - met potential content management supplier - BCP planning began - further scoping for the telephony project - off site data mirror investigations began - wifi for London offices scope and costs And also: - survived an eight-hour internet outage - recorded … Continue reading Weeknote 35 – of broken fibre

A good conversation yesterday after my blog posting that threw up some interesting conclusions. Whilst the focus for our web presence is likely to be on new business generation (which is unsurprising, given the type of business we are in), and a much stronger focus on social networking going forward, the other area that we … Continue reading The future of corporate websites?

I'm off this morning (amongst other things) to have a meeting about our corporate web presence. Going into it I wonder, unless your business is your website, do you really need one any more? There is probably need for some sort of corporate calling card, and maybe somewhere to aggregate content from other sources, but … Continue reading The death of websites

Over the past couple of weeks I have (as an academic exercise) been thinking about where the major IT challenges lie in the industry in which I work.An agency doesn't really have any big business systems issues that would be faced in the finance, manufacturing or retail sectors (shh - don't tell anyone!). Our client list … Continue reading The costs of being creative

A couple of great Blog posts from @euan recently about how big an impact the Internet may be having (or not be having) on the world at large. Partly they've made me think of current writers like Don Tapscott (@dtapscott) who contend that it's changing almost everything - and on the other has made me … Continue reading How significant the invisible?

Project achievements this week included: - exploratory meeting with Adobe to discuss next steps on The Content Story - some good insight over lunch with from Andy Grant@workcomms into WAN optimisation and content management - potential expert guides contacted in readiness for our Unified Communications adventures - some thinking about roll-out plans for the AD … Continue reading Weeknote 34: Crazy travel special