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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

I've been thinking a little more about the issues of cannibalisation of revenue sources that cloud produces for traditional software vendors. I noted that Apple seem to be coping well with the way in which iPhone appears to be eating into the sales of iPod, but of course this is a classic example of an … Continue reading Mastering the downsell

Apple's quarterly results announced today noted one mildly grey spot amongst the (again) record figures - sales of iPod dropped by 7%. It's not surprising really. As more and more people move to smartphones (and iPhones in particular) the need for dedicated music players becomes less compelling. Personally I haven't used an MP3 player for … Continue reading Cannibal instincts

Project achievements this week included: - Short, short listing on the managed print service project - Review of the project programme list with the Group FD - Sign off on the final elements of the London networks project - Agents in place for licence inventory reporting - Deployment approaches for AD project agreed (ish) - … Continue reading Weeknote 33: back after a brief hiatus

We live today in an almost incomprehensibly complicated world. Next week I am going to be visiting the United States. When I send an email from my BlackBerry whilst there it will depend on ast least the following things: - the device's battery - the BlackBerry OS and mail app - no other app on … Continue reading The death of SLAs