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
An interesting afternoon. I formed part of a panel with three other Google Apps customers - a sports goods retailer, a company producing fabrication tools for chip manufacturers, and an ERP consulting firm. There seemed to be some common themes - a general consensus that using Outlook as a front end for Google Mail is … Continue reading Travelblog SF48 – 3
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
So here I am in San Francisco, just up the road from Silicon Valley and the centre of the world's tech industry. And as a result, I find out about Steve Jobs' departure from the front page of a newspaper pushed under my door in the hotel this morning. Oh, the irony. I guess it … Continue reading Travelblog SF48 – 2
So one of the crazier things in my life so far... San Francisco and back in a little more than 48 hours. I have been invited to take part in a customer panel at the global Google Enterprise sales conference. It was too good an opportunity to turn down, but family and other work commitments … Continue reading Travelblog SF48 – 1
