December 9, 2009
In my line of work, keeping track of the threads is half the battle. At work, we have (for now) three corporate sites, a sandbox, a development environment, and more. We have social media channels – some corporately-managed, many managed by external agencies in support of our campaigns – and an active stakeholder and media…
November 24, 2009
Just a quick one to flag for readers who get my stuff by RSS that I’ve got a parallel tumblog alongside this main blog, which I use to post up quick reviews of tools that I like for web work. I’ve called it A Load Of Cobblers, to celebrate the spirit and practice of cobbled-together…
November 17, 2009
Photo credit: ilse Last week, Stephen Hale wrote a great piece on how to say no to new websites in the nicest possible way. I quite agree with him, and his analysis that most of the time, people say ‘I want a new website’ when they really mean that they want their issue or campaign…
October 1, 2009
In a previous life, I once wrote: Fundamentally, evaluation should be about measuring performance objectively in order to make improvements: measuring: involves a process for collecting, recording and sharing data, perhaps from a number of sources, or of different types performance: how successful the activity has been, which means how well it met its objectives,…
October 5, 2008
You don’t need to understand technology to grok understand social media, but frankly, it sometimes helps. Or at least a basic grounding in how AJAX is different from PHP, and why CSS won’t sort out your SQL will help you to follow what a developer is on about and whether they are likely to be…
