Chris Murray and I had lunch yesterday and Intranets were on the menu, big time… He posts this morning(by the way, new url alert – he’s changed the location of his blog, so update your reader): But a common theme in business seems to be “our Intranet sucks” or “I can’t find anything in our system” or ” that’s your stuff, I need to find my stuff.” Too many businesses see their information systems and processes as a cost center…
I’m struck lately by the way that I more and more define my own media. While it used to be that the definitions were as simple as what flavor of nightly news, newspapers and magazines I ingested, the definition has become even more blurred. Even a year ago, my news was somewhat loosely summed up by the news services I read at their websites as they intended me to read them. Boston.com (The Boston Globe) BostonHerald.com (The Boston Herald) NYTimes.com…
Here’s one I just picked up off YouTube…Adriano Campagnani performing Predador Adriano Campagnani-Bass Augusto Rennó-Guitar André Campagnani-Drums Claudio Faria-Piano/Keyboards Dig Deeper: www.myspace.com/campagnani www.campagnani.com.br
Last week I posted about two sites that had launched, PowerUpRental.com and Laserdocs.com – both of which had major SEO components. Now, a week after they went live, I can share some results with you. Both were essentially going from no position at all. Virtually no Google presence. Frankly, I’m even shocked at how quick they were reindexed… Sometime in the past week they both were updated. Check this out: Dewatering equipment rental “new england” #1 & 2 Pettibone rental…
When you’ve had a site up for a decade or so, you often end up with a lot of legacy stuff, reminders of the sometimes boneheaded decisions you made long ago. Generally, we plan to go back and fix them, but as often as not, we focus on the mission critical and forget about the housekeeping. Until it comes back to bite us. Yesterday was a day of DNS fun. It started with a couple of frantic IM’s from a…
I haven’t seen it yet, but I’m very optimistic about this addition to the Google Analytics suite… From the Google Analytics Blog: First, you’ll be able to use Google Analytics to track site search activity. Simply edit any of your Google Analytics profiles to enable “Site Search” and you can find out what people search for on your site and where these searches lead. And Event Tracking sounds very cool – they can get around AJAX and Javascript… We’ll begin…
This is hilarious…a quick presentation showing the things Google would need to do to their site to redesign…if they wanted to be well positioned in Google. View it here… As the post that pointed me to this on Slashdot notes, it’s basically a redo of the famous “Microsoft designs the Ipod Package” video…check it out if you haven’t seen it…and think about how you’re brand identity guidelines work for you…
David Churbuck’s got a good piece up today commenting on an article that appearred in the Sunday Times (NY, not London…) noting that many key advertisers are moving good portions of their budgets out of regular media (newspapers, magazines, tv) and the web towards internally developed products: Here’s the payoff from the piece. The shift is not from traditional to digital, it’s from public media to “internal” media. In essence, marketers, particularly consumer packaged goods, are plowing their dollars into…
Okay, one of the problems with blogs is the chronological presentation – sometimes you end up reading things in the wrong order. Like I just did. And as you are about to do…you see I just read the post on Seth Godin’s site that preceeded the one I commented on in my last post. And that one also needs to a comment from me, here. Is your head spinning yet? I guess it should be… “How to create a good…
Seth Godin’s got another gem up on his site: “How to Create a Great Website” in which he puts forward among his 10 excellent points: 1. Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a dealbreaker. My experience is that working with committees is the one way to ensure a tediously long process with mediocre results. Most of the committees I’ve worked with have had at least…