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Digital Strategy: Who is your website manager?
Who is ultimately responsible for your organisations website? Who has the vision, authority and passion? Without a website manager, your site will fail to achieve its potential.
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Digital Strategy: Agile web design and the agency model
Most organisations think in terms of web projects, but successful websites like GOV.UK are developed through ongoing iterative and agile development. How can we reconcile this difference in thinking?
Digital Strategy: Siri and Google Glasses herald a new era on the web
For the longest time the web community has been heralding the arrival of mobile. Now that it has hit the mainstream and turned the industry upside down, what will the next evolution of the web be?
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Better UX : How to achieve the impossible with your web presence
Large organisations make building and running user centric websites nearly impossible. How then has GOV.UK turned out to be such an amazing exception to the rule and what can we learn from it?
Digital Strategy : No more web projects
Before you launch yet another web project to redesign your site, I beg you to think twice.
Digital Strategy : 10 ways to battle site bureaucracy
Running a large institutional website is frustrating. Your site is often held back by internal politics and bureaucracy. Let me show you 10 ways to cut through the crap and get results.
Digital Strategy : 10 harsh truths about corporate websites
We all make mistakes running our websites. However the nature of those mistakes varies. As your site and organisation grow, the mistakes begin to change. This post addresses common mistakes in larger organisations.
Content Strategy : 10 Harsh Truths About Corporate Blogging
Every company in western civilization seems to have a blog these days. But are they worth it, and why are so many terrible?
Digital Strategy : Why your website RFP is probably wrong
What follows is an open letter to any prospective client who is about to issue a website RFP (Request for Proposals).
Digital Strategy : Justifying ongoing website maintenance
Every organisation requires a programme of ongoing website maintenance, but management often doesn’t understand that. How then do you convince them?
Digital Strategy : Website monitoring and iteration
Many website owners have a “built it and you’re done” mentality towards their sites. But, a truly successful site relies on continual monitoring and iteration.
Better UX : Poor online customer support highlights bigger issues
We have all experienced poor online customer support at some point in the past. But despite its prevalence this is not an easy problem to fix.
Digital Strategy : Analytics for content rich sites
A key component of web governance is an ongoing programme of monitoring site analytics. The question is; what do you monitor if you are not an ecommerce site?