Got a website? Feeling guilty because you’ve not fed it lately? While it’s probably not the end of the world, unchanged websites soon slip down search-engine rankings. The digital version of tumbleweed doesn’t look good at the best of times. Perhaps, worst of all, if your reason for neglecting it is that you’re too busy, [...]
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It’s easy to run an ‘open research department’
I thought I’d write a post pulling together some advice I’ve been giving to a few of my clients recently on how a good research department can be built within a small organisation that doesn’t really have the resources to manage one under normal circumstanes. Firstly, if you’ve got information and data, making it widely [...]
RSS + lateral thinking
If there is one bit of technology that I would urge every non-techie to get their head around, it’s RSS – ‘really simple syndication.’ This is a facility that most modern websites have added to them allowing visitors to take bits of content and use them in a variety of ways. The most obvious use [...]
Like building a block of flats without doorhandles
In my scarce spare-time, I’ve started work on a non-commercial ‘hyperlocal’ website in my neighbourhood. It has brought home to me just how near-yet-far local social networking is from achieving what it could do. It’s in it’s early stages, but go and have a look at Finchlinks and tell me what you think? The whole [...]
