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Tuesday, Aug 26 2008

The Social Media industry seems to get just a little bit bigger every hour and it’s amazing how many different vendors can come on the scene and offer products and solutions that can help us design and build communities of one sort or another.

As an enterprise though, you need to be sure you are working with the right solution provider. Someone who is not only selling you a service, but helping you truly understand why and how to implement it. This is where you see Awareness Networks — an on-demand social media platform for Web 2.0 communities provider — emerge as a front-runner. They have the right technology platform and what appears to be a wealth of knowledge and understanding to implement your community(s) the right way.

Monday, Aug 25 2008

The web management challenge is to shift your focus away from your website, technology and content, and to focus instead on the needs of your customers.

Monday, Aug 11 2008

Whatever ‘Web 2.0’ is or was, few organizations have lived and breathed the term as much as Zoho. Bringing office applications into the cloud for commercial and personal use is the most obvious example of this, but equally notable is all the hidden strategic and operational stuff which has brought Zoho, as of last week, to the landmark figure of one million users.

Monday, Aug 4 2008

We couldn’t help but notice the recent trend among blogging software products. Many of them are starting to look and act like web content management tools. Is it the seemingly inevitable merger with the Web CMS market, or the progression into the seemingly inevitable micro CMS arena?

Low-value content is destroying the usefulness of intranets and public websites. It needs to be stored separately.

Tuesday, Jul 29 2008

More than 63% of Internet users indicated in a recent Webcopyplus poll the written word is their choice of communications on the Web.

Monday, Jul 28 2008

Best practices and advice that focus on the implementation of a content management system are numerous — much of this body of knowledge is focused on tool selection and the technical implementation. What is often overlooked — or at least under appreciated — is the work that needs to go in to migrating content from legacy sources, into the new system.

Whether you are migrating content from an existing CMS, a file structure or a blog, there are a number of things you need to think about, plan for and decide upon. In this article we’ve collected some thoughts and guidance from a few people who know a thing or two about content migrations.

Monday, Jul 28 2008

Giving control of a website to a communicator can be like giving a pub to an alcoholic.

Thursday, Jul 24 2008

The need for wireframes is ever present in our dear business of web design. Being able to effectively diagram a site’s information and navigation proves helpful in the beginning concept stages, especially when presenting to people outside the domain of UI, IA and design. But selecting the wireframe tool that’s right for you can be challenging.

Monday, Jul 21 2008

What Google does runs contrary to much business thinking. It sees the customer’s time as the scarcest resource.

Monday, Jul 14 2008

Information overload, news fatigue and WADD (Web Attention Deficit Disorder) are creating a brutal landscape on the Internet.

Thursday, Jul 10 2008

Back in the mists of time, a couple of Stanford PhD students called Larry and Sergey came up with an idea to make searching on the web better. This they undoubtedly did. But skulking in the low-rent dens of Silicon Valley and elsewhere an army of wannabe moguls work tirelessly on usurping the Mountain View giant.

Whether for niche searches or for the whole web search prize, whether by human-powered or visual methods, whether by developing cunning semantic algorithms or by Social means, all these platforms have one thing in common: they all want to take a bite out of Google.com’s posterior.