Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
The gang at the Never Work Alone blog have a fantastic post describing some of the solutions to the Introverted IT / Extroverted Sales-Marketing integration issue.[here]
The best points:
When hiring, place a premium on being able to explain technical issues to users and determine whether they’ve mastered the material. Expect this to cost more.
Offer raises for [...]
In: smp
7 Jul 2005Geeks in the audience should get this in a flash! Especially Dave Winer!
Technorati: Google Earth, Dave Winer, Geeks
In: smp
17 May 2005Johnnie Moore posts a great quote from Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, made in an interview with Wired.
A piece of art is not a loaf of bread. When someone steals a loaf of bread from the store, that’s it. The loaf of bread is gone. When someone downloads a piece of music, it’s just data until [...]
In: smp
21 Apr 2005Cliff Atkinson points out how the PowerPoint Nazis rule corporate life. [here]
Cliff’s message in Beyond Bullets is simple: escape the drudgery of a point-by-point breakdown your ideas. Tell a story. May it evocative, descriptive, invigorating, or even scary. If the audience hears a story, it is far more likely that they will remember what you [...]
In: RANTING
17 Mar 2005As the Web moves toward the delivery of services, I have been ruminating on the continuing importance of browsers.
Scoble writes:
Oh, well, back to my RSS news aggregator. That’s where I spend 90% of my Internet time now anyway. Are you still using a Web browser? Good. I’ve been telling audiences that those of you still [...]
In: smp
29 Dec 2004Scott Berkun has an excellent essay on creative burnout.
For those of you who read this and may know me, this is a hard thing to accept. That I have gone so hatd at something for so long that it no longer excites me. Yes, there are elements of it that do motivate me, but the [...]
In: RANTING
21 Dec 2004The Blog Herald has a great discussion on blogging to a world-wide English-speaking audience (Choosing your English: the choice for new bloggers).
As a Canadian living in the US, my spellings have slid more towards the English(US) side of the spectrum in the last five years. This has been a matter of survival when dealing with [...]
In: RANTING
2 Dec 2004A couple of comments on the new MSN Spaces site.
Your web server headers for the main page are basically not helpful, especially the Caching ones:
Cache-Control: no-cachePragma: no-cacheExpires: -1
"-1" is not a valid Expires entry — jest set it to the current date. "Pragma" is a client-side header ONLY.
No compression? CSS, JS, and HTML file compression [...]