“Wagging the Dog!”: A damning indictment of the Internal IT Department
A simple request - a new feature… even a small layout change. IT turns it into a ticket, a review cycle, a security audit, and a slot in a release schedule that sits weeks away. You ask to use a proven marketing platform. Aside from forcing project comms tools that simply don’t work for human beings, IT blocks the proposed platform because it sits outside their preferred stack. You ask for speed, IT gives you process.
Proof of Life - Validating Your Business Through Website and Social Engagement
In this “digital age”, a business's vitality is no longer solely measured by its physical presence or traditional sales figures.
Today, your website traffic and social media engagement serve as powerful, real-time affirmations of your business's existence, value, and proposition.
The developing Hybrid workspace - 4 years on from the lockdowns
Time marches on… and memories of the Covid 19 lockdowns - and the extraordinary impact they had on our personal and professional lives - seem somehow to fade and dim, as though the experience so many of us share is simply too traumatic to accommodate.
The Great WordPress Community Implosion
We have nothing against WordPress as a means of building and managing web content; it’s a perfectly wonderful blogging tool and we understand why so many web admins like it. The problem is mainly its community support - or lack of it - and the fact that as a platform it’s become a victim of its own success.
The reason why we explore unchartered territories and recommend tools we've never used before!
Our Creative Director Alex Bremer writes about the wearisome habit of so many agencies to pitch solutions based solely on their experience and comfort zone…