Growing Your Business by Acting Small I -- External
Want to better connect with your customers? Solve challenges for your business? Create an environment for generating outstanding ideas? Whether you’re…
How Can I Get My Web Project Back On Track?
The old adage states prepare for the worst, but hope for the best. Far too often we don’t actually truly take the potential for “the worst” actually…
If You’re Going to Hitch the Corporate Bandwagon, Make Sure It Goes to the Right Place
If you’re a brand that’s going to jump on a bandwagon, make sure it’s going to take your customers where they expect to go. I subscribe to a national…
Deloitte’s TMT Predictions: Smart Speakers, Machine Learning, 5G
I was lucky enough to attend the Digital Creative 519 conference, organized by LEDC and held at Museum London the other week. The new (to me!) meeting…
How to Succeed in Editing without Really Trying: A Primer in Surviving (and Thriving in) the Approval Process
There are three words that make business writers cringe. More than “ Can you spin this to make it sound good?”; more than “We really need a blog post…
Damage Control 101 - What to Do
As much as it irks public relations types, you can't control the story. And the tighter you squeeze, the more slips out between your fingers. No…
Plotting Your Road Map to Online Success
Every once in a while I'm reminded of the Five Man Electrical Band -- "Signs, signs, everywhere a sign... Do this don't do that, can't you read the…
Messaging Lessons from the Fringes
Time is always of the essence -- so don't forget the essentials. Last night, I attended the London Fringe Festival Showcase. In a case of art…
Improving Site Performance: A Deeper Dive on Page Load (Part Two)
In the previous installment, I talked conceptually about how to approach testing and what we are trying to learn. This time we’re going to get our…
When Custom Import is a Better Choice than Migrate -- Custom Code Support and Examples
With the arrival of Drupal 8, several contributed modules -- which were previously add-ons for Drupal 7 -- received renewed attention and were…