A Halloween Primer on How to Avoid Resurrecting the Ghosts of Social Media Nightmares Past
It's Halloween. A night when all manner of creatures crawl in search of blood to terrorize your neighbourhood. It's a night when ghouls and ghosts…
No Short Cut to Quality Content - Despite What the Black-Hat Snake-Oil Salesmen May Say
I have a few posts running in my head, but none have tapped that vein which allows them just to spill right out on the page. So when the Twitters…
Winning Web Solutions Requires a Team Effort
This evening, the Echidna team will be gathering together in a private box to watch our junior hockey team. It’s a great opportunity to leave the shop…
Writing the Foundations of a Drupal/Islandora Partnership - Part One of an Interview with Susan Brown
Digital Echidna has been working with a number of partners on a project called the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (CWRC), a project that…
Islandora and Drupal Shops: the Challenges and Successes -- Part Two of an Interview with Susan Brown
Yesterday, we introduced you to the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (CWRC) project. Today, we share project leader Susan Brown's thoughts on…
A 360-Degree Approach for an Accessible Path to Success
It's easy to pay attention to the big challenges that are right in front of our face, but to get a true view of the issue, you need to apply a 360…
Observations from my First Hackathon
Hackathons. These marathon computer-programming competitions generally involve spending the day (or days) with strangers, forming teams around a…
Northern's President & CEO Michael DeLorenzi Selected As 20 Under40 Award Recipient
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: LONDON, ON – October 3, 2017 — London INC Magazine and the Twenty Under Forty Foundation have recognized Michael DeLorenzi…
User Experience and Mass Transit Websites: Planning a Better Experience
So, how do you know if your transit site is any good? In the first part of our series we talked about the importance of open source - how open data…
Online Content: What makes it great?
We’ve previously talked about your online content and how getting started is tough. Whether you’re writing for the web, social media or you’re writing…