January 2006

A discussion about modern websites

January 31, 2006 Innovation

An AccountingWEB reader posed a question about how to take their corporate website forward, telling a tale of woe about how his supplier has let him down. This has drawn a lot of debate about the nature and purpose of modern websites for professionals. Well worth reading, especially in light of what Tom Feremski says [...]

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Meet Gary Turner – MD Pegasus Software

January 31, 2006 Marketing

If you’d asked me two weeks ago whether I would be talking to Gary Turner, MD of Pegasus Software, it would have been low on my list of priorities. Anyone who has history with the company – and I do – would likely say two things: ‘Still alive? Basket case.’ But then any MD who [...]

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Can you really trust PayPal?

January 30, 2006 General

I frequently use PayPal to acquire services over the wire. But…in recent months I’ve been getting a lot of email purporting to be from PayPal. I know a lot of it is scam spam or phishing expeditions. Firefox picks a good amount up but the scammers are getting clever. I started to get messages that [...]

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New threads for David Terrar

January 30, 2006 Cloud Computing/SaaS

This must sound like the David Terrar Appreciation Society at work but it isn’t. The guy’s worked real hard this last few months and is making a serious go of his business using this medium as a prime method of reaching his target audience at very low cost. Last weekend, he rebuilt the site using [...]

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Lessons from Lloyds of London project failure

January 30, 2006 Cloud Computing/SaaS

The Lloyds of London decision to ditch Project Kinnect has been called out by Nick Carr as an example where huge projects are likely to fail. Not necessarily and not only for the reasons Carr proposes. Tom Foydel makes the comment that: Project size is relative. A small organization can get crushed by the weight [...]

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New media value and SEO

January 30, 2006 General

Over the weekend, David Terrar and I recorded a podcast where we discuss some of the basics of blogging for professionals. During the diiscussion, David introduces the subject of search engine optimisation (SEO), noting that blogs stand a better chance of discovery than static websites. How to listen to the show: You will need to [...]

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Putting the client at the centre

January 28, 2006 General

I’m currently engaged on a project where the client wants brochures. Yuk! Or at least that was my initial reaction. I hate brochureware because in the tech world it’s dominated by feature/function lists that are largely meaningless to the audience. Who cares if a product has 20-digit coding structures? What readers want to know is [...]

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Mike Rake (and others) at Davos

January 27, 2006 General

Want to know what lame duck head honcho at KPMG, Mike Rake thinks of Davos? The FT is carrying what Loic LeMeur describes as a weblog but which looks more like a traditional diarist’s view. Even so, it’s good to see where KPMG client money gets spent. More generally, Loic LeMeur and his team are [...]

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The self-selecting sausage game

January 27, 2006 Cloud Computing/SaaS

In rural France there’s a game that’s played among drunken men. It’s called the Sausage Game. Essentially it’s about seeing who can p**s highest up the wall outside the local bar usually labelled ‘urinale’ after a skinful – you get the picture – Big Swinging Dick and all that. And so it is over at [...]

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