Gphone1

I went to the Black Crowes concert this weekend and saw a bunch of people holding up their phone to snap a picture of the band. I was standing about 20 rows back from the stage, and as a result, I was able to gain a good view of the different types of phones up in the air. Some held flip phones, others cautiously held up their Iphones and a rare few still tried to snap a pic using their Treos.

I poll on Iphone

Yesterday, I put the near finishing touches on my post about my thoughts on web site maintenance. As I started to put the final finesses on my post, I felt a growing desire to replace my question about whethere I should buy an Iphone, with a poll on whether I should buy an Iphone; however, as of yesterday, Wordpress.com didn’t offer a poll feature, only wordpress.org allowed for poll additions via php coding.

Web Maintenance

A few weeks back, I had an interesting conversation with a client about publishing content online. He made a good point that it used to be the case that content would get published and for the most part, what was published was the end stance. This was obviously the case with printed content, as once content went to the printers, the ink was pressed and the story was written. This was still the case with the web for some time too. That is to say, that what you published, for a long time, was for the most part, your final word. Now, what we see is iterations being published and content evolving – blog posts being revised, edits, newspaper articles being revised, edited, etc.

Obama’s Wicked Smaaht

The goal of any client’s web solution should always be to align strategy and tactics with specific business goals and needs.

For example, while blogs are cool and great for all the reasons I’m sure you either know or can assume, I don’t know how smart it would be for, say, an auto shop to put money and energy into a blog, when they could put that cash into an online customer database and simple contact form solution that streamlines their lead generation process and improves their customer relationship management. Not to mention that with a blog, comes the responsibility to produce content on a regular basis, as I have come to learn, so you’d have to ask, how much worthwhile content could an auto shop put out to people visiting the site.