“It needs to be fixed! Now!”

For those that didn’t immediately laugh at that headline, go watch this SNL sketch, now!

I watched a video today of Seth Godin giving a presentation titled “This is broken.” He talks about the reasons why there are so many ineffective processes that are used by businesses that don’t even recognize that they’re useless. Before I continue, check it out below. Read more

Getting departments to own their Web content

8:41 am – walk into the office
8:45 am – coffee
8:50 am – open up Outlook, scan for website maintenance requests

One of two things usually happens here: either I see no messages, meaning everyone’s happy for the moment, and I open up the job tracker and start working on a project that’s probably due later that week. Or, the more likely scenario – there are at least a couple of fires to put out:

  • “There’s a typo on this page.”
  • “Please add this information to the contact page.”
  • “I need an event registration form that submits to a database and takes payment – by tomorrow!”
  • “The sky is falling!!!”

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