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Article The Future of the Web, Part 2 by Christopher Butler on July 29, 2009 Imagine touring Paris, guided in real time on your phone by a custom walking tour you created using data from the web. Holding your phone up to the bistro on the corner, a menu as well as reviews from other travelers pops up on the screen, which you briefly scan before deciding to stop for a bite. Before walking in, you pause and reach into your pocket for your debit card, which recognizes your biometrics and holographically displays your current balance. It's a bit less than you remembered. Well, the bistro is a bit pricey, but you had a cheap breakfast... Read Now About
Article Prospect Experience Design Guest Post by Eric Holter: A Critique of the Currency Marketing’s Website by Christopher Butler on July 28, 2009 Now that Eric, our former CEO, is off to new heights in his career, I've invited him to contribute a few guest blog posts. This is the second of a series that will be published in the coming months... Tim McAlpine founded his agency in 1990. But it wasn’t until 2003 that he took the bold step to re-position The McAlpine Group (their former name) as Currency Marketing, a specialized Credit Union marketing firm. It’s rare that creative firms overcome their initial terror at the idea of such focused positioning. Fears of opportunities lost or being passed over for other kinds of work (not to mention the fear of boredom from doing “just one thing”) often give agencies pause. It’s sometimes easier for agencies to warm up to the idea of positioning the way Tim did at the time, by maintaining two “brands.” In 2004 Tim created Currency Marketing for credit unions and Passport Marketing presumably for everything else. But three years later the fruits of Currency Marketing’s positioning were so profound he dropped Passport and now enjoys a laser focused specialization, which gives him valuable expertise and a leading position in credit union marketing... Read Now About
Article 301 redirects, the Newfangled way. published on July 27, 2009 This blog post will explore what a 301 redirect is, why we use them, and how to set them up with Newfangled CMS. Newfangled generally advises clients to use 301 redirects when transitioning from an old website to a new website. What is a 301 redirect? A 301 redirect is when a URL : http://www.oldsite.com/old_post_about_product is redirected to http://www.oldsite.com/old_post_new_URL Read Now About
Article Prospect Experience Design Guest Post by Eric Holter: A Critique of the Talstone Group Website by Christopher Butler on July 22, 2009 Now that Eric, our former CEO, is off to new heights in his career, I've invited him to contribute a few guest blog posts. This is the first of a series that will be published in the coming months... The Talstone Group is heading in the right direction with their website. They’ve already done the hard part, choosing a bold and narrow positioning statement (they specialize in healthcare marketing). They also have a site platform that includes a news section and blog so they have the means to employ a solid content strategy. But they seem to stumble in implementation of a content strategy that accords with their clear positioning. Read Now About
Article What I Read This Week by Christopher Butler on July 22, 2009 (Technically, this is what I read last week; it's just late going out. Just sayin') In preparation for Part 2 of this past month Read Now About
Article What Are You Listening To? by Christopher Butler on July 22, 2009 I've been enjoying many posts lately that fit into the "recommended reading" category- posts that list links to articles and/or books and explanations of why they're worth checking out (it's a content strategy). But I also listen to many audiocasts and would love to know what people in my network are listening to; I bet there's some great stuff out there that I don't know about. To break the ice, I thought I'd try putting out a list of audiocasts that I've been listening to lately and what I like about them... Read Now About
Article Building a WordPress Site published on July 20, 2009 We've been working on Newfangled's first WordPress site! Read Now About
Article How We Invest in Our People – Education! by Christopher Butler on July 16, 2009 I just saw this post from Matt at the 37 Signals blog about the benefit of "playtime" on innovation in the workplace. It's a brief thought but a very important one. Matt pulls a quote from Jim Coudal that is right on: Most of the smart, creative, successful people I know spend a good deal of time looking for inspiration, tracking down ideas and doing research. We do all those things too, we just don’t have a problem with calling it what it is, “goofing around.” Play is essential, it’s through play that you find connections between things that might not be at all obvious through logic or practicality. If you don’t have any accidents how are you ever going to have happy ones? He goes on to mention other examples of how companies invest in innovation by giving their employees some free time. How does Newfangled do this? Well, we do this in several different ways that I think accumulate to a holistic investment in our people and their minds... Read Now About
Article Email Marketing Planning for Ecommerce by Christopher Butler on July 15, 2009 "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system." - John Gall (http://www.daringfireball.net/2009/04/complex) This is an excellent quote that could probably be applied to many different points, but I'm including it here because I think it applies nicely to a trend I've observed with ecommerce development. For the most part, any project we do that involves ecommerce tends to fit into one of the following three categories... Read Now About
Article A Value-Based Content Strategy by Christopher Butler on July 14, 2009 Are you overwhelmed by the web? I am. You probably are, too, but are a little afraid to admit it. Perhaps the better question would be, "How overwhelmed are you by the web?" The rate at which the web grows in content is astounding, and for those who try to keep up with a lot of content whether personally or professionally, it can feel frustrating, exhausting, even futile. That's because it's all of those things. Really, something's got to give. So, I want to get real with our content: with the newsletters, the blog, my use of social media on behalf of Newfangled, all of it... Read Now About