As you’ll note in our News section , e-consultancy.com & iConcertina Creative have just issued a Charity Website Benchmark report revealing that many of the top 110 charities’ sites suffer from a lack of transparency, communicate poorly, and score quite low in accessibility.
In a recent podcast conversation over at Fundraising Technology, my colleague Mark Meade […]

I am always pleased to see mainstream entertainment embracing online and amazed at how quickly consumer-led media platforms, such as blogging, podcasting and social networking have entered the mainstream. Peter Jackson, for example, had his very own production blog, Kong is King, tracking the progress of filming King Kong and creating a unique connection with […]

We’ve just finished developing the beta release of Cogenz. Based on the social media success of del.icio.us, Cogenz, which stands for Collective Intelligence, offers a shared bookmarking facility: a knowledge management tool that sits behind the firewall of an enterprise. The first review by Anu Gupta appears positive. We’ve developed it in .Net on Microsoft […]

blog.iconcertina.com continues the discussion previously help at my Smartapps blog. This evening I tried to login to the Typepad Smartapps blog but just as Neville Hobson discovered, its down again. Ironically, I was logging on to post my LAST post in typepad - telling everyone that we have migrated our blog to a new url […]

Charles Dunstone, Chief Executive of the Carphone Warehouse who offers no-cost broadband to UK consumers, blogs here. You have got to love this guy. What a breath of fresh air, a corporate being open & transparent about their challenges. I was forwarded the link by a Telco Analyst who said:
Refreshingly honest. Even if you are […]

In June, politicians in the US decided not to put into law the principle that all bits on the internet should be treated equally. This may not sound so important – but it is laying the foundations for a 2 speed internet that could forever lose the first amendment of Internet Neutrality. Telecommunications […]

Most companies appreciate the complexity of back-end processes when it comes to ecommerce offerings. But how many pay as much attention when no money’s changing hands? Will you risk building a site that doesn’t connect with the rest of your organisation working behind the scenes?
If you were in the planning stages of building a […]

What was in your mail box on Monday 10th of June? Was it full of world cup fever?
I had nothing to celebrate the victory of Italy, but more to wallow in Frances despair at their captains last and rather violent bow from representing his country. Have a taste and try out […]