Archive for 'Marketing'

Don’t Let Email Sit in Your Inbox Unpunished

January 11th, 2008 – 5:30 pm

If you’re anything like me, you receive a lot of email. Some days I feel like the only thing I’ve done all day is deal with email! Given the amount of other things that must be done in business, it’s easy to just put it in the “too hard basket” - but that can also […]

The Email Standards Project

November 29th, 2007 – 8:40 am

Many years ago the Web Standards Project (or WASP) fought the fine fight to pressure browser manufacturers into complying with some sort of standard version of HTML. Prior to that we almost had to build separate sites for Netscape and Internet Explorer - it was horrible.
We have come so far with browsers, but unfortunately most […]

Really Bad Powerpoint

October 4th, 2007 – 5:55 pm
Tagged as: Marketing

I was at a meeting recently where a teacher gave a presentation about some stuff the school was involved in. And, of course, she used Powerpoint.
Very badly.
I’m sure you have all seen it. Several paragraphs of text per slide. Cheesy animations (and different animations for each block of text). The “handouts” get handed to you […]