Rounding out a month full of IABC (International Association of Business Communicators) activity, I was privileged to speak to Edmonton’s local IABC chapter today as part of their final professional development session of the year.
We spent a few days in Toronto last week at the IABC World Conference talking with communications professionals from around the world about their websites. Over the course of the few days we were in Toronto, we had many interesting conversations about all the challenges that communicators face in their organizations.
The previous version of our website got a lot of really great response from around the web. Over the past two years it has been featured on a multitude of web design galleries and even listed on a few “best of” lists. It’s been great, but things on the web change really quickly and we want to follow our own advice by freshening things up before they get too dated.
Chance is not the absence of causality but rather the achievement of one end while seeking another. ~Aristotle
Or rather…
[excerpt from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard]
(Rosencrantz has been flipping a coin and it has come up heads every time.)
Rosencrantz: Eighty-nine.
Guildenstern: It must be indicative of something, besides the redistribution of wealth. (He muses.) List of possible explanations. One: I’m willing it. Inside ...
Taken from Strunk and White’s book, the Elements of Style. The book delivers a clear outline to make your communication clear, concise, and direct and here are a few things to consider when creating your message:
Great websites link out and don’t try to hide the fact that the web is a serious of connected entities. Making sure that we open external links in the same window instead of opening new windows and tabs actually encourages users to return to our site because they can click the back button and return more quickly.
I was having coffee the other day with a friend who has a lot of I.T. experience. He’s seen it all. We were discussing the fact that a university student is redesigning his organization’s website and he’s a bit skeptical that it’s going to go well.
The student may have a lot of talent and may even have some experience but he’s not a ...
In a little over a month, my girlfriend and I will be moving from our downtown apartment into a suburban home in North Edmonton. I’ve never actually owned a property and have always enjoyed the freedom from the necessity of maintenance that renting offers. If there’s a problem, I simply call my landlord and they come out and fix it free of charge.
Ownership is different though. For ...
2009 was an exciting year of growth for Lift – staffing, space, clientele and revenue. We experienced so much forward movement, in fact, that it landed us a spot on Alberta Venture’s 2010 Fast Growth 50 list. Needless to say, we’re honoured and thrilled to be among such glowing company – all innnovative, enterprising businesses, determined to not only keep themselves afloat during last year’s downturn, but actually emerge ...
We’ve all heard over and over about how we should be keeping things under source control – and for important sites, you probably do. But what about static sites? Do you keep them under source control, or do you just edit them manually?
I’ve recently been busy moving some of my own static sites from one server to another, which has given me a good opportunity to examine my ...