Tag: digital
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Learning that compromise doesn’t equal failure
I was on holiday in Africa this week, leaving product behind and heading for the mountains and the sun. Whenever I’m away I tend to keep a sneaky eye on anything involving developers, because issues that arise there are usually the most complicated to fix, and I’m the one who knows what shade of yellow […]
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Five minutes with a user
General Assembly at the moment are running a series of free introductory seminars in various specialist areas. They’ve been great, I’d definitely recommend signing up to a couple if you have the time. Last week I went to one on user experience design and I thought I’d share a highlight of the session. Usually when a […]
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Adopting a ‘start where you are’ approach to digital
A few months ago, I went to one of the really great (and free!) digital seminars run by Precedent Communications. The main takeaway for digital progress in an organisation was to “start where you are”, which was interesting for me as one of the things I was working on at the time was creating a […]
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Removing redundant web content
This blog is about removing redundant web content from a large site. Before I start, I should say that a much more sensible person would have got an agency to do this. At several points during the process (which I started in October) I’ve thought I was being far too stubbornly INTJ about the whole […]
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Upscaling server capacity – part 1
At Time to Change we generally get around 1000 visitors to the site a day. On peak days, like World Mental Health Day, this might double, but there’s enough flex in our server capacity to manage that without issue. Once a year though, the first Thursday in February, we run Time to Talk Day – […]
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How Mind managed to publish breaking news, from 2011
Today a totally ridiculous coincidence happened, which I want to document somehow since it was fun to fix and will probably never happen again. What happened: When Mind launched their new website back in November 2012, we hired a keen team of digital volunteers to set about the tedious task of migrating content from one […]
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