Important! My blog articles have evolved recently. You need to see this.
Single handedly the best web design conference of 2009…
Seriously, I mean that. Who’d have thought that Belfast would be holding one of the most prestigious and kick ass conferences of the year? Every single aspect of Buildconf last week was absolutely perfect.
Taking inspiration from the likes of Dustin Curtis, Jason Santa Maria and Gregory Wood, I am in the process of creating my own ‘blogazine‘. Each post on it will have it’s own custom design, based upon the content.
Here’s a sneak preview of the design so far:
I’m working on my first article and finalizing the blogazine’s design at the minute but you can follow me to find out when it launches.
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Without much fanfare, a sneaky little redesign appeared at I Am Paddy in the dead of night. In my Live creation process blog posts: Inspiration and Sketching, something quite different was forming, but the blog your looking at now is becoming a thing of the past. I’ve got something far more interesting than a regular blog in the works, but I needed to replace this blog with a simpler design.
I did a lot of quick slashing of the content, links and widgets from the old site, which were dragging the site down and making it look so so messy. Simplicity is key for this site and I wanted to keep it at the bare minimum. There’s still a few bugs here and there as I haven’t been over all my old blog posts to see how they’re holding up, but that should be fixed soon.
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That Monday morning feeling seems to spread like wildfire across Twitter. Tweets tend to have a bit more frustration in them at this time of the week, and I’m no exception.
Here’s a collection of Monday morning tweets in my stream today. Don’t worry, Tuesday is just around the corner, then it’s mid-week, which is practically the weekend. :)
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‘Twitter, Twitter, Twitter’. No doubt this is what is being said in most board meetings across the globe at present. With the power of social media becoming more and more evident, we are seeing companies trying their hardest to force services like Twitter and Facebook into the way they conduct business. Often, if not properly thought out, it can have the opposite effect that the company set out to achieve.
One recent case of this is Debenhams, where they have appointed 6 customer assistants to interact with customers, giving them information, helping them out…via Twitter! What? Surely this is one of the times when you want to interact with a real life person, no?
It also opened up the floor for conversations like the following, which made me chuckle.
To be fair to the @Debenhamsretail staff, they saw the funny side, but should every company have a social media strategy or should they be focusing on improving their customer service as a whole?