Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by admin
WRATH - blaming the customer for not caring
The last sin in our series happens when all that excitement over your site launch is a distant memory and you start to hear the murmurings of another site redesign. The lack of post launch editorial planning has started to destroy that great design that you agonised over. [...]
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Posted on May 14th, 2008 by admin
GLUTTONY - just stuff the content in without thinking
We’ve all been there. You know this “content stuff” is important and you know you need a lot of it so you grab big chunks of it and throw it all on the plate.
But the best websites are like a balanced meal, not a bargain [...]
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Posted on May 8th, 2008 by w00tonomy
LUST - project blindness and desire to deliver
Businesses and agencies love projects. The project world is a familiar and comfortable place for us all; we know how to scrum, scope, budget,and deliver. And to put icing on the cake we enjoy that great feeling of hitting the finishing line, the launch party.
Too [...]
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Posted on May 7th, 2008 by w00tonomy
ENVY - not understanding how others succeeded
Online, your message is fighting for the attention of the user alone against the rest of the internet. There are no sectors, there are no walls. The internet is one vast open playing field. And your message is up against the BBC, YouTube and blogs about kittens.
You’ve [...]
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Posted on May 5th, 2008 by w00tonomy
SLOTH - failure to plan beyond launch
This is the sin of indifference to your content and failure to make the most of what you have. It always happens after the dust of the project delivery has settled. The hustle and bustle of the project review meetings are a distant memory of post-it notes [...]
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Posted on April 11th, 2008 by stewart @ w00tonomy
Stewart Kirkpatrick, our Content Marketing Director, has induced a bout of vomiting at w00tonomy with this self-serving communique:
“I have been elected to the New Media Industry Council of the National Union of Journalists (in a jobshare with Euan Williamson of Imagineering). Like nearly every large body, the NUJ has struggled with what the web means [...]
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Posted on March 2nd, 2008 by w00tonomy
Along with seemingly every other agency in Scotland we at w00tonomy have just completed the pre-qualification questionnaire, the first stage in the process of trying to become one of the companies that supplies digital marketing services to the Scottish Government. It’s a massive contract so the PQQ is a big deal.
Of course, we weren’t phased [...]
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Posted on February 28th, 2008 by w00tonomy
Dr Graham Jones
From Bolton, Graham brings to the company unprecedented levels of northern grimness, expertise in keeping coal in the bath and a mistaken belief that there is some kind of nobility in perpetual footballing failure. He holds a doctorate in “Y’know Doctorology N Stuff” from the respected Correspondence College of West Dakota (Cash Only). [...]
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