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Brendon J. Wilson
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4 years ago
in Why Employees Should Blog on kev/null
I agree that blogging is a great channel to reach your audience (customers, influencers, etc.); however, I think there's another, more important, role for blogging to play in a company.
The number one problem in any company I've ever been involved with has been communication. Between Engineering and Sales, between Sales and Marketing If nothing more, corporate blogging opens up a channel with one other very important audience: your own employees. I'm willing to bet there will be more use of blogging to enable internal communications than external communications. Of course, those of us on the outside world will probably not have confirmation of this for quite some time.
The number one problem in any company I've ever been involved with has been communication. Between Engineering and Sales, between Sales and Marketing If nothing more, corporate blogging opens up a channel with one other very important audience: your own employees. I'm willing to bet there will be more use of blogging to enable internal communications than external communications. Of course, those of us on the outside world will probably not have confirmation of this for quite some time.
4 years ago
in MMORPG Gaming Studies on kev/null
Let me get this straight - you're a soon to be a user interface guru, and you couldn't find a way to present your results in a usable form? [duck!]
5 years ago
in Spain: Barcelona on kev/null
So, here's the weird thing - the construction of Sagrada Familia doesn't appear to have progressed in any perceptible fashion in seven years. Just look at the photos of the church I took when I went through Europe in 1997!
Then again, the church has been under construction since the late 19th century, so I don't suppose we should expect it to be built any faster.
Then again, the church has been under construction since the late 19th century, so I don't suppose we should expect it to be built any faster.
5 years ago
in Taxes on kev/null
Yeah - same as QuickTaxWeb (both from Intuit, I believe). Especially the whole "send you relentless email about stuff you don't care about ('QuickWill - be sure you're stuff goes to the ones you love so you can hurry up and die already') and refused to accept when you signed up and can't get them to stop sending despite your threats of bodily harm" functionality they have. I love that feature.
5 years ago
in Movable Type Enhancements on kev/null
There's some tricks you can use to get some of the functionality you want...for example, you can jimmy the author icons by using the MTAuthor (I think) tag to point to an image with the same name as the author id.
5 years ago
in On Getting a Bank Account on kev/null
This isn't actually a new policy - it was like that in Ireland when I lived there in 2000, and in England in 1996. That line about it being due to "heightened security" is a total lie. And it's not just banks that require a paid bill, it's everyone. Try getting a video card without a paid utility bill, for example. It's impossible.
Besides being stupid, inefficient, and a really good way to convince people not to do business in your country, this is scary. Since when is a utility company a trusted authority for issuring identity credentials? Sure they know where you live, but really, that's about all they know. And if you don't actually live there, then the bank's screwed anyway. Welcome to the world security snakeoil - where people adopt solutions that are imperfect, short-sighted, insecure, and ultimately worse than the problem they seek to address.
What I wonder: Did this practice evolve due to the lack of a proper credit reporting structure in the UK or something else?
Besides being stupid, inefficient, and a really good way to convince people not to do business in your country, this is scary. Since when is a utility company a trusted authority for issuring identity credentials? Sure they know where you live, but really, that's about all they know. And if you don't actually live there, then the bank's screwed anyway. Welcome to the world security snakeoil - where people adopt solutions that are imperfect, short-sighted, insecure, and ultimately worse than the problem they seek to address.
What I wonder: Did this practice evolve due to the lack of a proper credit reporting structure in the UK or something else?
