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April 4th, 2012

Testing sites: essential tools for the modern Digital Project Manager

When you’re build­ing and test­ing sites there are a lot of things to con­sider. “God is in the details” and all that. You can save time, heartache and avoid hav­ing angry clients by set­ting up your browser with a few lit­tle tools to help you check some of the basics.

stewart-waller: http://www.savvyrow.co.uk

Fire­Bug

For when you absolutely, pos­i­tively have to go into the code your­self and have a dig around. Indis­pens­able lit­tle add-on when trou­bleshoot­ing sites, giv­ing you (the tech-savvy PM) the abil­ity to check the code that builds the site. Also has a handy “Net” tab telling you which files are load­ing (or ever hand­ier, not load­ing).

January 27th, 2011

Digital Couch No. 15 #digitalcouch

Stick­ing with pre­dic­tions for the future from Edison’s insights last week, here are some more near-future articles.

From aug­mented music videos, to wear­able trans­porta­tion, in the cur­rent eco­nomic cli­mate (sic), it’s great to know there are peo­ple out there who still get paid to think out­side the box (also sic). Here are some of the results.

Acti­vate the Future

Thought Lead­er­ship. This is a phrase that gets thrown around more than the ubiq­ui­tous “cur­rent eco­nomic cli­mate”, but what does it actu­ally mean?

Some com­pa­nies feel that thought lead­er­ship is throw­ing out a white paper, or a case study and watch­ing the col­lec­tive audi­ence nod their heads in approval and mar­vel at their insights.