Category: blogging

Yours, Mine, and Ours

Something that should be required reading for everyone involved in marketing higher education: Yours, Mine, and Ours: How Simplicity and Transparency Are Building the Web 2.0 is a white paper prepared for Dartmouth ‘s web publishing services by Chris Boone of Hypsometry. This paper provides an excellent overview of the interconnectedness of the web and how it challenges our standard modes of operation. We can’t control this medium. At best, we can manage parts of it and influence other parts.

Link via the Future of PR wiki.

Blogs, branding, Computers and Internet, higher education, Internet, Marketing, Media, public relations, PR

‘WOW and COOL’ = LAME and USELESS

So says Josh Hallett of hyku blog, who reports:

I received a web brief for a project I have been asked to consult on. One line in particular sticks out (when discussing the attributes of the web site):

break through the clutter with a WOW and COOL web presence

That’s just the problem, WOW and COOL usually end up becoming Flash-based, lame and foster no long-term relationship with the user, just like every other ‘edgy’ site. Making your web site WOW and COOL means you are the clutter.

branding, design, Marketing, web, web design