UPDATED: 2020 Oct 29

In the fight to combat the spread of COVID-19, governments throughout the world have been considering the use of digital contact-tracing apps. Contact-tracing apps seek to interrupt the onward transmission of the coronavirus by identifying and notifying recent contacts of an infected person in an anonymous fashion. Privacy issues have been central to the considerations of how such technology should be implemented to achieve this important public health objective with the least impact on the privacy of individuals.

There is no "Small" and "Large" business anymore in your customer's mind. You're just "there", or better…

Apple just shot across the bow of marketers. But did anybody notice?

It has been put-on-your-gloves scrap time for so many businesses in so many sectors.  The COVID-19 pandemic has forced an urgent soul-searching re-examination of how to connect with customers, how to deliver our products and services to customers, and also who our customers are now, and what, exactly we are even offering to them.

It's already started. The research was easy to see. Businesses with established and matured digital platforms, workflows, and cultures underpinning their businesses are in a place where they can continue operating, profiting, and generally keeping the lights on. Those that have not cultured their digital platforms and teams are in a place many can relate these days: disrupted or non-existent sales and sales-fulfillment processes that are separated from main marketing initiatives.

It's already started. The research was easy to see. Businesses with established and matured digital platforms, workflows, and cultures underpinning their businesses are in a place where they can continue operating, profiting, and generally keeping the lights on. Those that have not cultured their digital platforms and teams are in a place many can relate these days: disrupted or non-existent sales and sales-fulfillment processes that are separated from main marketing initiatives

As with all things business, Data Migration must be valued by all the standard benchmarks of productivity, business analysis, reporting, trends, and opportunity.

Imagine you have a warehouse. It has one front door for staff and customers and one loading bay in the back. You have a security company that rotates two security personnel to walk around the perimeter of the warehouse every hour and go inside the building to monitor the security system, cameras, and alarms.

In recent months it's come to our attention some of the various digital businesses we've come into contact with, worked with or had some level of dicussion or exposure to their business. And of these businesses one thing has stuck out; businesses that shy away from engaging a global customer base eventually shrink or wither away.

Thousands of runs in and out of our extremely narrow driveway re-wires your brain. I'm convinced of that.

EURid, the governing body of the .eu regulatory framework - similar to ICANN for .com and CIRA for .ca - recently issued a policy update outlining the changes for UK citizens once Brexit comes into effect. 

The world has stumbled into a dependence on Google Maps. Addiction, really – and Google knows it.

If you have a website, you have logs. If you have an ECommerce website, you have more logs; more important logs. If you have a deeper online presence including applications, reporting, financials, integrated systems, and customer accounts, you have even more important logs.

Thinking about redesigning your website? Think again.

Has business overplayed plugin mentality?