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Entries For: 2007
- January (3)
Free Range IT
"There are enormous divides between IT engineering and the 'creative' Communications and Marketing cultures. Prior to the web, these cultures rarely interacted. Today, they are constantly struggling to bridge the gaps." - Peter Fraterdeus, Free Range IT
Creative staff on the marketing team have an update for the corporate web site.
A new campaign is planned with significant online components, interactive web surveys, and media.
They turn to the IT staff to implement server and software improvements, only to be told that their projects are on the backburner due to other IT priorities.
There's a clear need for IT departments to conform to the 21st century realities of the network as a corporate strategic asset which has far less to do with internal resources than with responding with agility to the demands of a consumer driven marketplace.
How have designers learned to deal with the cultural clashes within organizations?
Have you found it's easier dealing with third-party IT suppliers?
Without their own corporate turf to defend, out-sourced hosting and development houses have much stronger incentive to include designers and communication planners in their management teams.
What are your experiences?
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Apologies and encouragement!
Apologies because we've been remiss in getting this site rolling. I've been meaning to migrate the original site to Plone 2.5, with its far more comprehensive foundations, more secure and configurable membership, and solid forward migration path to the upcoming features of Plone 3.0 and beyond. I've decided to simply migrate the small amount of content by hand, and start fresh in Plone 2.5.2
The migration from Plone 2.0.5 was just not practical.
So, if you had already joined the site, you will have to re-join now.
I hope to see dezineCafé flourish, with new Web 2 features, blogs, RSS, multimedia options, and so forth. However, it's going to take some doing, and your help!
Please let me know what you think. The contact link will send mail to me directly, and I promise to make every effort to reply in good time!
Hot or Iced?
Dezine Cafe, after a long respite, has been re-established at this new lovely corner location! Now in Plone 2.5!
Hot or Iced?
Dezine Cafe, after a long respite, has been re-established. Now that Plone provides a solid, design conscious, and secure framework for our development, we will begin to build again. "designdigerati":http://www.designdigerati.com will provide our first invitation! Please join our conversation!
Please help us celebrate the next ten years of Dezine Cafe!