WebProductive are happy to announce that we are now partners with Kentico. Kentico is a Content Management System that allows WebProductive to provide our clients with high quality and integrated websites.[...]

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Kentico is now powering our very own website in addition to all of our clients sites - time to taste our medicine and see just how easy it is to use.[...]

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Google Apps working successfully in your organisation isn't a given, and there are a number of factors that can mean failure for a deployment.[...]

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Walk down the average street in the average town in the UK, and you have to wonder what the Internet and social media can do for small businesses. [...]

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There are some things you just shouldn't do when you're going about change in your organisation. This article looks at a few of these.[...]

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When you embark on a new web project of any significance, there will always be a design phase - where someone creative will attempt to put onto a computer screen what's in your brain.  This can be a tricky process, one which is much derided by designers, who think that clients can't possibly ordain to know what they want.

The problem is that both the client and the designer have points. I've tried to note down a few ideas and suggestions that might ease the process.
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You’re about to embark upon a foray into web working – perhaps adopting a cloud email, diary or collaboration software, or indeed taking a step towards on-line productivity tools like a word processor or spreadsheet.

You’re pretty sure you can get the thing switched on, but what then? Will your team take to it without issue, or will you need to offer a carrot, or beat them with a stick?

It’s a case of knowing your horse (or worforce) to know whether coercion or motivation will work best – but the following thoughts may help.
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For any change that hits your business, general change management wisdom has it that there are broadly speaking 4 types of reaction when confronted with this change.

For this blog post, I wanted to merely stipulate who these people are, and a few (in my opinion) interesting things about them. You might disagree, and you might have heard different, if so, post your comments!
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Work, life,computers and everything!  Everything we do tells us to love ‘the document’. We love them – we have files for them, paper in set sizes, programs that make documents in a certain size, than can be printed and put into our folders and into our filing cabinets.  This brings into a focus a problem that web tools face – and also an opportunity.
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There’s this thing called Productivity and it’s all around us, like ‘the force’, and it governs how much work you can get done, how happy you feel about it, and whether what you do is good enough quality to please your client, please your boss or win you some work.
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I know I like change, but 2010 so far has taken the mickey a little. So much change, many positive, some negative and now I'm hoping for a period of calm to get on with making these changes part of my life.
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The snow has once again brought parts of the UK to a standstill, with many people not able to get to work. In central London so far this morning, it is more a case of people not even venturing outdoors rather than there being actual snow on actual roads – but its the (scary) thought that counts![...]

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At WebProductive, the turn of the year is always a time to reflect and organise. Sometimes, that reflection goes a bit left-field, and I wanted to share a thought I had about Chameleons.[...]

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When you know a major change is coming, how motivated do you feel?  Sometimes you’ll be energised and your activities will be vigorous and energetic. Other times you might be lethargic, delayed and inactive. When your organisation is implementing a new web system, what do these two differing mind-sets tell us about the way the project is going?

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An article recently @ Web Worker Daily by Pamela Poole talked about the important message of not overestimating the tech-savy of possible clients: http://webworkerdaily.com/2009/10/26/dont-overestimate-the-tech-savvy-of-your-clients/.  The basic premise was that some people you work with simply won’t be as IT literate and up to speed on all things web as you might be.[...]

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