When selling rocks to the digirati

It was a genius marketing effort — an effort that should be managed…

5 Steps to Creating Your Accessibility Policy

If you don’t currently have an accessibility policy, here are the steps you should take to create one.

Data localization: how to collect, store, and transfer data from country to country

Data collection, information storage and its transfer across country or regional borders (think Russia, Kazakhstan, Australia, or EU) resides in an increasingly complex realm. As the data…

Webinar: How to Succeed in the Digital World (September 7, 2016–12:30pm EDT)

Many of us assume that we can put up a website, open a twitter account, or start posting our opinions to LinkedIn. But if you are in the pharmaceutical sciences world, and looking to succeed via…

Digital Policy — It’s Your Business

Publishing digital content is a full time job, and for many of us it is one that we very much enjoy. We tend to focus on aspects such as our website UI, mobile application navigation, or SEO optimization.

Governing Software and Navigating Audits

If your company has not received an audit request from a software vendor asking you to validate what aspects of their tools or service you are using in order to assess licensing fees, it is only a matter of time. While many vendors have implemented…

Writing standards for your organization: Creativity born out of structure (Confab Conference September 19–21, 2016)

Digital standards, whether they be for web, social, or mobile publishing, can often be seen as deterrents for innovation and…

Copying another organization’s digital policies is not the answer!

At least once a week I am asked whether it is acceptable to look at the policies developed by other organizations and copy them. After all, the logic goes, the privacy, cookies, accessibility, or any other policy…