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Continuing the 360° Retail theme that I started in July this is the next instalment - that when completed you will have the fundamentals of a 360° Retail Guide. Staff & Operations In retail one of the biggest assets is of course the staff. These are the customer facing element of the retail business. They hold such value that ...

Here is the recording of the 1st session from the 2nd Silverlight User Group as hosted by Conchango on Thursday 14th August 2008.   The session was given by Microsoft's Mike Taulty on No Silverlight Application is an Island.   A big thanks to Ian Smith for recording the event and editing the footage.   Silverlight ...

Following up quickly from my last blog - where do I see some of the key highlights and what Conchango are talking about with our clients and potential clients is how you structure ''your cloud'' in order to make it accessible, visible and indexed correctly. Gone are the days where you can just pump content and data up to a virtual storage ...

I have been writing for a while on the topics that I am directly working on a day to day basis or have a passion about - Digital Media! However I do have another that brings the engineer and geek out in me is the emmerging SaaS / Cloud / Web Platforms that have been bubbling around for a while and are now starting to reall take shape in some ...

In my last blog - I touched on the power of the games industry and how they are now shaping the way that consumer enjoy their multi-media experiences at home. This has been a long hard struggle for these companies and have had many peaks and troughs over the decades to try and get to the point where we are today. At the same time games retailers ...

Looking at the 2 stories that interested me over the last few days  - Radiohead - In Rainbow stats and Tap Tap downloads... First Radiohead - in one month October to November in 2007 In Rainbows was downloaded a staggering 2.3 million times across Torrent sites. That is a huge figure that stunned the industry when the figures were finally ...

OK, before I begin let me just reiterate one more time just why I keep going on about this any what experience / authority do I have in this area! I have been working in the music area for almost 20 years - most of that right in the ''coal face'' within retail and watching very closely as digital arrived and then continuing this journey even now ...

Stuart Harris is going to be joining the Conchango team on Monday as a Senior Technical Consultant.  I can tell he is going to join the Bloggers here quickly as he is already a keen blogger.  Since I have been mentioned in one of his blogs thought I would share it with you as gives an insight into the Conchango recruitment process.

Alex Mackey has contacted me about a new .Net User Group which has been set up in the Surrey area.  DevEvening has had 3 sessions so far and all content and presentations are given by the members themselves. If you live in the Surrey area and struggle to get into London for the London .Net User Group we host then this could be what you ...

Mark Mann has been busy organising the speakers for our event on Thursday 14th August. For the agenda click here. The list is closed to developers (sorry) but we have a number of designer places left so mail me on michelle.flynn@conchango.com if you are interested.