Conchango: 15 minute site review
January 2, 2008
Word on the web is that Conchango is to become listed on AIM from 15 January … I thought I’d have a quick look at their site, to see how it’s going.
Conchango and AIM Rule 26
There are a few key elements missing on the site at the moment, that will be necessary to comply with AIM Rule 26 requirements.
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Spoof all too close to reality
December 10, 2007
Seamus McCauley points us to a delicious spoof of a corporate website at Buy n Large. Thing is, even the name sounds plausible.
The design of the home page is just right (for today’s view of an up-to-date site - the view in 2057 may be very different): curvy web 2.0 content elements, clean design, lots of white space and a bit of movement to add vibrancy.
Do check out the small print at the bottom: by visiting the BnL web site you instantly relinquish all claims against the BnL corporation …
I’m not going to quote the mission statement; go and read it for yourself by clicking on the image. Better yet, go and visit the site itself - read the privacy statement while you’re there.
If I were reviewing this site for real, I’d recommend using fewer stock images, though here they’re part of the joke.
The news section is laid out with different sections for the different audiences, and all the news releases are there. I think it unlikely that a corporate site would have so many adverts on their media page - even if they were for corporate products. But the adverts all work, in that they load further pages with product detail on.
As a spoof site, this is fabulous, and I’m already looking forward to the film. As a real corporate site, I’d have a few concerns … but who’s to say what the great corporate sites will look like in another 50 years?
My prediction is that they’ll be much more interactive (by whatever means will be available then) and customised for the visitor. This has no interactive features, and that would be my main recommendation, were it a real site.
What do you make of it?
Site Review: ArcelorMittal’s TV channel
November 21, 2007
ArcelorMittal are doing a great job of communication over at Creating History.
This site is dedicated to the merger of Arcelor and Mittal, and consists of:
- excellent video materials - 15 so far, posted intermittently over several months, covering a range of topics associated with the merger
- a blog - which appears to have been updated on a very regular basis (looks like 5 times a week, which as we know, is very intensive)
- RSS feed and podcasts
- a section for ‘ask the CEO’ - in which Lakshmi Mittal will personally answer questions. This does look a bit outdated, and really should be removed if the answers won’t be forthcoming - or else they should be answered
- a press area, including third party coverage - again, this doesn’t seem to have been updated recently
- an About section.
Annual Reports: the new-look British Library
November 14, 2007
Bowen Craggs point out the great new approach that the British Library have taken to their annual report - the inclusion of video profiles of their executive team in the corporate governance section, discussing the Library. The chairman and chief executive have separate pages, each with several more video clips on. The video profiles for the management team all come with transcripts and biographies.
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Blog review: Dell’s IR blog
November 9, 2007
As I’m sure you know by now, Dell launched the first Investor Relations blog just over a week ago, to quite a bit of comment around the patch, and they’ve got a couple of posts up now.
This blog is a really very interesting addition to the IR site, and Dell are typically brave to be the first (though I suppose someone has to!). I’m sure it won’t be long before other companies join them … Read more