kerndter.net

Communication Experts - Foodies - Human Beings

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Achill Island, Co. Mayo
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What do we have to offer?

Business Communication

"External" through Communication and Service (Skill) Training (latter especially for the Restaurant and Hospitality, but also the Retail Industry), as well as Marketing (including Social Media Marketing and Internet Marketing in general).

"Internal" through Team Development and Training.

Web Services

Including Web Design, Website Development, Website Maintenance, Community Management (e.g. Facebook), Search Engine Optimisation and Marketing, Quality Assurance and more ...

How do we work?

We love working with you, so our approach will have a strong mentoring aspect (where possible). We want to enable you to make the best of your assets!

What else?

We are determined to build a long-lasting trust-based working relationship (if desired and possible). But we are not afraid to let go if there is no 'spark'.

Chris Kerndter - Web TechnologistChris Kerndter
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Web Technologist

Check out my references at http://www.whichwebdesigncompany.com/ie/profile/achillonline
or see references mentioned in the archive of this blog

Mobile: +353 86 3685355
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I am available for bigger projects from the 1st week of September. Contact me now!

Sandra Kerndter - Restaurant & Hospitality ConsultantSandra Kerndter
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Restaurant & Hospitality Consultant

Mobile: +353 86 3704445
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Please consider your enviromental responsibility before printing this website ;-)

What we have to say

Chris says:

“ I support the Manifesto for Agile Software Development ”

Principles behind the Agile Manifesto

We follow these principles:

  • Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.
  • Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness change for the customer’s competitive advantage.
  • Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale.
  • Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.
  • Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.
  • The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.
  • Working software is the primary measure of progress.
  • Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
  • Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.
  • Simplicity–the art of maximizing the amount of work not done–is essential.
  • The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.
  • At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more effective, then tunes and adjusts its behavior accordingly.

If you feel that you could adopt these principles, you can sign the manifesto here, too.

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Chris is sharing the following (via Google Shared Items):

“ Google Wave to Be Discontinued ”

Google's blog announced that Google Wave, the innovative communication platform released last year, will be discontinued.

"Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don't plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects. The central parts of the code, as well as the protocols that have driven many of Wave's innovations, like drag-and-drop and character-by-character live typing, are already available as open source, so customers and partners can continue the innovation we began."

Google Wave has a lot of interesting features, but the interface is confusing and difficult to use. While many thought that Google Wave will reinvent email, Google's service combined an online document editor with an instant messenger. Google Wave allows you to create "live" documents that are edited collaboratively in real-time, but it's more than a conversational version of Google Docs. It's based on an open protocol, so you can edit a wave using multiple services. It's extensible, so you can build gadgets and robots that add new functionality.

Google Wave had a lot of potential, but Google didn't manage to build a compelling user experience and define some use cases for the application. Instead of building a general-purpose interface for Google Wave, Google could've used the platform to create multiple applications with clearly-defined goals: a new version of Google Chat, a new version of Google Docs, a brainstorming app etc.

Now that Google Wave is discontinued, some of its feature will be added to other Google services (Gmail, Google Docs), but the platform will vanish. It's clear that Google doesn't want to invest in niche services, which is a big opportunity for startups. "We want to do things that matter to a large number of people at scale," said Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, in an interview.

Chris is sharing the following (via Google Shared Items):

“ Drag and drop attachments to save them to your desktop ”

Posted by Adam de Boor, Software EngineerDragging and dropping files is an easy way to save time in Gmail. We’ve previously blogged about dragging files to upload as attachments and dragging images into new messages. Now, if you're using Google Chrome, you can also drag attachments out of messages you receive to save them to your computer. (more...)

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“ Google Multiple Sign-in, Now Available ”

Google is rolling out a feature I mentioned in a previous post: signing in to multiple Google accounts simultaneously from the same browser. When you go to the Google accounts page, you might see a new option: "multiple sign-in". If you don't see the new feature, it will probably be enabled soon. (more...)

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“ No One Nos: Learning to Say No to Bad Ideas ”

You can't create what clients need when you're too busy saying yes to everything they want. As a user experience designer, it's your job to say no to bad ideas and pointless practices. But getting to no is never easy. Proven techniques that can turn vocal negatives into positive experiences for you, the client, and most importantly, the end-user include citing best practices and simple but powerful business cases; proving your point with numbers; shifting focus from what to who; using the "positive no"; and, when necessary, pricing yourself out.

Chris is sharing the following (via Google Shared Items):

“ Kick Ass Kickoff Meetings ”

Too many kickoff meetings squander the busiest, most expensive people's time reiterating what everyone already knows. If every meeting is an opportunity, why waste your first one? By asking stakeholders tough questions before the kick-off, and using the meeting itself to explore ideas and build relationships, you can turn a room of mutually suspicious turf battlers into an energetic team with shared ownership of the end-product and the kind of bond that can sustain the group through the challenges ahead.

Chris says:

“ What is the value of a facebook fan? ”

I believe that this is a question that many businesses who have facebook pages are asking. Is it worth all the trouble of maybe even employing somebody to manage a facebook community?

Engaging in communication with a loyal customer base and especially new customers is probably the most important aspect of a business. Whatever business it is! If you do not communicate, you will have no business.

So what is the value?

Syncapse has carried out an empirical survey/review, in which they examined the six leading contributors to facebook fan value (more…)

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Chris says:

“ Read how journalism works today in the “Internet Manifesto” ”

1. The Internet is different.

It produces different public spheres, different terms of trade and different cultural skills. The media must adapt their work methods to today’s technological reality instead of ignoring or challenging it.  It is their duty to develop the best possible form of journalism based on the available technology. This includes new journalistic products and methods.

2. The Internet is a pocket-sized media empire.

The web rearranges existing media structures (more…)

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“ Passing The Holy Milestone: How To Meet Deadlines ”

For too many projects, there comes a time when every action taken, every decision and sacrifice made, is spurred on by pressure to finish. Tempers seem to shrink along with the available days, talk about “high standards” gives way to “good enough,” and people realize that deadlines are aptly named. During the last-minute crunch, someone may well wonder, how did it come to this? Could it have been prevented?Every Web project has deadlines. But not every designer or developer deals with them the same way. (more...)

Chris says:

“ Indexing and Searching PDFs with WordPress is now possible ”

Indexing PDFs is now possible for WordPress. Download the Index PDFs Plugin (zip zip, 7.55 kB) here (Sorry, I did not have the time to upload it to WordPress)

The function was a requirement for a project and as i did not find any plugin for it John Blackbourn was so nice to develop it.
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