Communication Experts - Foodies - Human Beings
Achill Island, Co. Mayo
Ireland
Skype: cbkerndter
"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.
Including Web Design, Website Development, Website Maintenance, Community Management (e.g. Facebook), Search Engine Optimisation and Marketing, Quality Assurance and more ...
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!
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 KerndterWeb Technologist
Check out my references at http://www.whichwebdesigncompany.com/ie/profile/achillonline
or see references mentioned in the archive of this blog
I am available for bigger projects from the 1st week of September. Contact me now!
Sandra KerndterRestaurant & Hospitality Consultant
VAT reg Number: IE7437860C
Please consider your enviromental responsibility before printing this website ;-)
This WordPress-Website is using a minimalistic custom design and so far the following plugins: Contact Form 7, FD Feedburner Plugin, Headspace2, Redirection, Search Everything, Top Level Categories, W3 Cache and Yoast Breadcrumbs.
The template is optimised to be as sleek as possible and already now, without any compression on the server enabled it does not exceed 100KB.
The site will probably go live somewhen next week. For a preview, see interactions.kerndter.net
Yesterday we had a family day out, as usually on sundays. We took the kids to the fun fair in keel, where they enjoyed themselves very much sliding down the bouncy castle slide and riding the caroussel. Afterwards we went to the playground in Keel to get them exhausted a bit.
We found a mobile phone, (more…)
This Website is driven by a highly-customised WordPress 3.0 “Thelonius” installation, using a custom design and the following plugins: AddThis Sidebar & Social Bookmarking Widget, Category Order, Category Page, Contact Form 7, FD Feedburner Plugin, Headspace2, Index PDFs, My Link Order, Redirection, Search Everything, Top Level Categories, WordPress Download Monitor, WP Super Edit, Yoast Breadcrumbs.
Of course, they won’t tell us officially that pagespeed is part of the google algorithm. But already in November 2009 Matt Cutts from Google spoke Page Speed about this topic at the PubCon in Las Vegas. He is a fluffy guy when beeing asked about hard facts, I like him and I also like his way of telling us whats going on, without telling us.
Here is an updated Map of the Westnet Coverage:
Westnet will be reviewing the situation in uncovered areas during the next months. If you are not sure, wether you will get coverage in your location you can call me +353 86 368 5355 or call Westnet 1850 930 305
Yesterday Google added new languages to it’s Machine Translation Services. Good news for the Irish is that “an teanga gaelach” as Google translates “the Gaelic Language” was now added. Unfortunately I do not speak any irish, so I will let you judge about the quality.
I just recently read an article about the basics of visual communication and it struck me that the rules that apply to a good speech or offline presentation also apply to your online presentation.
Did you know that you actually only 30% remember of what you see? (more…)
After organising, filtering and sorting my stream of Information and structuring my day through task management I usually get down to business.
Some days are still messy and unorganised, as little requests keep on coming in: phone calls, email, things I remember I wanted to check but didn’t bother putting into my task manager. These things happen. My goal is to react to client requests within an hour. Even if it’s just a quick reply, telling that I will be looking into the requested matter within a certain time frame. For me this is one of the most important ways of building a good relationship to my customers.
I also found out over time that it is me messing up my days, because I want to. This happens mostly, when I am tired, unfocused and bored with the stuff I should be doing. It’s not the others, it’s 80% me.
So when I actually get down to do some “real” work I need to track the time I spend on a project and client. I use to different approaches: (more…)
In this stream of information there will always be some tasks. So usually before I start working on these, i will always organise them using a task manager of some sort. I used to du this with Outlook, but as I told you before, I have switched from Microsoft products and while doing this it was important for me to find a solution, through which I could access my data from anywhere. (more…)