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In 2011 Google did the unthinkable or for a lot of people, the “about time” by dropping their all new Panda algorithm that would change the old school way that it had spidered and indexed sites previously. This in part was a pre-cursor for Google+ and more social results, but more importantly to weed out and drop the spam and poor content that ...

Hello,  Well, this is a tricky blog post to write, but let's cut straight to it. After May 31st 2011, I will no longer be at EMC Consulting. I've decided that after 18 years of working, and 12 years at EMC Consulting (Conchango and OS Integration) that it's time for a bit of a rest! This company, its people and clients, have been a ...

The recent, and rather public, admission from Epsilon that they had their servers breached by hackers and customer data had been accessed is another very public embarrassment for companies that do not take both data security and network security seriously. When I mean serious, I don't just mean that we have principles, guidelines and protocol ...

I realized that I haven't been on here since 2010 with a post about how times have changed within Retail where it used to be a big NO having cameras in your store http://tinyurl.com/Madman2010 Since then, I have blogged elsewhere, written papers, produced music and other good stuff... So 2011, and a return to where it all started with my ...

Last week eConsultancy reviewed the new River Island site and published their findings, it was also voted Site of the Week by New Media Age.  The reason for this blog is that our team here at EMC Consulting designed and built the site and we are very proud of the results. Here is the full article. “Fashion retailer River Island relaunched ...

Just some general notes around this retailer, after finding a news article (linked ahead). Nordstrom's new approach to combining web-based and store-based inventories is earning them some significant success - Nordstrom Links Online Inventory to Real World. If there's something out there that you're interested in buying, their online shop will ...

My how we have come a long way since I first began in Retail, goodness that was over 20 years ago! Back then we had no internet, comparison shopping was walking down main street, or the emerging shopping malls. Social Commerce was listening to what your friends had said about a product or store, and whatever the store had information ...

Well I’ve been here (the good ol’ US of A) for over two weeks now, my how the time has flown! And what are the major differences on this side of the pond vs UK? Is what I intend to write about here and when I can I’ll update on some of the work that I’m doing with the team out here. First off I guess, everything is just bigger! I know it’s ...

If you’ve been following our activities with customer-led innovation events such as V-Jam that took place with NESTA and Virgin Atlantic last year, and most recently T-Jam (see what we did there?!) with Tesco.com, you might be interested in an update. So here’s one for T-Jam: Customer-led innovation is about giving a set of bright thinkers who ...