I wonder if the 'players liked those photos'...??

The treatment dished out to uncle john is so typical...

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There's so much I could say...

any excuse hey mate.

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dane's trolling again

Why is the comms dept spamming non Carlton related advertising in the news section of the website?

http://www.carltonfc.com.au/news/newsar ... fault.aspx

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There's so much I could say...

Gold Coast Suns have taken their first Carlton representative - Stephen Wilson of Communications ('Media Manager') sent his farewell email around yesterday. He is taking up the same job for GC Suns.

Good on him...good career move. Hopefully the incumbent to Stephen's job understands Comms from a sporting organisation pov...and is able to take on a greater area of responsibility than Stephen had.

Did Coutts go with him as a "Buy one get one free" deal?

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And so while others miserably pledge themselves to the pursuit of ambition and brief power, I will be stretched out in the shade, singing.

Interesting to see Adelaide has someone from the club who posts of changes to training times/location as well as if the session will be closed or opened. Not everyone has a facebook account.

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showthrea ... st20197482

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"You are being watched. The government has a secret system. A machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I know because I built it." - Finch

Apparently Essendon* will be abandoning their independance with respect to their website later this year. They will return to the AFL/Telstra fold.

Just goes to show how lucrative the Telstra deal is and how difficult it is to turn a decent dollar online for a sporting club.

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The Spirit of Carlton compels you!

Doesn't mean we should never have considered it properly from the start, and continue to consider it. Especially as we have Australia's second Telco as a major sponsor.

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And so while others miserably pledge themselves to the pursuit of ambition and brief power, I will be stretched out in the shade, singing.

It also ignores the fact that former players Hird and Lloyd made a nice little "earner" free of salary cap restraints.

I was wanting to look at something late last night, so I thought I'd quickly look at the CarltonFC website on my iPhone.

Big mistake.

It's nothing short of an abomination. What's more, it' not even our site. It's a generic portal.

The mobile site makes the regular site look like an award winning piece of web design.

FIX IT.

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And so while others miserably pledge themselves to the pursuit of ambition and brief power, I will be stretched out in the shade, singing.

We didn't even have a mobile site until this week...

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29 different attributes,
And only 7 that you like;
20 ways to see the world,
Or 20 ways to start a fight.

We'd be better off without a 'mobile' site, and stick with people navigating the regular site on their iPhones.

Yes, it's that bad.

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And so while others miserably pledge themselves to the pursuit of ambition and brief power, I will be stretched out in the shade, singing.

Maybe give it a week while the finish testing, then actually implement the individualised content. I haven't checked, but I'd suggest http://m.afl.com.au is identical to http://m.carltonfc.com.au

And now I have - it is.

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29 different attributes,
And only 7 that you like;
20 ways to see the world,
Or 20 ways to start a fight.

Geez, back off KK, they've got a lot on their plate.

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"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds." - Frank Zappa

One of these days you blokes are going to recognise I'm throwing you the assist.

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29 different attributes,
And only 7 that you like;
20 ways to see the world,
Or 20 ways to start a fight.

I was tempted to use it, but thought maybe that was too obvious, even for me

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And so while others miserably pledge themselves to the pursuit of ambition and brief power, I will be stretched out in the shade, singing.

The company where I work (as a designer/marketing assistant) operates like this.

- Someone sees something someone else has done, then walks into my office and says "Let's do that" on an absolute whim, even if the deadline is unrealistic and it would mean an inferior product, or would not be worth the cost
- I see opportunities to promote the business, present them to the brass, then either never hear about it again or have to hassle them for weeks to look at it (by this stage the offer isn't as good as it would've been at the start)
- We use an antiquated and clunky system of record-keeping (where a client's details will be repeated on multiple systems, with no link between them), but because of the work and time it would require to introduce a new system (plus the fact it would require training, and won't solve all our problems with the click of a finger) they're happy to keep using the stupid system they have now, even though a new system will make things way easier and more efficient despite the initial pain.

Bear in mind this company is a small, family-owned business, that have survived through loyal employees who just know their job intuitively and been there for years, but now are forced to enter a new era to take that next step. As an "outsider" I see what is wrong and clunky, where they don't. It's reactive, and any push to be proactive is met with indifference. These are the sorts of ideological issues any company of this type must face up to, and it's never easy.

CFC on the other hand doesn't have this excuse, even though it sounds very familiar to what I experience where I am. The CFC is a multi-million dollar organisation, who have always prided themselves on having the best of everything. There's no excuse for this "she'll be right, we'll make it up as we go" attitude for an organisation of this magnitude.

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WADA medical director Dr Alan Vernec describes Essendon* FC drug case as biggest scandal in team sport the world of sport has seen. #WC2WB

#GUILTY

Brilliantly put, Don.

Hopefully the board can get something achieved this year in relation to comms. rather than navel-gaze and play musical chairs in the boardroom.

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And so while others miserably pledge themselves to the pursuit of ambition and brief power, I will be stretched out in the shade, singing.

i love musical chairs !

especially when its you and a hot chick racing for the same seat and you get there first and she rushes but can only manage to sit on your lap and then you stare longingly into each others guys and giggle at the awkward position you have just both found yourselves in

and then she goes to get up and congratulate you on being such a champion musical chairs player but slips on her long dress and goes to grab your arm as she is falling down and manages to pull you off the chair and on top of her and then you both just @#$%&! each others brains out on the floor in the middle of the game.

causing you to lose musical chairs

bitch !

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*(grow - fun - gah)

Yeah but whatabout your whataboutism.