Slack with blogging

We have been really busy at Hoffi over the last month or so, with work on various projects and also doing our bit to expand the use of eco-design within Wales by getting involved in the initial meetings with Ecodesign centre Wales on their research project the EcoNetwork. On top of all of that Andrew is getting married this Saturday so we are getting ready for the big day and also the workload are going to be doing while he is on honeymoon.

The first meeting took place in Cardiff Bay and I thought was a great success. The second was in Roath at the Gate. I had never been there before and was quite impressed with it. The event itself was a show and tell session. I was asked to speak about a recent project I have been trying to get off the ground and also my take on eco-design and the issues surrounding it.

You can see a full report on the EcoNetwork blog

twitter, to tweet, tweeting,

As with everyone recently it seems like there has been no end to twittering or tweeting in our office. It has very much followed the same pattern as most of the things we get involved in. One of us gets into it first them makes the others try it out. The the novelty dies down or more likely we get really busy and it gets placed on the back burner. Then a few weeks later a project always seems to come up that would be great to use the new technology so we all get back into it.

We have been using twitter with cradle so first of all get exposure of the project out there in the public domain but also using it for a informal chat to potential customers to really ask them who and what they really want, we hope this will turn into a great project fro us to publish the findings in future months. We also feel it could be a possible direction of how 'good' customer online service might develop. Notoriously the idea of customer service and that of just service has been blurred within e-com over recent years, and on a personal level perhaps this goes some way towards gaining the ground back to putting customer not fist but actually acknowledging they exist. To keep up to date on what we are all up to see Andrew's tweets here, Carwyn's here and mine here, we also have one setup for hoffi but we will be doing something slightly different for that one so watch this space.

Biodegradble t-shirt

Following on from previous posts, cradle has had a great response from twitter members and has been pointed to a number of new products. One being from trigema which is the first biodegradble t-shirt, also cradle were directed to Triumph Underwear who do a 'pure origin' product range that has also been accredited cradle to cradle.

Watch for further developments, here or on twitter. The project is the brainchild of myself but it would not have gone this far without the aid of the rest of the guys from Hoffi.