Monday, March 07, 2005China businessweek sucks
Businessweek online is available in Chinese!!! Wow!! It appears that the people running the Chinese operation have modified it
down to the standard of a D grade high school project - to accomadate what they think are thier dumb local customers (why else would it be so impossibly crap?). What gives! Check out the utter lack of attention to such details as:
Forgetting to put any content on your pages
Putting ALL your content on a homepage that takes 2 minutes to scroll down
The whole site shows a complete lack of understanding about what a website is and a contempt for the customer - how big is the gap between the English language version and the Chinese? BIG: Compare them. It is emblematic of the quality issue here and the disregard for the customer by many businesses that believe that government support will get them the customers they need - how short sighted of businessweek to prostiute their brand so mindlessly!!
This is done in "cooperation" with the "China commerce and trade press" I am guessing (wildly? I dont think so!) that the government
departmnet is resonsbile for systematically damaging businesweeks brand in Asia. What on earth are they thinking!!
Editor training? - to much trouble!
What about content design? Can't be arsed!
Knowledge transfer from one team to another - you know, communication! To busy having blahblahblah meetings!!!
Get a grip. Both of you.
- Posted by James Nash - 3:29:25 PM - Comment? Rules: Criticize ideas? Yes. Criticize people for holding those ideas? No. []
