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Following on from my rant about loading and the kind of overblown, overproduced microsites that form the hub of many a digital strategy I tried to think what we could call those ideas that do work. I like the term "lightweight" - an idea that you can understand easily, access quickly and share instantly. More often than not these ideas are executed anywhere other than a microsite, they have been developed on a budget and have to earn their audience through their intrinsic entertainment/functional value.

 
Josh Spear in Revolution today has a similar take on where agencies and clients need to be putting their budgets. He advocates producing a 100 digital experiences and seeing what flies. To produce even a tenth of that amount would require a complete re-structuring of the agency business model and the client relationship but the theory is good. It's actually a lot lower risk than spending half a million quid on one site no-one sees which will require maintenance and eventually replacement. For the same money a hundred 5k pieces out there will almost certainly touch more people.

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