What’s the deal with…Augmented Reality?

September 1, 2009

In the tech community, some folks have been talking about “augmented reality” for years. But only recently has it started to really catch the attention of a more mainstream crowd. What is this seemingly sci-fi catchphrase, and why should you be paying attention?

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Site Updates – Development Questions

May 21, 2009

Thinking about redesigning your Web presence? Here are a few questions to ask your potential development partner about you ability to make updates and changes down the road.

1. Will we be able to make updates to the site ourselves (is a CMS being used)?
If the goal of your website is to have people return frequently, [...]

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New Series: Questions to Ask your Development Partner

May 21, 2009

I have been working as in the web development field for a decade now. I’ve worked as a solo designer/developer building sites for small businesses. I spent four years in the User Experience department at LexisNexis working on the interface for an incredibly robust data-driven internationalized web application. I’ve worked on engaging, interactive [...]

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What’s the deal with “Crowdsourcing”?

April 9, 2009

So far this year I’ve spoken at two conferences with my co-worker Tonya Peters, and we conduct a “social media terms quiz” to assess the level of knowledge of the audience. The one term that consistently throws people off is “crowdsourcing”.
Crowdsourcing is basically what it sounds like: outsourcing to a group. Or according to John [...]

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What’d I Miss? Top Findings from 12-29 – 01-04

January 4, 2009

I’ve been enjoying several of the latest posts over at the Online Community Strategist blog by Angela Connor. Her posts Your Tombstone in 140 Characters or Less and Are we taking the 140 character limit to the extreme have caused me to really think about the impact of microblogging on how we communicate. Rather than [...]

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What’d I Miss? Top Findings from 12-22 – 12-28

December 28, 2008

On Dec 27th, Loic Le Meur wrote a blog post stating that We need twitter search by authority. Many twits were up in arms about this, as it seemed to infer that number of followers was directly related to the authority or influence of an individual. By 28th, however, his request came true, as a [...]

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What’d I Miss? Top Findings from 12/15 – 12/21

December 21, 2008

You Don’t Need Facebook Connect or Google Friend Connect to Socialize – Gigya has offered a similar service (allowing site owners to tap into users’ social relationships from several online communities) for a few months. I first heard of Gigya last year, when I was investigating different widget distribution platforms. I considered them a third [...]

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What’d I Miss? Top findings from 12-01 to 12-07

December 7, 2008

During the Great Thesis Black Friday Sale of 2008, I purchased a developer’s licence for the thesis blog theme. I transitioned “Go the Distance” (my running blog) to thesis, and am working on some other projects as well. It’s been been interesting to learn the ‘best practices’ for customizing this powerful theme, and one of [...]

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What’d I Miss? Top findings from 11-24 to 11-30

November 30, 2008

No unifying theme for this week’s findings-

I found Faris Yakob’s post on Spreadable Media via Noah Brier’s blog. Spreadable Media argues that the use of the term “viral” for content we wish to have spread via social media is “a complete inversion of the viral model.” Or as Faris puts it,
This metaphor is very [...]

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what’d I miss? Top learnings from 11-17 to 11-23

November 23, 2008

Ok, so generally weekly wrap-ups happen on Friday.. but what are you going to do with new information on Friday, when your brain is already shutting down? Here’s a “things to talk about Monday morning at the water cooler” post—things I learned last week. Interestingly enough, all mobile-related..

The google search application for the iPhone now [...]

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