Separating content from presentation – social media style

November 25, 2008

As a recovering web developer, I am very acutely aware of the best practices of separating content from presentation. The other night at the social part of the Mile High Social Media Club, I was talking with some folks about semantics and web standards, and it occurred to me that this same nuance extends to [...]

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A shiny new job title

August 30, 2008

This month I read eagerly as the writers of two blogs I follow (Dave Knox of Hard Knox Life and David Griner of The Social Path) showed off their shiny new social media job titles. I yearned for the day I could make such an announcement myself, just waiting for the right time.. and so [...]

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Web Accessibility and Usability Presentations at Columbus Digital

July 23, 2008

Next Tuesday (July 29th), I will be presenting on Web Accessibility to Columbus Digital – the Central Ohio Adobe Users Group. Starting off the meeting will be a presentation on Usability on the Web. Announcing this month’s Adobe User Group Presentation Night, hosted by Quest Software! [Google Calendar Link] 6:10- 7:00: Usability on the WebChris [...]

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what’s the deal with… personalization

July 10, 2008

Personalization is the idea of tailoring an experience to a specific individual. This is particularly prevalent in e-Commerce. There are a few ways to achieve this. The ATG e-Commerce platform uses ‘a scenario engine’ to provide personalized content. The engine uses a rules-based system, either based on user attributes or user behaviour. These can be [...]

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Content Marketing

July 3, 2008

Dave Knox over at Hard Knox Life just posted this great slideshow on Content Marketing by Helge Tenno. Although I strongly dislike the addition of “two-dot-oh” to the end of any term, I will admit the Agency2.0 he speaks of at the end of the show sounds pretty appealing! | Upload your own The first [...]

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{CrypticSN} wants to be your friend

May 27, 2008

Today I received a spam-like email: from {CrypticSN@gmail.com}{CrypticSN} invited you to be their friend. Click here to go to My Latest Piece where {CrypticSN} found you. I looked at the URL for the link, and it did redirect to “mylatestpiece.com”. Being the cynical “don’t click links in email” person that I am, I typed in [...]

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iCitizen – Open Source Communication Channels?

May 21, 2008

Doc Searls (co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto) is speaking at iCitizen about Open Source and Vendor Relationship Management. This is one of only a few sessions I’ve actually been able to attend, and it ended up being quite tech-heavy. Great for me! The idea is about how we can change our perspective on how to [...]

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Google Friend Connect – first (premature) thoughts

May 12, 2008

My thoughts are premature, because I haven’t actually seen Google Friend Connect (GFC; can I call it GFC?) in action, I’ve only seen the few screenshots that google has released. That being said, I thought I’d respond to my impressions or understandings of the service, before seeing what it really is. That way if I’m [...]

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Fanfic, Schroedinger’s Cat and Anaïs Nin

April 18, 2008

It turns out that the Groundswell Social Profile quiz I blogged about earlier wasn’t an official Forrester creation. Rather, it was created by a fan – and you can read the official Forrester take on this on their blog. This raised an issue I read about earlier this week on ReadWriteWeb: Content is Becoming a [...]

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UI and Magic!

March 21, 2008

In Jesse’s talk yesterday on Delivering Long-Term Design Value in a Short Term World, he mentioned that typically technology projects are built with data first in mind, then logic, and with UI tacked on top. He stressed the importance of not allowing your thinking to be limited by perceived technological limitations. For the past few [...]

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