I’m not a website designer. But I do have some opinions about what I like to see when I go to a web page.
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Ten Questions re: Does Your Tech Company Web Site Suck?
As a consultant I’m always on the lookout for my next gig. Lately I’ve been researching government contractors and consulting companies in the DC area. This is what I’m looking for as explained last week on GovLoop and Google+:
Recently I received a comment on an old blog post from 2006 titled “Slide Presentation: ‘Expertise Management Systems’.”
Honest, if you want to poison your kids and rot their teeth with this stuff, that’s your prerogative.
Honest, I’m not against location based services!
On Attempting an Updated Definition of "Web 2.0"
I recently had an opportunity to provide an updated definition of “web 2.0” for a project I’m consulting on. The project, managed by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), is called Changing the Conversation: From Research to Action. “Web 2.0” is one of those terms that just won’t die. Even as some have tried to invent and sell newer-sounding terms like “web 3.0,” there are still many for whom the underlying concepts of “web 2.0” and social media are new, unfamiliar, or ready to be revisited after an initial or limited exposure.
Facebook and Dueling "Cost Benefit" Privacy Calculations
Bruce Nussbaum’s Facebook’s Culture Problem May Be Fatal is one of the crisper analyses I’ve read of the current problems Facebook s faces regarding conflicts between its emerging business model and the “privacy” of its members.
Using Facebook Should Not Be a Gamble
I’m a consultant. Early on I realized a basic truth: “Where There Is Confusion There Are Consultants.”
Managing Online Social Network Data Access is Like Living In a House Built on Sand
I’ve been trying to follow Facebook’s changing privacy rules and its introduction of the “like” concept on Facebook and elsewhere.
Do you really need a blog if you already use Facebook? Listen to what Richard Musson, vice-president of marketing for Labatt Breweries of Canada, said recently when asked about using social media to support the launch of Bud Lite Lime in Canada:
I’m optimistic. I’m beginning to think that second-nature use of collaborative technologies by non-technologists, both for social engagement as well as for work, could reach a tipping point much sooner than I had thought. It’s not going to be completely smooth sailing, though.
This Mindmeister “mindmap” updates my list of professional networking tools that I started here. I’ve made the following changes:
I’ve been getting an increasing number of requests lately from friends and colleagues to explain or help with inividual blogging and professional networking practices. To help I’ve tagged a few of the entries on this web site with the category tag “basics.”
How Closely do Traditional and Social Media Based Customer Support Services Need to be Coordinated?
In Five Challenges Government Faces When Adopting Web 2.0 I wrote about the need to consider the cost impact on the organization of hiring additional “community managers” to support the addition of social media and social networking to overall customer support operations:
Social Media and Enhancing the Engineering Profession's Image
In my blog post Can Social Media Help Change the Public’s Perception of the Engineering Profession? I commented on the National Academy of Engineering’s report Changing the Conversation: Messages for Improving Public Understanding of Engineering. In my original post I lauded the NAE report but suggested that any implementation program designed to change the public’s perception of the engineering profession should incorporate social media and social networking elements. In this post I discuss some of these elements.
Facebook Connect Raises Complex Data Portability and Data Sharing Issues
Successful system operation frequently depends on the quality of the data it contains. Social networking systems rely on the ability their members have to manage and keep up to date information about their identities. They also rely on the ability to describe and act upon data about relationships with other network members. If identity or relationship data are faulty, unstable, or inconsistent, the operation of the social network, and the performance of network based transactions related to it, will suffer.
A friend, a professional engineer, asked me for tips on establishing a “web presence.” This is what I wrote:
Listen to Radiolab’s City X. It’s a history of shopping malls told through slickly edited sound bites and Muzak.
Given my longstanding interest in copyright, I’ve been following the AP anti-fair-use story with some interest (e.g., see this by Jason Kintzler, or this by Julian Baldwin; there’s also an interesting discussion thread ongoing at the Linkedin Bloggers group on Yahoo! Groups).