Alexander Johannesen has started a project to develop a topic maps-based Wiki, which looks to be very interesting. To quote: I’ve been planning a new project for some time, and this is the initial Release of Ideas. The project has been brewing for some time, but needs have arisen for me to actually get it up an running in a…
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Blogs for Professional Advantage
http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2004/02/blogs_for_profe.html John Battelle‘s collumn at Business2.0 suggests that blogs will become a staple of business (reg. req.): So here’s my prediction: Blogs will soon become a staple in the information diet of every serious businessperson, not because it’s cool to read them, but because those who don’t read them will fail. In short, blogs offer an accelerated and efficient…
Wizards and Guides: Principles of Task Flow for Web Applications Part 2
In part one of this article the discussion was one of views, forms, and the manner in which they could be combined into a task structure known as a hub. This installment expands on those themes by exploring two other types of task structures commonly employed in web applications–wizards and guides.
NewsGator RSS Aggregator
I pulled the trigger and bought a copy of NewsGator today. I live, breathe, and dream in Outlook and it is by far the best solution I have found to date for reading news via RSS. I have been a long-time Radio user and will most likely continue to maintain my weblog there, but the aggregator has been giving me…
Test post from Newsgator
This is a test post from Newsgator via Outlook.
Wicked (Good) Wikis [1]. Blogalyst…
Wicked (Good) Wikis. Blogalyst Stowe Boyd has a seriously great article on wikis in Darwin. Its a good intro to wiki, compares them with weblogs, highlights their emergent properties and role as social tools. …Wikis are built upon an inherently open model of… [Ross Mayfield’s Weblog]
Six steps to better interviews…
Six steps to better interviews and simplified task analysis. Indi Young discusses how to conduct effective interviews, as part of a needs analysis process. Her five suggestions: Focus on Deeper Goals Slow Down Ask Why Forget the Clock Dig for Details Scrap the Questionnaire [Thanks to elearningpost.]… [Column Two]
Ethnography applied to new product…
Ethnography applied to new product development. Elizabeth Sanders has written an article on applying ethnography to product development. To quote: Applied ethnography is gaining widespread acceptance as a research technique. But many companies are still puzzled by it, or do not know how to use it… [Column Two]
New topic map tools [1]….
New topic map tools. Peter Van Dijck has pointed out a few new topic map tools and approaches: tinyTIM: a very small easy to use (50kb jarsize) in memory Topic Map engine. It implements the TMAPI interfaces, so one can work with TopicMaps via… [Column Two]
NewsMasters
Jon Udell points to Robin Good writes on the need for a new type of professional to “to concert, orchestrate, edit, and refine quality search formulas that tap into the whole RSS universe and beyond, and that filter out relevant content based on selected keywords, sources, type of content, ranking and many other possible criteria.” The guy I am envisioning…