Building a vision of design success. Christina Wodtke has written an article on the importance of building a vision when redesigning a site. To quote: A common view of vision is that it’s something handed down by a leader to the troops. When a redesign goes… [Column Two]
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Web Assistant – a KE…
Web Assistant – a KE tool. For the past two years I’ve been using Web Assistant – a complex knowledge space that spans the spectrum from personal publishing to community collaboration. – a true knowledge ecology (KE) Personal publishing: Most of the key affordances for personal… [Knowledge-at-work]
ui widget site [1]. Christina…
ui widget site. Christina Wodtke, author of the Information Architecture book I use in my web classes, has a new weblog called Widgetopia. In it, she?s collecting and annotating examples of UI components?ratings stars, download menus, date entry forms, etc. Very nice resource for use in teaching HCI topics…. [mamamusings]
The Future Of Web Conferencing:…
The Future Of Web Conferencing: Good Interviews Stuart Henshall. Stuart Henshall is an expert in the use of new media technologies in the workplace. His current obsessions are social networking tools, social software, blogging, wikis, and the revolution taking place around voice communications. I have only recently made the acquaintance with Stuart thanks to a truly creative and well thought…
“Instead of trying to cram…
“Instead of trying to cram a centralized knowledge management system down everyone’s throat, you focus on helping individuals and teams do their own work more easily and more effectively. If you give some thought to how you design and shape the environment, the benefits of knowledge management sought by vendors of solutions in search of problems will emerge from the…
Shadow Illuminator: From Robotics to…
Shadow Illuminator: From Robotics to Photography — and to Howard. Vladimir Brajovic is a robotics researcher at Carnegie Mellon University. His goal is to give a better vision sense to robots. But in an unexpected side-effect, he developed a smart system to automatically enhance underexposed photos. The result, the Shadow Illuminator, is quite convincing. Shadow Illuminator examines the content of…
Jay Cross overview of knowledge…
Jay Cross overview of knowledge management. Knowledge Management. Knowledge management is a high-fallutin’ buzz phrase for creating and sharing know-how. A hot item circa 1998, overuse watered down KM’s popularity as a category (although it’s still a hot item in Europe). To vendors, KM became “whatever I want to sell you,” be it… [Internet Time Blog] A predictably rich and…
My experience with Total Choice…
My experience with Total Choice Hosting. Last month, I asked for help in evaluating a new webhost. I was paying $25/month to Verio for what I felt was sub-par service. Thanks to several recommendations in the comments (and in a few private e-mails), I ended up going with TotalChoiceHosting. First off, the price: $4/month, with a free month if you…
Can RSS, Sun, Apple challenge…
Can RSS, Sun, Apple challenge MS Office?. Steve Gillmor thinks so: [RSS] could be as disruptive to personal computing as the digital video recorder has been to television…Generated by Weblog authoring tools such as the pioneering Radio UserLand, RSS feeds were consumed by a growing circle of cross-linking bloggers and a spillover audience from the trade press. But vendors and…
Northern Light To Relaunch Its…
Northern Light To Relaunch Its Enterprise Service. : Northern Light, the “research engine”, so to speak, whose lights went out last year and was bought back again by its founder, will introduce the Northern Light Business Research Library on January 15, 2004. It will be a paid… [PaidContent.org]