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849 Articles match "Experiment","Personal"
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
Raina Van Cleave and Nick Finck gave a very informative and succinct presentation on what characterizes a great end user experience. We typically design from the inside out (data > logic > user experience) rather than from the outside in (user experience > logic > data) 2. Understand the goal How easy is the first time a person visits? Author: Joey Martin
They summed up the qualities of great design into 10 Commandments - these commandments aren’t written in stone however but when designing your web presence thou shalt: 1.
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
So, it is with a great pleasure that Michaela shares some of her experience and takeaways from this year's SXSW.
This week has reminded me that the power and benefits of getting communities together in person shouldn't be overlooked. South by Southwest reinforced the true value of connecting like-minded groups in person — particularly in our field. Note from Beth: Every now and then, I get asked when did you first discover the power of the social web? I actually have a repertoire of stories, but one of them is about Michaela Hackner ( Kalabird
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
Build personal relationships with people first.
Check out more nonprofit campaigner take-aways below.
Michael Cervino, Beaconfire: For online campaigning, a whole new world of tools and tactics is opening up for nonprofits as the commercial sector invests in social media, social networking and more sophisticated UI experiences. This week has reminded me that the power and benefits of getting communities together in person shouldn't be overlooked. SXSW was a total whirlwind filled with some of the biggest thought leaders discussing social media (of course) but also about the power of online fundraising and crowdsourcing.
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Last week, I asked my readers to share their best advice for using a blog for personal branding and job searching. So below is the Bamboo Project Readers' Guide to Blogging for Personal Branding . Should You Blog? To the question of "Should I Blog?" All my commenters are bloggers themselves, so clearly they believe that blogging is an important part of the branding process, too. Heather Carpenter shared a paper that she wrote based on interviews Networking 2.0: Blogging Your Way Out of a Job...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Here's what I love about this: It supports reaggregation of the museum experience. When users get to reaggregate the experience, they base their decisions on and distinctions that most museums would be hard-pressed to come up with on their own. Last week, I spoke with Jim Richardson, managing director of SUMO Design , about their very cool new project with the North East Regional Museums Hub : I like... museums .
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Monday, October 26, 2009
This exhibition uses RFID tags to allow visitors to save their work throughout the space--something that many institutions have been experimenting with for almost ten years now. And while the Brain exhibition has some qualities that were significantly improved over other RFID-enabled exhibitions (better scanning of the tags, more content-rich personalized welcome screens, effective timeouts if you walked away, a semi-useful group option to accommodate families), it offered an output mechanism that is dated and downright frustrating: the personal webpage. Yesterday, I visited the Experimentarium , a science center just north of Copenhagen in Denmark.
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Sunday, July 13, 2008
Jonathon Colman , TNC's Associate Director for Digital Marketing recently developed a slide presentation that summarizes the organization's experience using Facebook as a marketing tool. In terms of social media, I think that organizations need to find people who can bring the right balance of: - Writing for the web (specifically writing for members) - Engaging in search engine marketing and optimization; - Marketing to verticals and other segments - Researching marketing and communities - Testing and documentation - Recording metrics and interpretation of "actionable" data - Taking the
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
So yes, it has to be balanced and sufficiently varied (protein, carbs, fats — theory, facts and history), to allow you to function and make a living, but you don’t have to experiment and sample unless you want to, or your traditional means of adding information value through your work is under threat. Tags: Personal Rant I love this riff. For a long time people in the nonprofit sector that I work with have complained about information overload.
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Thursday, January 22, 2009
It starts with the core purpose and vision your organization hopes to fulfill and goes all the way through how people experience your organization -- via programs, events, videos, newsletters, and yes, your website.
If What about your personality? Does the general design of the site -- including navigation, colors, content, and features -- reflect the personality Farra Trompeter, Big Duck
Your Your organization's brand is more than just its logo, its name, or how it all looks on letterhead.
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Monday, February 2, 2009
Here's a problem many museums would like to solve: How do you design an intuitive way to give visitors unique IDs so that visitors can receive personalized content and feedback and institutions can receive real-time data tracking on visitor behavior? The Tech Museum of Innovation has had a personal ID "Tech Tag" system in place since 2003, available initially via RFID bracelets and currently via barcodes on the tickets. It's not a new problem. There are several interactive exhibits throughout the museum where you can swipe your ticket, and save the photo/digital creation produced
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Monday, November 2, 2009
a constituent has a specific staff contact at your nonprofit, make sure that staff person has an active role in their online communications, as well. For example, you can include a note from them at the top of an e-Newsletter or email announcement and let the replies to any of those emails reach this contact so they can get a personal response from them.
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
On Sunday April 5, I’ll be conducting a collaborative experiment with 15 intrepid University of Washington graduate students, and I’d like to invite you to join in from your own hometown. The experiment requires you to go to a public space and do three things: Talk to a stranger. The point of this experiment is to play with design conditions that support both facilitated and unfacilitated Spring is here and it’s time to talk to strangers. April 5 is the first day of a class I’m teaching called Social Technology, in which we are focusing on designing an exhibition that
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Saturday, July 7, 2007
The person directly responsible for outreach and retention of clients at this organization is now also responsible for their mission-critical applications. These needs are not forgotten about now, but under the new regime we also hear things like "We are trying to improve the experience of the member at the front desk, so we'd like to... " There is a lot of talk about "user experience" in IT these days. But the This week the e-newsletter put out by consulting giant McKinsey ran a piece about how Merrill Lynch, the global financial services firm, has combined its Information Technology and Operations departments.
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