Author Archives: jmorse
All change
Its been a while, I know, thing is its been a period of change, no longer do work as a Information Architect at Eduserv, after a period of upheaval, the word came down and I moved to the project management team to look after the shortfall. I’m still there. The jury is still out as [...]
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The Netflix Approach
The web has been buzzing with discussion over the ‘leaked’ internal presentation from Netflix discussing their approach to business, if you’ve not seen it then spend a few minutes reading through it (its meant to be read not so much presented) Culture View more presentations from reed2001. No doubt this approach is genius, there may [...]
Usable or accessible?
The following article first appeared in Public Sector Executive in August of 2008, http://www.publicsectorexecutive.com/dataview/News/News_Article.aspx?KeyValue=438 I revisited the article to see how relevant it is today and whether progress had been made in the subsequent years. The first thing i notice it the lack of references to social web and participatory culture of the web, I [...]
Evolving sites – tech-volution
Reading Robert Scoble ‘s friend feed conversation list, he posted a notice that got some traffic regarding the use of twitter as a conversations tool His argument was that twitter was not and should not be used as a tool for conversations, but more for ‘announcements’. Now his argument is not without merit, if you [...]
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Users, visitors and audience types
In a recent discussion / interview with a member of the Eduserv research group (previously known as (Eduserv foundation) which focused on a study soon to be proposed into CSM and HEI, I was asked to define the ‘user requirements’ for content management system project. Users.., what are ‘users’ when discussing CMS requirements, and are [...]
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Content is still king
We spend a lot of time considering the technology of a particular site, customers are always keen to point out the fact that they ‘need’ features and functions to make their site ‘useful’ and attract users, plans involve the development and design of forums, blogs and web 2.0 features that are a must for the [...]
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Information groups
Many websites will go to significant lengths to mage sure that their navigation is put grouped in a meaningful and logical way, (not always logical to the user but logical none the less) Others however just don’t get it. Amazon, a huge success story and still my favourite online retailer, is on my opinion guilty [...]
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