Category Archives: content
Documents suck, information is cool
(With respects to Aarawak for messing with their tag line) I’ve been thinking recently about the role of documents in an organisations process, and the slowly dawning realisation that they are increasingly irrelevant, barriers to information sharing, and possibly damaging to all that come near them. Ok that may be a little strong, but let [...]
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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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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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