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Social Media Directors: Business Strategists
I read an interesting article today, passed through my radar thanks to a tweet from @GuyKawasaki “What does a social media officer really do?” with a link to this article from Business Week: Twitter Twitter Little Stars. It was a … Continue reading
Pop Computing and Generativity – My thoughts on the Future and Solution to an Open Web
About six years ago I wrapped up what I would consider to be my first full year of doing web work. Six years ago was also the inaugural year of Northern Voice, Canada’s first weblogging conference. And even though this … Continue reading
Posted in Business Strategy, Web Strategy
Tagged generativity, northern voice, nv10, open web, pop computing, WordPress
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Social Media Fundamentals
Last week I attended my first class on Social Media Fundamentals, a course offered by UBC Continuing Studies and taught by Rob and Alex from Social Signal. Opening night covered the basics of social media, and our first assignment was … Continue reading
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Tagged social media fundamentals
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Graeme Menzies of VANOC on Planning Online Communications
“The smartest planning for online communications has to include knowing that something else is going to happen four or two or three years from now that you don’t know about yet.” – Graeme Menzies, Director of Online Communications, VANOC
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Tagged digital strategy, online communications
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Open Source Matures as a Viable Business
Acquia, the commercial open source company founded by Drupal creator, Dries Buytaert, recently released a white paper, TCO for Open Source Social Publishing, that looks at the “total cost of ownership” for open source social publishing. Reading through the paper, … Continue reading
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Tagged Business Strategy, drupal, open source, small business, startups, thinking, Web Strategy, WordPress
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Drupal or WordPress: Why not both?
There’s been some growing chatter lately about what’s in store with Drupal 7. Curious to learn more, I was reading up on the Drupal 7 User Experience Project and as I scanned through the pages, I noticed something: the Drupal … Continue reading
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Tagged Business Strategy, drupal, open source, User Experience, Web Strategy, WordPress
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Usability? Talent Trumps Testing.
A friend and fellow highedweb colleague recently shared some thoughts about usability, questioning the value it brings to the overall web design process, ultimately proposing that usability is in fact not that important when it really comes down to it … Continue reading
Web Directions North 2008
This week, I come bearing gifts! The gifts? Some summaries and write-ups covering two days of ideas and inspiration from Web Directions North 2008 – a conference for web professionals hosted here in Vancouver, BC. I’ll start things off with two of the highlights, Jeffrey Zeldman’s opening keynote address, and a summary of some key insights shared by Josh Williams of Firewheel Design. Continue reading
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