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Article Let’s outsource! by Mark O’Brien on May 12, 2009 I just received a great email from some apparently very smart people about why I should outsource Newfangled's programming work to India via the U.K. The subject line read... Read Now About
Article Is tracking visitors to your website ethical? by Christopher Butler on May 12, 2009 I just asked this question on LinkedIn and have already gotten some interesting responses. If you have an opinion on this, I'd love to hear it... Read Now About
Article Prospect Experience Design Creative Block? Go To Prison! by Justin Kerr on May 8, 2009 I've heard a lot of suggestions for overcoming creative block: change your venue, sketch, take a nap, etc. But I think I've discovered one of the more effective methods— long periods of forced solitude and an orange jumpsuit. Photographer Marc Steinmetz has posted some very creative escape tools used by prison inmates. Of course, only some of these hand-crafted masterpieces were successful in springing their owners or else they wouldn't have them on hand to be photographed, right? Read Now About
Article Twitter: Changing How We Read & Write Online published on May 8, 2009 It's already hard enough to get visitors to your website and then actually pay attention to your text, but will Twitter make it even more difficult? Read Now About
Article RSS is Not Dead Yet by Christopher Butler on May 7, 2009 Steve Gillmor, of Techcrunch, has made some waves with a recent blog post titled Rest in Peace, RSS, in which he argues that nobody uses RSS anymore because Twitter is much more effective. While it wasn't the central point of his post, I think he's on to something when he says that many of these social networking tools, when bundled together, can make a pretty effective communication platform. But I don't think RSS is dead yet... Read Now About
Article How to Deal with (and prevent) Project Fatigue published on May 7, 2009 In a recent project management meeting, each staff member cited a weakness they'd like to improve. Several answers related to challenges with those few projects that tend to go far over schedule and how to get it back on track, within budget, and keep morale (for both us and the client) high long after the project kickoff. With a few of these kinds of projects under my belt now, I've learned a couple ways to both prevent and work through these phases. Read Now About
Article Advanced Segmentation for Google Analytics – the why without the how published on May 6, 2009 This is purely an informational post about why you, the site administrator, should begin looking into advanced segmentation, a free and powerful tool that is offered to us lucky Google Analytics tinkerers. And how large fortune 100 retail companies who sell things on a day-to-day basis WISH they had the luxury we do with being able to segment our day-to-day customer traffic. Retail stores have entire departments allocated to watching and evaluating metrics that come streaming in from their multitude of stores. The one chain in particular is Best Buy. Read Now About
Article We Have Unrealistic Expectations of Privacy by Christopher Butler on May 6, 2009 Even though these services offer the convenience of not being tied to one machine, I ultimately think the problems that come from it should rightfully cause us to reconsider our priorities. In previous posts on privacy, two particular concepts have come up again and again. They are ownership and intentionality of critical policy making... Read Now About
Article Content Strategy New Technology, and Balancing the Fun with the Practical published on May 5, 2009 Following technology trends on the web is a dizzying pastime. New programming languages rise to popularity seemingly every month and the buzzword-laden web frameworks make their introductions and dance on stage for half a verse before bowing out to younger, fresher technologies. When deciding which pieces of new technology to build into your web presence, there are several things that a developer should consider and some simple guidelines to pull in new, fun technology. Read Now About
Article Which social network presents the most real value to your company? by Christopher Butler on May 4, 2009 If you've got a moment to answer this poll, please follow the link and submit your opinion. I haven't closed the poll yet, but as of the morning of 5/05/09, the results are shown in the animation I've included after the jump. Each slide is 7 seconds, the full animation will rotate forever. It looks like LinkedIn is the clear winner with 53% of respondents choosing it as the most valuable social network to their business... Read Now About