The Archives
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03.19.08Real commitment or lipstick on a pig?I've discussed Web 2.0 at length in its various forms on this site, but it looks like, with awareness of the phenomenon growing in business, many of our (by which I mean you and me) clients are interested in having "a Web 2.0 site". Trouble is, I don't think many of them understand just what that means, and I also think that from a consulting perspective, some of us are failing to transfer that knowledge to them. Let's start by not laying blame. Web 2.0 is hard to explain. Here's what I'm seeing. Many sites out there are getting makeovers that ...
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02.11.08TransitionsSome of you already know, but this is the official announcement. As of the end of February (maybe a week earlier), I will no longer be doing long, onsite contracts for a single client. I will be moving to doing shorter and more varied work for clients that are closer to sharing my vision of how the work I do and the services I provide should be done. I've already signed one contract and have a couple of possibilities on the boil. Fingers crossed. My decision is based on a number of factors: working long, onsite contracts isn't too different to ...
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12.10.07Enterprise apps *can* and *should* be sexyImage © Hugh McLeod - www.gapingvoid.com 2007. I'm posting this in a (fairly short) lunch break, so it may not be as eloquent as it should be... I read my friend, Susan's take on the current "enterprise software should be sexy" heat that's running today. Started by Scoble, who quite reasonably asked: Any of you have any ideas on how to make business software sexy? A number of the Enterprise Irregulars and others have weighed into the debate, including Nick Carr (whose position I rather like, even if I don't necessarily completely agree with his argument), Michael Krigsman in two posts (1, 2), ...
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11.19.07Crowdsharing your libraryMy last post was about books. Specifically, about which books I should give away at WebBlast Canberra 07 in December. I got lots of good ideas and am in the progress of acting on them. So, thanks to everyone that helped. A couple of days after that, I went along to spend some regular time with my local IA friends at IA Cocktail Hour. Serendipitously, Donna spoke about using LibraryThing to share our collective professional libraries. Andrew has a group set up (he just needs to remember the password) for us to share on and we're tagging our professional ...
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09.22.07Love in an elevator - UX as business strategy at Oz-IA 2007This weekend I'm in Sydney attending and speaking at Oz-IA 2007. Today was all signal and no noise! Every speaker had great subject matter. Naturally, not every talk totally rocked my world, but it was all good stuff. My favorite of the day was SlideShare's Rashmi Sinha speaking about their non-approach to UX in launching and during the first year of SlideShare's existence. My session went well, with some great feedback. I also managed to make a bunch of new "friends" who were keen to see my iPhone ;). Here are the slides, my speaking notes ...
