Archive for February, 2003
February 25, 2003
Enterprise Information Architecture
Lou Rosenfeld will be doing a road show about IA design for large organizations.
I’ll be tackling the frustrating challenge of getting a large, multi-departmental and hugely political web environment to behave like a single, unified, user-centric web site.
I wish I could have taken this course about six months ago! We are in the process of finalizing the IA for a redesign of our main web site. Crafting the information architecture for a non-profit membership association web site is as much a political process as it is a design exercise.
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February 25, 2003
Staff Directories
Column Two has posted a “list of what you might consider including in your staff directory.” A few extras we are considering for our staff directory, in addition to those on James’ list, include:
- regular work hours
- telecommuting days with contact info
- teams you are a member of (we are a team-based staff)
- teams you are interested in
- self-selected subject areas of expertise (drawn from our thesaurus)
- self-selected subject areas of interest (also drawn from our thesaurus)
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February 22, 2003
XML-RPC for .Net
XML-RPC.Net is a library with which to implement XML-RPC clients and services in .Net. This should save a lot of time for anyone trying to integrate .Net apps with existing services (such as some of the weblog APIs out there). Found via syndirella.
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February 20, 2003
Desktop SpamAssassin
There is a version of SpamAssassin for Windows desktop users that will filter your incoming mail from a POP account. I’ll be trying this one at home for my personal e-mail accts.
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February 20, 2003
MT 2.62 and Counting
Another upgrade to MT has been released to fix a security vulnerability. A good illustration of why it’s often smart to not implement an x.0 release right off the bat (not just with MS products).
I give them big points for being very responsive and quick to fix these issues when they are identified. Bigger points are available for catching them before release. :)
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February 16, 2003
Javascript Stylesheet Switcher
This is a nifty little piece of javascript and CSS: A List Apart: CSS: Making Alternate Style Sheets Work. This has been around a while so I’m blogging it primarily for archival purposes.
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February 15, 2003
Aggie 1.0 RC5
A new version of Aggie is out.
This looks like a major upgrade. The most exciting new featrue, imho, is this:
Aggie can now be taught how to transform any structured web page into an RSS feed. This is useful for sites that produce content in an orderly fashion, but publish no RSS feeds of their own (such as MSDN).
Now I can get many sites into my aggregator even if they don’t publish an RSS feed.
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February 12, 2003
CM Implementation is Hard
From the Intranet Focus Blog:
A CMS is probably the most complex rollout an organization will manage. Even a change to the desktop IT environment is less of a challenge. Indeed, only organizations that have implemented an ERP application or a document management application are likely to have had any related experience.
It is a huge process that requires lots of buy-in and support from around the organization in order to succeed. For membership associations, such as where I work, implementing a CMS is very similar to implementing a new association management system and comes in a close second as far as degree of difficulty.
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February 12, 2003
More SNA
Denham Grey posted a comment over on Column Two pointing out a couple more packages I wasn’t aware of:
Thanks!
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February 10, 2003
Topic Exchange
Seb introduced me to Topic Exchange a few weeks ago. This service, created by Phillip Pearson, allows anyone to create collaborative channels using TrackBack. This makes it a lot easier to create services such as KMpings. Nice job!
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