Archive for October, 2003
October 31, 2003
Faceted Classification List
Did you know there is a faceted classification listserve? I didn’t!
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October 31, 2003
A Few New Blogs on My Reading List
I added 4 new-to-me blogs to my reading list this week.
Open Access News
News from the debate over making scholarly journals open to everyone without subscription fees (with lots of variations on the theme as well). The blog is on a slow server but it will deliver a page eventually.
Asterix*
A blog by D. Keith Robinson focusing on web design. His recent entry on moving a healthcare organization to a standards based design caught my interest (thanks for the tip, Glen!).
View from the Corner Office
An anonymously authored blog by an association CEO. Pretty frank stuff so far.
Association Innovation
Jeff de Cagna is back at it with his blog about associations and their need to innovate.
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October 31, 2003
Bad Panther
Wired News: Bye-Bye Data: Glitch in Panther. Sounds like a nasty bug in the latest Mac OS X version. If you run OS X you should probably hold off upgrading for a while, especially if you have firewire data storage devices.
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October 28, 2003
Directory of Open Access Journals
Came across this link on Kmentor:
The Directory of Open Access Journals.
Welcome to the Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now journals in the directory.
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October 28, 2003
And Yet More on Personalization
Does Personalization Do Anything Useful?
I interviewed user interface expert Jared Spool a couple of years ago for a now defunct Web site. I really like Jared’s ideas on all things technical, so it was a pleasure to discuss personalization with him.
Another take on personalization from a couple years ago. My favorite bit of the interview:
For Spool, the way to tackle personalization isn’t to start with the question, ?What can we personalize?? The right questions to ask are, ?What does the user need to see right now? What information does the user need??
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October 28, 2003
IA as the Means to Your End
Good Information Architecture Increases Online Sales
Information Architecture can be applied to resolve breakdowns in site design and navigation structure. The role of good Information Architecture is to make the Website work not in the technical sense, but from a functional, organized, conceptual perspective.
(Article found via InfoDesign.)
This article makes the point that organizations should use their site’s information architecture as a critical tool in acheiving their major organizational goals (sales, in this example). While that sounds obvious it is easy to drift away from that kind of objective if you don’t keep it firmly in mind during the design process.
At ASHA, we recently redesigned and restructured our web site. One of our goals was to strongly enhance the value of being a member and to ensure that members and prospective members could easily see the wealth of information they could recieve on the web site. To that end, we grouped all the member-only content into a single section with a drop-down menu that allows them to quickly see all the major content areas. Again, it seems an obvious approach but it is one we have not really taken before when the users’ perception of member value on the web site was not kept front and center during the design process. Without that focus it would have been very easy to compromise in other areas that would have diluted or fragmented the member-only content on our site.
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October 27, 2003
A Great Place to Manage Knowledge
My office has an opening for a Knowledge Manager on our Knowledge and Community Management team.
On a related note, ASHA has just been selected by the Washingtonian as one of the 50 great places to work in the DC area for the second time in a row.
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October 24, 2003
Top 10 Reasons to Learn CSS
Christopher Schmitt’s Top 10 Reasons to Learn CSS. (Link via Nick Bradbury.)
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October 23, 2003
EditCSS for Mozilla/Firebird
editcss is a plugin for Mozilla/Firebird that allows you to view the stylesheet for the current page in a sidebar and then edit it, viewing the changes realtime in the browser window. Wow! What a great CSS design tool.
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October 22, 2003
Klogging within Google
This interview with Evan Williams reveals that at least a couple hundred Google staff are writing blogs on their intranet. (Link found via Simon Willison.)
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