Archive for April, 2004
April 28, 2004
Comments Disabled
I’ve disabled the comments on the site for the time being due to continued comment spamming. I had tried the spam plugin for comments a while back but that broke KMpings so I had to back it out. Please use trackback to add comments to an entry or e-mail me and I’ll update the post.
I have left existing comments in place so they can still be viewed.
I’ll investigate the plugin again when I have time and will hopefully provide the comment feature again in the future.
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April 16, 2004
Gmail
Tim O’Reilly has deconstructed all the hoohaw over the new Gmail service from Google: The Fuss About Gmail and Privacy: Nine Reasons Why It’s Bogus.
I’ve been trying out the beta for a few days and I’m pretty impressed with the features it has and with the quality of the links (sponsored and otherwise) that they discretely display when you view a message. Check out what O’Reilly has to say if you are still concerned about it.
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April 16, 2004
Map and Territories
I’ve been a bit of a map geek since getting a minor in geography as part of my BA, so I was pleased to come across this blog the other day: Maps and Territories by Chris Corrigan. His posting style is to add an image of a map with a link to the original and add some text from literature or biographies that tells a bit of a story associated with the place represented by the map. I think it works.
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April 7, 2004
The Honorable Blog
Spotted via David Weinberger: the governor of Wisconsin is writing his own weblog.
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April 7, 2004
Mail on the Google Box?
a klog apart raised an interesting idea recently related to Google launching their own e-mail service: a combined blogger, gmail and google search appliance.
Appliance sales. With Google search, weblogs, and email, Google will give Microsoft mail service a run for its money. Watch Google roll out Blogger in a Box this year, the better to clue the Google search engine to intranet content. A year from now, watch the microcontent of email and weblogs continue to converge, especially behind the firewall.
That sounds like a powerful combination for a corporate intranet.
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April 6, 2004
New Association Weblog
I saw over on Jeff De Cagna’s site that the Air Conditioning Contractors of America have launched a weblog for their organization.
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April 1, 2004
Content Management Interview Questions
Below are a set of interview questions that we used when filling the Director of Content Management position in our office. I posted these to an ASAE list today in response to a question and thought I might as well throw them up here.
These are tailored for the mission and organizational culture at our office but might be useful for those of you who interview people for content management jobs, especially those positions that manage other staff and teams.
OPENING QUESTION
1. Why are you interested in applying for this position?
QUESTIONS
2. Please describe your view of the relationships between information architecture, graphic/html design, and content development. What challenges do you see in managing the roles and responsibilities within a team responsible for these areas?
3. What are some unique qualities about publishing health care information on the web as opposed to other types of content?
4. Please describe your style of leadership in the work you have done as a staff supervisor or team leader. How has your style of leadership contributed to the success of your projects?
5. Describe a situation where you facilitated a project that spanned across several departments or functions. What challenges did you face and how did you overcome them?
6. What are the unique qualities of publishing to the web compared to traditional print or broadcast media? How does the management of web activities compare to the others?
7. How have you positively impacted the careers of staff you have mentored or supervised? Please cite a specific example.
8. Describe the process of redesigning a website. Please give an example from your past work if you can.
9. How do you explain what works online and what doesn’t when you are working with someone who is not as experienced as you are with html and the Web?
10. Give us an example of an occasion when you found yourself with competing priorities – more to do than you could possibly get done. What did you do to resolve the situation? Would you do anything different now?
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