Archive for the ‘usability’ Category
Sunday, January 16th, 2011
I first heard about this program some months back: fellowships for 20 people to leverage the web for city governments across the US. Selection criteria included talent, experience, and passion.
They announced the 2011 Code for America Fellows in November. I was delighted to see a friend of a ...
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Sunday, December 27th, 2009
I've been writing about tech and CM mostly behind the company firewall at my job for a while now, particularly this last year since I've been writing for the company newsletter. However, I've also built up a body of short notes at my ConFigures account on Twitter. I got a ...
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Saturday, August 1st, 2009
I picked up a Palm Pre the first day it was available, June 6. I'm very happy with it overall. It works very well as a phone (both sound quality and override of other apps), and I love the easy flow and integration between the different apps and underlying software. ...
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Saturday, July 4th, 2009
I've had some experience working with fielded wikis since I wrote disgruntledly about LibraryThing's implementation of them in October 2007. I knew at the time of their potential for being able to extract info for other purposes, but I had come into using wikis with a great appreciation for ...
Posted in Knowledge gardening, LibraryThing, book, knowledge management, learning, usability | 2 Comments »
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
I passed on my old Magellan Maestro 3225 (reviewed last year) not long ago to one of my sisters when I got exasperated with its inability to properly find my work location (I started a new job last May) or the library (we got a new downtown center in 2007), ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
I started using LibraryThing because I liked its tagging power (for browsing and searching). I also liked its less-commercial book pages, fondness for and willingness to work with libraries, and above-average books reviews from LT members, and book-based discussions (easy to find and see updates on discussions of ...
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