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This post was written by Jenny Urbano, our Social Media Manager. Here at Demandforce, we love seeing and celebrating your ideas! And more than that, we love to hear from YOU. We want to bridge the gap between us and you, so that’s why we’re offering a once in a lifetime opportunity to win a trip to San Francisco, sightsee in this amazing city, visit Demandforce headquarters and share your ideas with us! 6 winners, and a guest of their choice will be flown out to San Francisco, California on March 12-14th, 2014, where they will stay in Union Square, spend a day at Demandforce, have dinner with the team, and explore the lovely City by the Bay! For contest rules, and how to enter, please visit our post in the Generation Demandforce Community here. Good luck! The contest ends on February 21st, 2014! "Content Strategy, Manhatten Style" - my notes from th. On Tuesday night I had the enjoyable task of moderating the "Content Strategy, Manhattan Style" event jointly organised by Content Strategy UK and London IA.

We were lucky to have three great panel members over from the USA for the evening: Rachel Lovinger, Jeff MacIntyre and Karen McGrane. There seemed to be a lot of pain in the audience from being involved in digital projects where 'the content' is an 11th hour afterthought, cobbled together by the intern and the marketing guy, with an interfering hand from the CEO, rather than a thought through part of the development process. The good news from the panel was that most businesses only need to see one of these type of project failures before learning that investing in content strategy is a must. It isn't just an issue for launch. Jeff calls it the 'day 2' problem.

One of the descriptions of content strategy that struck an obvious chord with me was the idea that it is 'information architecture over time'. Cupcake Occasions. Tickets R sold out 4 Cesaria Evora @ Barbican nxt Tuesday in Lon. Disco and Atomic War (15*) A documentary about growing up in the Soviet Union, but close enough to Finland to receive the forbidden fruit of Finnish television - a window to a world of dreams that the authorities could not block. Though Finnish channels were banned, many households found some way to access them leading to a strange kind of information war, where a totalitarian regime stands face-to-face with the heroes of popular culture, when it was possible for the erotic film Emmanuelle and JR in Dallas to bring down the Red Army!

This personal deadpan-comic document shows how director Kilmi and other grade schoolers in early-80s Estonia had their lives altered, and has it’s tongue planted firmly in its cheek. Estonia 2009 Dir. Jaak Kilmi 80 min.In Estonian with English subtitles Part of East End Film Festival 2010 * Local Classification Arthouse, Blockbusters, Festivals and Seasons Barbican Film - London's most diverse cinema. Electronic music "focusing on science fictional & cyber. Beeclip HQ :: London, Greater London. Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids.

Internet meme in the making? YouTube Search Stories. Sign In to London IA - London IA. By the Numbers: Facebook vs The United States [INFOGRAPHIC] Muhammad Saleem is a social media consultant and a top-ranked community member on multiple social news sites. Follow him on Twitter for more social media insights. Facebook's official company statistics outline the breakdown of the sites over 400 million active users.

While the site points out about 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States, it doesn't dive deeper into the U.S. numbers. To find out more about the average American Facebook user and how he or she compares to the average American, we dug a little further. After crunching the numbers and comparing the data, this is what we found. Click the Image for Full Size Version Editor's Note: The DC number is greater than 100% because of the disproportionate amount of people who technically reside elsewhere but live in DC, and it would include people in surrounding cities who claim to live in DC on their profiles.

100 facts every young entrepreneur should know. Unmoderated, Remote Usability Testing: Good or Evil? :: UXmatter. By Kyle Soucy Published: January 18, 2010 “Recently, there has been a surge in the number of tools that are available for conducting unmoderated, remote usability testing—and this surge is changing the usability industry.” Conducting traditional synchronous, or moderated, usability testing requires a moderator to communicate with test participants and observe them during a study—either in person or remotely. Unmoderated, automated, or asynchronous usability testing, as the name implies, occurs remotely, without a moderator. The use of a usability testing tool that automatically gathers the participants’ feedback and records their behavior makes this possible. Recently, there has been a surge in the number of tools that are available for conducting unmoderated, remote usability testing—and this surge is changing the usability industry.

And clickdensity —or Web analytics tools that turn analytics data into videos of actual user sessions—such as Userfly, ClickTale, TeaLeaf, and Clixpy. UserZoom. How to Use a Start Page to Stay Organized : Technology :: Americ. With so many online productivity tools at our disposal, there's never been a better time to check up on what's out there to help optimize yo January 04, 2010 With so many online productivity tools at our disposal, there's never been a better time to check up on what's out there to help optimize your work flow. One such class of tools that can help set up a dashboard of critical "at a glance" information is the personalized start page.

RSS reader, a start page can help you stay on top of a large volume of information. What sets a start page apart is the ability to integrate far more than just news feeds, including everything from e-mail, to your calendar, to the weather report, to the current time in other places around the world where you do business. iGoogle and the latter with My Yahoo. Netvibes and Pageflakes, both of which offer full-featured start page alternatives to the big companies' offerings. iStockphoto, smartstock. How a Journalist Engages Fans. Kristof has 145,979 fans on Facebook. He writes at The New York Times and he writes for his readers.

He's humanizing his work by telling the stories of the people he meets through his personal lens. And he's doing that in a conversational medium that allows his fans to interact with him however they choose to do it - by comments, likes, with images. It looks like he's using his Facebook page as a place to put his field notes to capture what interests him and what he's learning. This is a great use of an interactive tool to build community around ideas and connections. A few things that caught my attention on the page that help interaction and engagement: 1. simple call to action - Fan Nick! 2. a specific tab for his upcoming book, Half the Sky 3. use of boxes to organize content on the page 4. use of teasers and puzzles to jump start a conversation 5. asking fans to vote for or pick something 6. use of video and photography - an image is worth a thousand words. Usabilla Officially Launches. Remote usability testing service Usabilla has officially launched with tiered payment plans and PDF reports for all your test results.

They will continue to provide a free service for up to 5 pages which lets you analyze the results of the first 25 participants of each test. The Amsterdam based usability startup has been making impressive progress since their launch nearly six months ago. With the help of beta testers Usabilla have been able to build a useful tool to collect feedback on webpages, mockups, sketches, and other images. According to their press release, more then 2500 usability experts, web designers, online marketeers and other web professionals are using Usabilla to conduct remote usability tests and collect feedback. I have been a beta user of Usabilla during their pre-release this year, and Usabilla is a Konigi sponsor. The IATV Bookstore - Designing Social Web Applications (Voices T.

Produktinformation Amazon-Verkaufsrang: #148014 in Bücher Veröffentlicht am: 2008-04-24 Abmessungen: 9.13" h x .35" b x 7.36" l, .82 Pfund Einband: Taschenbuch 192 Seiten Aus der Amazon-Redaktion Kurzbeschreibung No matter what type of web site or application you're building, social interaction among the people who use it will be key to its success. Synopsis Über den Autor Massachusetts-based JOSHUA PORTER is a web designer, consultant, and blogger who has been building web sites for over a decade. Kundenrezensionen Hilfreichste Kundenrezensionen 0 von 1 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich. Lays out a useful framework Von Hans Bürgermeister The ideas presented in the book are hardly anything new if one has been observing social web services but the value is in the logical construction where various issues are logically fitted.

All 1 Kundenrezensionen anzeigen ... How Facebook Is Making Friending Obsolete. Un-Facebook Yourself. From Wired How-To Wiki Sometimes, social networking is just a bit too social. If you're feeling vulnerable on Facebook, the web's biggest social hangout, you can easily take control over who can see your information. Facebook gives you quite a bit of say over who in your circle sees what. If you don't want to share any information anymore, the site also lets you remove yourself completely.

Read on to learn how to take back your privacy. This article is part of a wiki. Go Completely Private Facebook's default privacy settings are in the middle of the road. Load Facebook's privacy settings and click on Profile. Your choices: Everyone (choose this option only if you want to be completely public) My Networks and Friends (the default) People at main network and Friends Friends of Friends Customize If you choose the final option, Customize, you can select the only friends setting, which is the most restrictive setting. Restrict Some Contacts Facebook's profile privacy page No judgement here.

RT @RachelSterne: RT @iwantmedia 'Twitter does indeed make. This is so cool... Lamps with levitating switches: Personas. Getting Started with a New SEO Project - Search Engine Watch (SE. The Myth of Usability Testing. In 1998, usability expert Rolf Molich (co-inventor with Jakob Nielsen of the heuristic evaluation method) gave nine teams three weeks to evaluate the webmail application www.hotmail.com. The experiment was part of his series of Comparative Usability Evaluations (CUEs), through which he began to identify a set of standards and best practices for usability tests. In each segment of the series, Molich asked several usability teams to evaluate a single design using the method of their choice. From the documented results of the second test, called CUE-2, a surprising trend appeared. Contrary to claims that usability professionals operate scientifically to identify problems in an interface, usability evaluations are at best less than scientific.

In an interview with Christine Perfetti published in User Interface Engineering, Molich said: The CUE-2 teams reported 310 different usability problems. The most frequently reported problem was reported by seven of the nine teams. Conclusions#section9. UX Exchange. GB Online Consumer Behaviour Study: 2009 Harris Interactive- Sur. Competing in the Social Customer's World - Getting Hotter. When I wrote the margin of utility a few weeks ago, that was only one of a series of posts that I want to present to y'all on "how to engage customers. " I think, regardless of what we want to call it, we're all in agreement that since customers are now different - are now social customers - or at least a significant and increasing percentage of the population is - that we have to develop customer engagement strategies in business that help figure out how to collaborate with customers in ways that can provide value to all parties involved. In order to do that, given that we are at a fairly early stage, there are two pieces that I'm going to concern myself with and hope that you'll work with me on.

Second, what are the issues of social psychology, of cultural anthropology that give us insight into the way the social customer thinks and lives? What are the foundations of the science of business that we're attempting to realize with Social CRM? Why do we need that? Competing in The Markets.