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You know you’re working in UX when … I’m sure you’ve heard the expression 'Never work with children or animals' right? Well, after you’ve read this lot, I reckon you’ll want to add participants, facilitators and even clients to this list. You see, since my last blog I’ve spent a few weeks “playing journalist” sourcing weird, wonderful and downright bizarre stories from the UX (User Experience) Community. The idea came to me while I was telling a friend how I had to sit throughout a whole study earlier this year in Norway, trying not to crack up every time a participant had to fill in his name on a form. Thing is, he was doing it with such a straight face that for a long time I thought it really was his name. So it got me thinking that there must be other amusing or even downright weird experiences that my fellow UX practitioners might like to share with me... and share they did! Read more... Why the 'Hierarchy of Relevance' is integral to effective real-time marketing Read more...

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99 Essential Twitter Tools And Applications - Smashing Magazine 99 Essential Twitter Tools And Applications Advertisement If you haven’t heard of Twitter1 by now, you must be living under a rock! Actualité à la Une Facebook Ads, un avenir prometteur ! - Universem - Web traffic optimisation Publié le Mercredi 18 avril 2012 Ce n’est plus un secret pour personne, Facebook est le numéro 1 des réseaux sociaux et compte plus de 800 millions d’inscrits à travers le monde. On peut dire que son créateur, Mark Zuckerberg a senti le bon filon en fondant son site « The Facebook » en février 2004. PR en Social Media: Hear, Hear... Afgelopen weeek publiceerde @puur, naar aanleiding van de eerste bijeenkomst van de Social Media Club Amsterdam een lijstje tips voor Social Media. De tips gingen vooral over passie en lef. In onze discussies met klanten zitten we nog vaak een stap eerder: 'Where to start'. Van het nut om online direct contact te hebben met je doelgroep zijn veel organisaties inmiddels wel overtuigd. Maar waar beginnen we?

TechCrunch 5 Ways to Cope with Google’s Penguin Update - AppNewser Google recently unveiled a major change to its mysterious and powerful search engine algorithm. Along with this “Penguin update,” many of the search engine optimization (SEO) techniques that websites once utilized no longer work. The search engine giant is a major source of discovery for apps and web-based writers, so we’ve collected some advice to make sure your online writing doesn’t get punished by the Google Penguin update. The five tips follow below… Google explained the update: “this algorithm represents another improvement in our efforts to reduce webspam and promote high quality content. While we can’t divulge specific signals because we don’t want to give people a way to game our search results and worsen the experience for users, our advice for webmasters is to focus on creating high quality sites that create a good user experience and employ white hat SEO methods instead of engaging in aggressive webspam tactics.”

19 Ways to Build Relationships With Blog Comments Have you ever left a comment on a blog? How do you feel when the author replies? As we’re all ushered into this age of social media, each and every one of us is looking for ways to form stronger relationships with our audience, especially with current and potential customers. There are many ways to discuss how to cultivate and build relationships. The Future of Facebook Project by Venessa Miemis With over 600 million users and a valuation of over $70 billion, Facebook is the world's dominant social networking platform. What are the challenges a social media company of this size will face? What are the strategic moves it should make? How can Facebook users take advantage of the platform and its increasingly rich social graph? These are the questions we are addressing with the Future of Facebook video series.

Why I'm Not Excited About Mobile Applications - Samir Balwani May 17th, 2011 by Samir Balwani No I don’t think mobile applications are dead, there will be new mobile apps launch today and some of them will probably be extremely successful. Instead, what the title of this article alludes to is the fact that mobile applications are a temporary way for users to access the mobile web. Mobile applications segment data, users, and technology.