Seattle Information Architecture User Experience Meetup

the Blog is Back

By On January 9, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Like many others before, I went away from my blog to work on other people’s blogs so it’s been over a year since I’ve posted. What a year it was!

Where am I now?

In Seattle, co-hosting the Information Architecture/User Experience Meetup on the second Tuesdays of the month [...]

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Webinar Resources

By On November 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment

I’m back after 3 weeks on the road. 2 of them in Spain with no laptop, phone, email, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or YouTube though I did watch Barca and Athletico Madrid football games on TV. And now it’s all about how to structure my time as [...]

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All about Kindle

By On November 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment

I have moved to the side of Kindle and am busily pdf-ing documents to read while literally walking down the street. I’ve also been playing with the browser feature and hope to see that expand in future models.

But mostly I look for free books

Like Neil Gaiman’s A Study in Emerald [...]

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Community Management – what’s in your browser?

By On September 30, 2010 · Leave a Comment

I am officially a Community Manager. I manage blogs, twitter and facebook channels and try to think about every other little scrap of information that might interest these communities and how I can share it. Everyday, I start with my smartphone. Checking the email, twitter and facebook mentions I missed while asleep. Mentally add to [...]

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Content Strategy for Multiple Channels

By On September 28, 2010 · Leave a Comment

I’ve been thrilled working on my new blog with the Washington Ensemble Theatre, so much so I have neglected my own blog for too long. It is easier to write when you have a cause and a passion – local theatre is definitely one of mine.

Working on the blog [...]

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Content Strategy is more than Buzz

By On September 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The Seattle Content Strategy Meetup Ask a Content Strategist Panel was an excellent informational for anyone considering how content strategy works within the many roles and situations it can sit. Whether you’re free-lance, agency or in-house staff, if you are interested in how the content puzzle fits together to tell a story – as [...]

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Seattle’s UX Meetup

By On August 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment

August 10th was another successful meetup of the IA/UX group in Seattle. I’ve talked with the organizers Rachel Elkington & Andrew Szydlowski about why this event is so successful. The fact that there is no talk, no agenda, no formal presentation – you just have to show up and talk with other people who [...]

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The UX calendar

By On August 4, 2010 · Leave a Comment

It seems like every community has a stellar volunteer who takes it upon him or herself to organize information in a helpful and meaningful way. In Seattle, one of those people is Nick Finck, offering the superb UX Calendar. Without it, I really wouldn’t know when the IA meetup, IXDA meetup, Content Strategy [...]

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MindTouch’s MIB Most Influential Tech Comm Blogger

By On July 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Mark Fidelman’s post on the most influential technical communicator bloggers offered some interesting metrics. Using the MIB (most influential blogger) scale based on Alexa, Klout Influence, Google Page Rank, Technorati Authority, and Twitter Followers, it’s a lovely advertisement for those who made it to the top 25, even offering them a nice badge.

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Content Strategy links

By On July 28, 2010 · Leave a Comment

July has been a giant month for Content Strategy and here are the links to prove it

Nick Finck’s Presentation July 15 at Content Strategy Seattle
How content strategy fits into the user experience

Incisive’s 5 part series on content curation:
Curating the Deck Chairs on the Titanic

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