Usability Design
by Garth A. Buchholz | DigitalPractices Media Inc. ISSN 1920-1893
Categories: Web 2.0, trends | Comments Off

Back in the 90s, the web simply delivered information to people who passively accessed it. It’s a Web 2.0 world now, where people interact, contribute, and connect.
When you look at the power of the Web 2.0 trend in the Internet economy, most people point to the success of Facebook, or the influence of Web 2.0 [...]

Categories: SaaS, Web 2.0, business, podcasting, social media, social networking, software, trends, usability, user-centred design, web strategy | Comments Off

When most businesses hear about the rise of social media – i.e. blogging, podcasting, social networks such as Facebook – their reactions can be paraphrased as “Interesting, but how is that going to help our business?” or “I don’t want my employees wasting their time socializing on the Web.”
With social media, the emphasis is on [...]

Categories: Cloud Computing, digital practices, eBusiness, online collaboration, social networking, telework, trends, virtual networking | Comments Off

If everyone thinks telework is a great idea, why aren’t all employers doing it?  
If only we could rise on a weekday morning without having to put on our work clothes, start a cranky car, fight our way through smoggy traffic, pay for expensive parking stalls, then do it all over again at the end of the day. [...]

Categories: Cloud Computing, Internet, content, convergent media, digital practices, eBusiness, eCommerce, information technology, intellectual property (IP), intranets, net neutrality, social media, social networking, trends | Comments Off

When I was updating my information on LinkedIn.com, a business networking site that allows professionals to create and expand their own private networks of colleagues, clients and consultants, it occurred to me that in an open Internet environment where it’s hard to know who you can trust (e.g. what used to be called “cold calling” [...]