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Have you ever wanted to create a new and different User Experience on top of a tried and true delivery platform? That is just what a new book published by Apress and written by my EMC Colleague Erik Swenson teaches people how to do.  I recently had the pleasure of previewing a copy and participating in editing those chapters that pertained ...

As an enthusiast of Software Development, I imagine that You have already been exposed to the term 'Personas' before in the context of a User Centered Design discussion.  In this article I intend to explain what 'User Journeys' are, how to create them, and why they are more appropriate for use in an enterprise Corporate Intranet design ...

Think Web 2.0 is all about Social Networking and the Personalized Taxonomy? Your mileage may vary. We’ve all heard the hype about the dramatically improved Social Networking tools within SharePoint 2010, but what does it really mean to implement these tools in a corporate intranet environment?  How does the use of Social Networking tools ...

Good IA for SP2010 is about having a scalable design plan and sticking to it.   As you plan out the Sitemap and Taxonomy for Your SharePoint deployment, it’s important to remember that establishing a logical over-arching Site Structure for your corporate intranet must take precedence over the temptation to implement the latest trends in ...

User Activity Feeds with SharePoint 2010 & Newsgator Social Sites or 'If you want Facebook-like Activity Feeds in SP 2010?, It may be more work than you imagined.' By now You’ve probably had the opportunity to play around with ‘best of breed’ Social Networking tools like Facebook, Jive, or DIGG!.  What you may not know is that many ...

Put April 17th in your diaries now folks - there's a happening on our doorstep. From 2pm, five Borough Market pubs will be host to 20 speakers (none yet confirmed) who'll be talking about the future... Seems the esteemed Rory Sutherland was there in 2006 telling it like it is - as per usual. Social networking in real life: ...

Or should I say ''color''? Seems colour war has broken out among the twitterari! Not content with the sky-ish blue default background, there's a rash of poster paint-coloured backgrounds happening all over... There's an update of the latest winners and losers here: http://corvida.ilumine.net/boredom-strikes-on-twitter-with-color/ Seems the ...

Having recently worked at a Big Ad Agency, I recognised more than a few truths in Bruce Nussbaum's article: 'Are Big Ad Agencies So Clueless That Corporations Should Avoid Them?', in Business Week magazine last week. He says: "Mainstream ad agencies have one refrain--one message to their corporate clients--do social ...