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  Ouch! Received an email this morning stating that playful design has no place in a business context!   For the last 3 weeks a small team of us have been working on an Enterprise Search application and we finally have something to show for our hard endeavours.  Our Microsoft Surface Enterprise Search demo rears it's pretty ...

  Childlike, in many ways, I retained that inquisitive nature which makes children so frustrating and adorable in equal measures.  Not a thing escapes Isobel’s attention without the questioning of what is that daddy? The Internet gives me access to such a wealth of information and satisfies my urges as an information whore.  ...

About three times a year I have a debate with someone calling from American Express about data security and identity theft. I've never blogged it before, because I didn't have an answer - and nobody likes a ranter!  Now read on: My mobile phone rings - the called ID says "witheld" or "private" and someone says ...

I saw a slogan on the side of a bus the other day: "Swap laptops for flip-flops" This is the latest in a long line of media and advertising that suggests that the computer is a part of our work lives, and that generally we should loathe it. Also that it is never part of our leisure lives; something we might actually enjoy ...

A client recently asked me whether the Courtesy Title field for their Contact Form should be a drop-down menu or a text-input control.  This conundrum needs to account for this client’s impressive International clientele.  Not just your regular Mr & Mrs but the full spectrum of titles ranging from Spiritual Leaders to ...

Amazon - purveyor of books. Sorry, purveyor of books and CDs. Sorry, books, CDs and videos DVDs. Actually, I guess it's now books, CDs, DVDs, t-shirts, cameras, mp3 players, duvets, ovens, garden gnomes,... you get the idea. Well, they've finally forgotten why they came to the party in the first place. They're so overwhelmed ...

To facilitate the Community Day podstorming session I broke the topic down in to smaller components.  Each component was presented as a question.  What follows is a brief summary of the main components we covered.   What are the benefits of producing a podcast?   In Is Anybody Listening pt I I presented a ...

The brains were stormed and some great ideas were shared at our first podstorming session.  The session covered the why’s and what if’s but time cut short our discussion of the how to’s.  So the output from this session covers the audience, benefits and blockers but only skims over the format and structure of the ...

Friday’s Podstorming session will explore ideas for the Interactive Media Team podcast.  As mentioned in my previous post I’ll be blogging the actual steps we take in creating the podcast, from determining business objectives and understanding our audience through to final production and hearing our voices resonate across the ...

I’m running a number of podstorming (podcast + brainstorming) sessions over the next few months to design a podcast format for our Interactive Media Team.  There are plenty of web sites which tell you the basics of Podcasting so instead of regurgitating this I’ll be blogging the actual steps we take in creating the podcast, ...