By Mike McCready on April 30, 2010
We’ve seen many videos talking about social media. You know the video, with an upbeat backtrack and countless statistics screaming across the video. These are thought provoking videos, but one thing is missing in all the statistics; human connections. Rogers Communications produced a great video that talks about technology and does provide thought provoking statistics, [...]
Posted in Web Technologies | Tagged Business, Marketing and Advertising, Rogers Communications, Social Media, Statistics, technology, trends
By Mike McCready on October 18, 2009
I’ve noticed a shift in the web design world. Maybe the shift isn’t recent, maybe I’m just become aware of it. The increasing importance of involving the user in the design process. User centered design is becoming especially important in higher education. As colleges and universities begin to face tougher times due to reduced budgets, [...]
Posted in Redesign, Reviews, Web Technologies | Tagged Design, focus groups, Human-Computer Interaction, Redesign, Usability, Usability Testing, Usabilla, user testing, web design, Website
By Mike McCready on September 23, 2009
If you’ve been working on the web in the last couple of years, you may have heard the term Semantic Web or Web 3.0. You also may have no idea what this mean or hunch, but not a strong foundation. I have a previous post that talks about the future of the web that might [...]
Posted in Web Technologies | Tagged Communication, Knowledge Management, Knowledge representation, Metadata, RDF, relationships, Semantic Web, Tim Berners-Lee, Web 3.0
By Mike McCready on May 19, 2009
I saw this video posted on Jeremiah Owyang’s blog and thought it was worth sharing. GLUE allows you to share in your web browsing experience with your friends. Jeremiah has talked about different eras of the social web and the Era of Social Colonization starts this year and GLUE helps facilitate this. As a recap, [...]
Posted in Social Media, Web Technologies
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