Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Creating Meaning Is More Powerful Than Creating Artifacts

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

Advanced technology that doesn’t necessarily make things better. Even advanced solutions need to solve a need. We have to be able to create things that are about experiences that are relevant to people.

Technology: Creation, Life, Society & The Environment

Friday, January 8th, 2010

The truth is the technology part is the easiest part of the complex issues we will face in the coming year. Anyone can create technology, but not everyone is creating technology solutions that people really want to use.

Innovation: Not Just About Technology

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

How do you find that combination of things that allows you to uncap creativity and execute on new opportunities that a company that is purely technology or marketing driven will never see?

Why Doesn't Johnny Love Firefox?

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

A couple years back Apple ran an ad campaign intended to get people to switch from PC to Mac. The campaign was pretty good with celebrities and every day users telling us why they switched, but one big thing was missing – a real reason to switch.

Building Disabilities Into Your Personas

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

If your company currently targets small businesses you probably already know that they don’t refer to themselves as small. For example a small construction company would say “we are a construction company”?. They just happen to be small. No one goes into business to be treated like they are small. Small companies would prefer you [...]

How To Teach Anyone RSS

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

If you are a blogger or an avid blog reader chances are you already know how powerful Really Simple Syndications (RSS) is. As cool as it may seem there is still a big problem with RSS – the average person doesn’t get it. Even with the rapid growth of blogs, podcasts and videocasts the average [...]

Tips For The Graduating Web Professional

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

Last week I ran across an interesting article on the quality of today’s textbooks. High points (or low points depending on how you look at it) included students opting out of advanced science and math, light coverage of history and how far American students are falling behind the rest of the world in terms of [...]

Practice The Art Of Giving Back

Saturday, May 6th, 2006

If there is one thing I have learned in my professional career is that giving back can have as much impact on your career development as networking. For the past two semesters I have had the chance to speak to the MISSO (Management Information System Students Organization) at UH. Aside from being a UH alum [...]

Web 2.0 As A Computing Platform

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

I was going through some boxes the other day and stumbled across some old Prodigy project documents. Besides making me nostalgic for the end of the dotcom boom, It really got me thinking back to how long people have been talking about the semantic web and Web 2.0. Back in November 2001, while we were [...]

9 Reasons You Need A Website

Thursday, June 24th, 2004

Sometimes when you write a summary for a blog post it’s hard to figure out exactly what you want to say. Sometimes when you write a summary for a blog post it’s hard to figure out exactly what you want to say.