Archive for 2009

Latest WebPub Video Now Online

The latest WebPub Presentation is now available from MIT TechTV and you can download a copy of the presentation slides (pdf). Thanks again to Chris Klaehn and Ryan Evans from Corey McPherson Nash for a great presentation on Social Media! Video hosted on MIT TechTV  [read more]

YouTube’s Usability Testing

Developing a seamless web experience is one of the most challenging parts of website design and development. Not only does a website have to be attractive to end-users, but the interface must be intuitive for the users to find what they need or to discover what you, as a content provider, want them to discover. This key question of “What Goes Where?” is the focus of usability testing. YouTube offered insight to their extensive usability process in the redesign of their “Watch” page (the page you see when viewing an actual video). Youtube’s user research revealed... [read more]

WebPub Presents: Social Media and Your Organization

Thursday, September 24, 2009 Time: 12:00p–1:00p Location: N42, Demo Center Speaker: Corey McPherson Nash, a national branding and design firm Social Media, the “building” of shared meaning among communities, is becoming more pervasive in our personal and professional lives. As blogs, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube and Twitter have become growing components of the communications mix, organizations need to develop strategies for using these new media to support their goals and objectives. Every business, school and institution needs to be aware of how social media not only projects who they are... [read more]

Moving Publications from Print to the Web

An effort to ‘go green’ coupled with tightening budgets, many departments, labs, centers and groups are looking at ways to move their traditionally print-based publications to web-based communications. Karine Joly’s article from June 2009 issue of University Business entitled “2010: Print to Web Odyssey? A five-step plan for assessing and negotiating the transition from print to web publications” gives some great insight into the thoughts and issues surrounding the leap from paper to screen. Joly provides a nice, light-weight introductory questions to consider about... [read more]

Internet Stat Center: For all your curious internet factoids.

ReadWriteWeb posted an article about Google’s Internet Stats. As described on the Internet Stats site, “This Google resource brings together the latest industry facts and insights together in one place. These have been collected from a number of third party vendors covering a range of topics from macroscopic economic and media trends to how consumer behaviour and technology are changing over time.” This site is hosted on a UK server, but the data is gathered from companies such as BusinessWeek, Coke, HarvardBusiness.org, Motorola, New York Magazine, PriceWaterhouseCoopers,... [read more]