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December, 2008

17 December

Great blog content

Chris Bogan has posted a great list of 40 Ways to Deliver Blog Content. Not that I follow it, but if I wanted to have an awesome blog, I would.

5 December

Newspapers are going, going . . .

Within the first week of me moving to Little Rock an argument has broken out over the effectiveness of online media between a local tv reporter, Kristin Fisher, who has started a not necessarily innovative choose your news feature on the nightly news and curmudgeon newspaper columnist, John Brummett. Brummett [...]

4 December

Plus one for drupal (no html needed)

Morris Interactive is launching a new drupal powered site for their Jacksonville Newspaper and have developed some great new features. My favorite feature extolled by Morris Interactive VP Steve Yelvington allows editors to design new home page and feature page layouts with no html knowledge– that’s right you heard me [...]

3 December
Posted in Technology

Moving: Utilities

This is my first report in my “how moving works online” series looking specifically at how moving my utilities work. Our utility provider is Entergy that also covers portions of Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. Entergy has developed sites for each of the areas that they cover, so I used [...]

2 December

Social networking for patients

Since I started working at UAMS, I have been paying closer attention to healthcare and medical sites. I ran across an interesting website last night– patientslikeme. Basically it’s a social network for people diagnosed with serious illnesses. The site says Thousands of patients with ALS/Motor Neuron Disease, Devic’s NMO, HIV, [...]

2 December
Posted in Online Media

Try Feedback Army for instant feedback

If you’re tired of asking your family and friends to let you know what they think about your latest design and you don’t have time or money for formal usability testing, you should try out Feedback Army. The new service uses Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to get 10 random peoples response [...]

Newspaper rips TV in breaking news

Here’s a hilarious promo for the Austin American Statesman newspaper breaking news as they rip TV for being slow about breaking news.

1 December
Posted in Online Media

Compare your page rank

Here’s a new SEO tool to make sure you keep your page rank at the top of your mind. Exactfactor compares two sites against each other on Google, Yahoo and Live search on whatever key words you request. If you register for an account, Exactfactor will email you a weekly [...]

1 December
Posted in Technology

How moving works online

So, we are about to move and I want to test the convenience of moving online. How many businesses, organizations, services, banks have the necessary moving services online? How do those services work? Is in real-time or time delayed. Are they user-friendly? As I take care of the business of [...]

1 December
Posted in Marketing, Online Media

Facebook plans to connect with your friends on other sites

The NY Times reports that the facebook connect service is finally going to start coming online this week as a number of prominent sites start to include it in their web of services. In the past the decision for site owners was always whether to build your own social network [...]

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