Casual Fridays

You probably noticed I’m trying out a new WordPress template.  Please be patient as I work out the bugs.
Wrapping up the year, Here are some great reads from other blogs:
Being Peter Kim: Wunderman on direct marketing. Or was it social media?
A Nostradamesque marketing prediction from 40 years ago. As they say, a man before […]

MIT has a great resource including free videos of presentations made at MIT by an impressive line-up of speakers. Jack Welch, Jeffrey Bezos and Carly Florina just to name a few.
I’ve known about this for a while and yet I’ve only watched one presentation video.
If these speakers were making appearances here in Tulsa, I’d […]

If you ever wanted to create your own Star Wars movie, now’s your chance… kinda.
In celebration of their 30th Anniversary, Star Wars has unveiled mashup.starwars.com.  It contains about 250 clips and an online editor, allowing fans to mix and match clips together… creating various scenarios.
It’s not perfect, so you have to use your imagination quite […]

I’ll be honest.  This scares the bejeebers out of me:
Wannaspell.com is a live whiteboard in which anyone can move magnetic letters around to spell out words, etc. Lets see how many times the word “Digg” can be spelled out in a room! This is the coolest site I’ve seen all day.
The live whiteboard doesn’t scare […]

My friend Jason, who is a web developer, asked the question
Is there any value in “brochure” type web sites?
Not much, I think. Here’s why:
My philosophy is that “Mom and Pops” are better served by following a permission marketing approach with websites.
1. How can I create content people will COME BACK to read?
time-sensitive, changes often, […]

The ever so practical Jakob Nielsen gives his list of Top 10 Web Design Mistakes.
They’re so easy to overcome, yet so often overlooked. In my opinion, at least six of these mistakes are easily fixed with a good blog or simply good content management software.
1. Bad Search
2. PDF Files for Online Reading
3. Not Changing […]

In a short span of time today, two good examples of websites leveraging typically static pages:
Flickr error page from Right Half Chow
Icon Factory under construction from Idea Sandbox