University web marketing and usability

…formerly “Sardionerak’s tiny shed”, but that was bit too vague…

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I work as a web coordinator for three very different faculties at a university in Sydney. This is my story...

Archive for October, 2007

Alright, I know that this is old news for most people who read this, but I have to talk about it for reasons of completion.
The University of California, Berkeley has put over 200 (!!!) videos on YouTube and created a dedicated page for their institution on the no. 1 video sharing site on the internet:
University […]

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In our team, we recently had a discussion about text resizing widgets and their pros and cons. I was somewhat shocked when I encountered fierce opposition again the introduction for those little helpful buttons - they were supposed to be harmful!
All I can say is: I don’t think so!
Some claim that people would use those […]

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Scott Berkun delivered the opening keynote for the second day of the conference, and he had just the right mix of humour and facts to get an otherwise rather sleepy crowd kicked off to another exciting day. The title of his speech “The Myths of Innovation” is based on his latest book with the same […]

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