ChocoNancy Shows Her ChocoLove Originally uploaded by cogdogblog Alan Levine, aka Cogdog, took this funny picture of me while we were at a “tweet-up” dinner at EdMedia 09 in Hawaii in June. I really enjoyed the dinner, new friends, and of course t... read more

July 4 is Independence Day here in the States, which, for most of us, entails the risk of losing: your fingers to cheap fireworks; your waistline to hot dogs; your liver. All of which, as a red-blooded American, I support wholeheartedly. But if y... read more

Recently I spoke with Intrix founder, Davorin Gabrovec, about his new venture. Intrix is a spin off of Intera, a successful business web application company, where he realized through working with hundreds of small to medium sized businesses in k... read more

Buzz isn't scheduled, especially bad buzz. Thanks to Twitter, it can snowball into an avalanche of angry buzz after hours or during a weekend, just in time for the Monday morning news, as Amazon and Motrin recently learned. (Recent bad buzz for Do... read more

(A recent column I wrote for Mobile Marketer.) On the surface, there are stark differences between business-to-business marketing and business-to-consumer marketing: audience size, volume of sales and magnitude of purchases. But as mobile becomes... read more

Variant design in Optimization is important, and it deserves more care and attention from Optimization test designers.  In the current practice of test design, much attention is paid to analytics numbers when deciding the hypothesis and direction ... read more

Cat Sacdalan, a graphics designer, was unhappy at work. Not only that, her father had been sick, and the fact that she’d been working at home a lot to be with him didn’t sit well with some of her co-workers. Cat wrote me that: For 8 months I... read more

Zip CarThis is nice. Instead of just a video still, the designers of this site took the opportunity to tell us a little about the video and encourage us to press play. This is a good example of staying on our game, little things like this can go a... read more

each month, RCCS Reviews pumps out free, full-length reviews of books about contemporary media and culture. books of the month for july 2009 are:Cheating: Gaining Advantage in VideogamesAuthor: Mia ConsalvoPublisher: MIT Press, 2007Review 1: Bryan... read more

The following post is a part of a series called "Explainer Tips" where we share lessons we've learned in crafting explanations. Looking back on my education, one thing becomes clear: I was a not a good math student. What I've learned since then, i... read more

I recently gave a presentation on adaptive knowledge architectures (slides and audio). The presentation was more a case study than anything else. I ended with two slides of lessons learned -- what I would do differently in hindsight to avoid the d... read more

Having successfully made it to Seattle, I’ve been caught up in the haze of work, two year old, and unpacking. What better time to point out a guest post I wrote a while back over at the GasPedal blog. Since it’s summer, it’s time to talk smoothies... read more

I have retired my blogspot blog in favor of a wordpress blog on my own server: Wendy Chisholm AND we have a blog for the book, Universal Design for Web Applications (O'Reilly Media, 2008) AND I've been twittering and flickring and all sorts of stu... read more

I bought a new bike two weeks ago. Its a hybrid Trek and I am loving it. We started biking to work (except for early morning meetings - I need every minute on those days). Last weekend we rode our bikes to Ocean Beach. We took the Wiggle (a non hi... read more

For those of you waiting for the Google/YouTube vs. Viacom et al case to settle out before pro-actively searching your site for copyright violations added by members, here’s a name to remembe... read more