Articles Archive for May 2009
web design »
HTML5, Accessibility & Open Standards: BSC Talk by Bruce Lawson
The vision: making the web (Communication medium) freely accessible to all, regardless of interface, device or physical ability. Does that sound like a good vision to you?
Last night I was lucky enough to be asked along to a BCS talk by Bruce Lawson, an accessibility and standards evangelist working for Opera.
I share his vision, the ability to access the web (one web) from any platform in the best way regardless of physical ability.
HTML5: Is a super-set of HTML4, it extends the …
Social Media »
I’ve just been reading a good article on advertising in Social Media environments by eConsultancy.
“A survey conducted by Knowledge Networks throws the consensus into question. It found that less than 5% of social media participants aged 13 to 54 “regularly turn to these sites for guidance on purchase decisions“.”
The full article: Social media doesn’t drive purchasing decisions: report
Project Management »
I recently recieved a great e-mail from Brian Cronin at Adaptive Path with some brief yet accurate tips on becoming a great project manager as follows:
What is a manager? What are they really supposed to do? My dictionary provides the following definition:
manager (noun)
a person responsible for controlling or administering all or part of a company or similar organization.
This is the classic understanding most people have of what a project manager is and does, yet I find that it is possible not only to ‘control’ a project, but also to
