Infographics try to convey large, complicated ideas in an extremely accessible, readable, and playful way. It’s data visualization in its most effective? accessible? controllable? dynamic? form.
Traditionally, tv events like superbowl allowed brands to reach a huge audience. Then came YouTube (141 million: number of people watching web videos in Feb 2010). Brands tended to start out thinking that Internet video was like a big movie theater that people will watch. Then moved into the area of “viral video”. But it’s not just a matter of aesthetics or a sure-fire style. It’s inherently something you can’t necessarily “buy”.
How do you get beyond that point of being only a code-monkey. What’s your ideal career? What are the roadblocks? What are the solutions?
Happy people do better things. It’s easier to be a bad manager, harder to be a manager that has a happy team that will “go to war for you”.
When you are managing teams, your job is to make people successful.
This panel is packed. Could people really want a new way to work? And they gave us their book just for attending. That convinces me they believe themselves when they say “this is a social movement”.
This is a culture change. Give people autonomy to do your job as long as the work gets done, the results happen. Instead of work being a place you go, work should be something you do. In a ROWE, each person is free to do whatever they want, whenever they want as long as the work gets done. Pay employees to get an outcome, instead of paying them to “do a lot of stuff” and not get an outcome.
As the job market starts to improve, people are going to changing jobs during a time when people are focusing on happiness; finding work that is important/personal to them. If organizations want to keep their people, you need to think about the way your employees work. ROWE is here to stay!
Future of search from the perspective of semantics. Using the data on the web began with search (literal match), evolved to specific/contextual answers to specific questions, and could move on to asking the web to do something for you more than just answer questions.
Should we drop the term “Semantic Web” and replace it with “Computable Web”?
There are markers and paper being distributed, butcher paper being put up on the wall. Get ready to touch and feel, people.
UI Architecture: all the stuff that it takes to process, package, deliver, and communicate with the client (templating url routing, data validatiion, formatting, ajax). “Between the front and back end”: stuff between presentational javascript and the backend logic. The middle end gives a web 2.0 app performance.
We need to talk about this because of issues with performance and optimization, the MVC model spaghetti code failure (outputting html if a condition exists: the mixture of model code inside view template, too tight coupling between presentation layer and model layer), “don’t repeat yourself” (DRY: repeating code over and over again, i.e., duplicating validation in the client and the server, “any time there is more than one copy of something, one copy is always wrong”), and role separation (wearing multiple skillset hats and mixing contexts–markup/css switch to javascript switch to backend app–without being able to focus on one context at a time).
This isn’t another framework, it’s an optimized/reworked “alternate pattern” of MVC in an attempt to solve some of the weaknesses/problems of MVC. Can we decouple the view from the existing architecture stack?
CVC + JavaScript puts the power of UI architecture in the hands of front-end engineers.
[ I usually don't copy/paste from the brochure, but this one had the best hook that I couldn't write better myself. ]
11th hour copy. Fix-it-later launches. Our users deserve more than the last-minute content we often get stuck with. And you have the power to change the game. Learn how to introduce (and sell) content strategy into your web design process.
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I have a feeling this presentation is going to make the best podcast to listen to. Kristina is awesome. She’d better put this on slideshare.
