Category: Social Media

  • The Dementor Game

    So I came up with a silly game. It goes like this: Get quotes from Harry Potterbooks/movies about the Dementors Replace Dementors with Clients/Lawyers/Marketers/Telemarketers Replace Azkaban with the client’s office, if needed Hilarity ensues Examples: “Clients are among the foulest creatures that walk this earth. They infest the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay…

  • What will it take for the Web to work on TV?

    Part I: Better Bookmark and URL Entry There are numerous speculative articles out about where television is heading, particularly its tenuous but growing relationship with social media. This post is taking a different approach. What will TV itself have to do, from a user and browsing experience to succeed? This is post one of two.…

  • Platform Pet Peeves

    Lately I’ve noticed what seems to me to be sloppy user experience design (UXD) in many of the apps I use. If the mistakes were on small, indie apps that lack the budget for a User Experience Designer or an Information Architect, I could let these go (although why are you building apps if you…

  • When you say X, you really mean Y

    When You Say… All I hear is… "We’re the leading social media app developer…" "We’ve weaseled into large client meetings, but have yet to bag one" "We’re market leaders in social media ROI" "We just figured out what ROI stands for from an article in Mashable" "We’re looking to expand our horizons…" "You have money…

  • What’s Hot (and Not) in Social Media

    What's Hot (and Not) in Social Media View more presentations from Dave Linabury.

  • An Internet Guide for Baby Boomers

    Dear Baby Boomers, It’s time you learn to talk about the Internet intelligently. Seriously. You’re really embarrassing the rest of us every time we hear you say, “The Google” or “all those Facebooks”. Here’s a quick, but handy guide to get you up to speed with the rest of the planet so you won’t have…