I just posted a bunch of upcoming meetings to the GISMO website. Additional details are in the GISMO calendar. Events through May: Thursday, April 29, 5:00pm: GGSA Spring Lecture SeriesHunter College, North Building in room 1022, New York, NY“Lost Geographies and Failed Globalization: From Versailles to Iraq”Neil Smith, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center … Read more
The new CMS Wiki has a definition of a Content Management System.http://www.cmswiki.com/tiki-index.php?page=ContentManagementSystem. It also has a discussion of the confusing term portal.http://www.cmswiki.com/tiki-editpage.php?page=Portal And something on Workflow.http://www.cmswiki.com/tiki-index.php?page=WorkFlow CMS Review has references to all the great books on Content Managemant. http://www.cmsreview.com/Resources/Books.html.
Today, I went to a NYC City Council Public Hearing of the Committee on Technology in Government, on the role of the City’s 59 Community Boards in the 311 system. 311 is the new number that New Yorkers dial to ask questions about New York City services, make complaints and to get information, such as … Read more
Visio stencils – Henrik Olsen’s web prototyping stencils and templateuses: prototyping, wireframeshttp://www.guuui.com/issues/02_03_02.php – Michael Angeles’s wireframe stencilsuses: prototyping, wireframeshttp://studioid.com/pg/visio_wireframe_stencil.php – Jesse James Garrett’s stencilsuses: flowhttp://www.jjg.net/ia/visvocab/ – Peter Van Dijk’s stencils (four of them here)uses: sitemaps, isometric sitemaps, prototyping, wireframes, flowhttp://iabook.com/template.htm – Peter Van Dijck’s older stencilsuses: prototyping, wireframeshttp://poorbuthappy.editthispage.com/stories/storyReader$51
Personas and Roles Some Persona URLS:http://www.cooper.com/content/insights/newsletters_personas.asphttp://iawiki.net/PersonaDesignhttp://foruse.com/newsletter/foruse15.htm#3 Sometimes Personas is the right sentiment but not the right approach,because they assume you have quite distinguishably different userarchetypes. In this case it may be better to adopt a role-based approach, whereby you definedifferent ‘hats’ or roles that a user may take in order to fulfil a kind oftask … Read more
All of the following resources came from a discussion list (not my compilation). Apologies to whomever compiled this listing – I’ve forgotten so I can’t give credit…. 🙁 Site Index examples:Good:http://www.peoplesoft.com/corp/en/indices/site_index.jsphttp://www.w3.org/Help/siteindexhttp://www.montaguelab.com/Public/indexes.htmhttp://www.census.gov/main/www/subjects.htmlhttp://www.consumerreports.org/main/detailv2.jsp?CONTENT<>cnt_id=3171&FOLDER<>folder_id=3167http://www.writersblock.ca/common/index.htm Not so good:http://www.asindexing.org/site/backndx.htmDifferent style / purpose:http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/index/index.html Product Index examples:Good:http://www.ibm.com/products/az/http://www.peoplesoft.com/corp/en/indices/prod_index.jsp Not so good:http://www.3m.com/product/index.jhtml Sitemap examples:Good:http://www.apple.com/find/sitemap.htmlhttp://www.google.com/sitemap.htmlhttp://pages.ebay.com/sitemap.html?ssPageName=h:h:smap:UShttp://www.multimap.com/static/sitemap.htmhttp://www.latrobe.edu.au/sitemap/ Not so good:http://www.novuspetroleum.com/cmsaxs/site/1/5.asp?secID=18http://www.miami.muohio.edu/sitemap/ Bad:http://www.chaminade.edu/sitemap/content/sitemap.html (bad visualrepresentation)http://www.chaminade.edu/sitemap/index.php (not much better – … Read more
http://www.aussi.org/indexer.htmhttp://www.asindexing.org/site/backndx.htmhttp://www.sun.com/siteindex/http://my.webmd.com/medical_information/condition_centers/default.htmhttp://www.adobe.com/products/main.htmlhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/home/all-stores.html/104-3468701-8195133http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/508510/104-3468701-8195133
The Disability Rights Commission (DRC) in Great Britain just released an in-depth study on the accessibility of 1000 websites, with recommendations to improve the W3C WAI guidelines on accessibility. Thanks to Jim on the SIGIA-L listserv for finding this. http://www.drc-gb.org/publicationsandreports/report.asp For a response from the WAI read on: http://www.w3.org/2004/04/wai-drc-statement.html
I am planning a trip with the family to Lake George in August and getting sidetracked by dreams of Montreal, Quebec City, Montana, skiing. Why must we have to plan so far in advance? No availability. We are definitely available the week you want, except were fully booked on Tuesday night, but we can accommodate … Read more
I recently wrote in my blog welcome message about a book project on the use of mapping technology in 9/11 rescue & recovery efforts. I’m moving this off the welcome message because I am going to start to write it. There are a lot of great resources on the mapping efforts at Pier 92 in … Read more
