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Flashback: That Time I Was an Online News Anchor (Way Before YouTube)
Warning: Flashback moment ahead I used to produce (and read!) online news when I worked for a tiny little consulting firm in 1998-1999. We were a video conferencing consulting firm, which means I spent most of my time learning video…
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The Google Glass “Failure”: Why Words Are Important in Innovation
By Danlev (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], Wikimedia Commons By now, you’ve probably heard that Google has shut down the Google Glass Explorer program. And chances are, you’re hearing people describe it as a failure. This is why we can’t…
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Beyond “Pages”: Is It Time To Rethink Our Mental Model of the Web?
One guarantee of working on the web is that you will inevitably be in a conversation about a web site and people will talk about “web pages.” Which makes sense: the Web has been around for a couple of decades…
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Accessibility In Social Media: 15 + 4 Things You Can Do (Full Presentation Notes)
Credit: The people from the Tango! project, via Wikimedia Commons Last week, I presented at Public Sector Social Media, a conference directed to Government employees and consultants whose work touches on the social media-sphere. I gave a talk on Social…
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The 4 Things I Learned About Technology Adoption by Being an Early Blogger
Spydergrrl on the Web turned 6 last week. This hasn’t been my only blog, but it is the one with the most staying power. As I was approaching this anniversary, I did a bit of reflection and realized that the…
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The ONLY Way To Get Girls into STEM (Boys Too!)
Three times in one weekend, I was asked if I was involved in female-oriented and girl-specific tech programs. And it bugged the hell out of me. I love any initiative that has the potential to interest people in science, technology,…
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What the %$*& is UX? (video)
I’ve got UX (user experience) on the brain for a whole lot of reasons: first of all, I’m doing a whole lot of it at work (in fact, I’m pretty sure that I might get banned from saying “personas” any…
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Dispelling The Myth of “Fake Geek Girls”
Each and every one of us has at some time felt impostor syndrome (i.e. that feeling that you don’t belong and someone will find you out eventually). Being a nerd, it’s been a recurring theme throughout my life, but no…
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How To Live-Tweet an Event: Part 5 – Outcomes and Measurement
This is part 5 in an ongoing series on Live-Tweeting Events. Check out Part 4 – Showtime!. Or see the bottom of this post for the full 5-part series. Your event is over. First of all, CONGRATULATIONS! You did it! As…
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