alexblack
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Your goals for 2010 seem like common sense to me. Why would you connect with someone on Facebook or LinkedIn you don't even know? I even restrict LinkedIn a bit further, only connecting with people I have (or want to have) some sort of relationship with.
- Alex
16 years ago @ Mark Evans - 2010: The Year of Qual... · 0 replies · +1 points
Twitter is obviously a bit different, you only have control of one half of the equation :) On twitter I seem to have two groups of people I follow, those I know, and those I have some interest in following but don't know.
- Alex
16 years ago @ Buzz Pressure - Focus Groups, Meh · 0 replies · +1 points
This reminds me of a similar situation we experienced at Booksoft years ago. We'd developed a speakers-corner type video kiosk system for high school students to use to collect video messages for the yearbook, using a laptop and camcorder etc. I designed us a fancy looking wizard for people to use to collect a person's name and grade and photo. Phil, our lead developer at the time told me this was not a very usable interface, but I was in love with wizards...
One day we visited a school using the system, and within 5 minutes I was embarrassed about how slow and hard to use the system was... I felt pain for the guy running the system, having to keep hitting next, noticing the student giving the information out of order, and our rigid software making things difficult.
We wrote some new code as soon as we were back at the office. We should have got in front of people much sooner!