FinanMart.com - IT News (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
InformationWeek Daily - Wednesday, Sep 17, 2008 Web 2.0 Discussion: Do Communities Need Active Management? Social Web design expert Joshua Porter asserted in a Web 2.0 Expo session on Designing for Community that companies must appoint a manager to actively run their community efforts. This individual, according to Porter, plays a critical role in managing the discussion, applying
Stowe Boyd's (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
I just got back from my first dConstruct, a yearly conference in Brighton, focussed this year on designing the social web. With speakers such as Steven Johnson, Joshua Porter, the Matts Biddulph & Jones and others, it was as interesting...
Tom Hume (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
dConstruct 2008: Joshua Porter, Leveraging Cognitive Bias in Social Design Web design is now about psychology; web designers need to learn about it to create decent experiences. "Bandwagon effect": people often do and believe things because many other people do...
Andy Budd::Blogography (Free subscription) | 24/06/2008
Just a quick note that tickets for dConstruct 2008 went on sale at 11am BST this morning. It’s now 2:30pm and we’ve got around 135 tickets left. We’ve got some great people like Steven Johnson , Daniel Burka and Joshua Porter speaking this year, so it should be a lot of fun. So if you want to come along I recommend popping along now to secure your ticket .
ext337 (Free subscription) | 13/06/2008
Via Learning 2.0: The Threat (and promise) of Social Interaction I found Minds on Fire by John Seely Brown. Joshua Porter says, of Brown’s piece: So the shift to public display, a shift to expected social interaction, changed the way the students learned and the effort they put into their education. If that'??s not an incentive to experiment with and use social software I don'??t know what is. Social...
Robin Good (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
What is social design? What are the traits that make designing for the social interaction different from other forms of design? What are the end results that one wants to achieve by using a social design approach and methodology? Photo credit: Joshua Porter Joshua Porter , social media analyst and web designer, has just published a book called " Designing for the Social Web " in which he argues that...
The Next Web (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Every month, The Next Web Blog picks three relevant books for you to read. The teasers are short, the pro’s why to read are relevant. This month we’re discussing Groundswell by Charlene Li, Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide by Amy Shuen, and Designing for the Social Web by Joshua Porter. Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed [...]
Law Blog Metrics (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Designing for the Social Web by Joshua Porter Price: $40.00 Paperback: 192 pages Publisher: New Riders Press; 1 edition (May 4, 2008) ISBN-10: 0321534921 ISBN-13: 978-0321534927 Description: No matter what type of web site or application you’re building, social interaction...
MIT Advertising Lab (Free subscription) | 17/05/2008
Found a few fun charts from the early days of television on tvhistory.tv. (Also see an earlier post on TV viewing stats from 1957 to 2007.) ---------------- New release: Designing for the Social Web by Joshua Porter, the author of the excellent Bocardo.com blog. Comes out May 4; $26.40. Pre-order now .
MIT Advertising Lab (Free subscription) | 17/05/2008
" Fisheye Quake is a version of quake (software rendering) that allows you to play in ANY fov [field of vision], i.e. 10 to 360 and over." ---------------- New release: Designing for the Social Web by Joshua Porter, the author of the excellent Bocardo.com blog. Comes out May 4; $26.40. Pre-order now .
MIT Advertising Lab (Free subscription) | 14/05/2008
AP : "Honda's ASIMO robot conducts the Detroit Symphony Orchestra as it performs 'Impossible Dream' during a concert in Detroit, Tuesday, May 13, 2008." Watch video (if you can get it to play past the pre-roll). ---------------- New release: Designing for the Social Web by Joshua Porter, the author of the excellent Bocardo.com blog. Comes out May 4; $26.40. Pre-order now .
Seeds of Growth (Free subscription) | 04/05/2008
Joshua Porter , a user interface designer, wonders whether simplicity is a bad design goal, and expresses his ideas in a thoughtful post. Most designers place simplicity above all else. We value simple things because they do all the things we need easily and none of the things we don't. Simplicity is harmonious. Even Leonardo Da Vinci said “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” This is one of...
Portals and KM (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
Joshua Porter recently wrote an interesting post, "Why people don't trust “bloggers” in response to Jeremiah Owyang who claims that people don't trust bloggers. As Joshua wrote that Jeremiah based his observations on three studies by respected marketing research companies:...
moraaz.org - feed all tech! (Free subscription) | 15/04/2008
Molly Holzschlag, Garr Reynolds, Joshua Porter, Penny McIntire, Sandra Niehaus, Robert Hoekman, Jr., Steve Krug and the list goes on! Meet them in Nashville, Tennessee on June 10 -13, 2008.
Webware.com (Free subscription) | 25/03/2008
I'm here at the SNAP Summit in San Francisco. Most of the people in the overflow crowd are trying to figure out how to make their sites more social -- how to tap into the viral effect that's busted companies like RockYou and Slide into the big leagues. Joshua Porter, who runs Bokardo Design , launched the day by offering up five principles for effective social design. The undercurrent of his talk:...
