One of the most frustrating things I experience on a regular basis is bad website UI. The worst thing about it is that most times, websites do them on purpose to increase click-throughs or drive traffic to their websites. Granted that everyone accepts Why Internet Presence Is Essential For Success In Car Finance, restaurant chain management or even in educational institutes, but that's not to mean that they make the process of reaching a specific page tedious for the user. 1. Paged Lists. I’m ...
Yes, Another iPad Review, But From Someone Who Still PCs Too!
I’ve made no attempt at hiding my love for many of Apple’s products. It’s not easy admitting being an employee at Microsoft. I just refuse to not enjoy and recognize great products even when they come from companies outside the one I work for. I use an iPhone, and the reality is, there is not another phone on the planet that can match the hardware quality, and user experience it delivers. If Microsoft did (or even came close), I’d be all over it. My hope is that Windows Mobile 7 lessens the ...
Back From The Dead: Updates From The Blog Grave
Oh man have I neglected my blog. No excuses really, just so busy with a variety of things, and I haven’t really thought of any topics that inspired me lately. Therefore I’ll use this re-awakening as an opportunity to update all those that care (probably like 2 or 3 readers, of which 1 or 2 are probably bots). New Job Started a new gig back in March. I’m a Senior MVP Lead for Microsoft Office. Fancy way of saying I manage the group of individuals that are professionally ...
9 Ways To Get Yourself Unfollowed On Twitter
Oh the wonders and gloriousness of being followed on Twitter! It’s a tiny gift from the digital world that keeps on giving. An invitation from those that you’ve never met, to share your deepest, darkest secrets and happenings (I know, sentence fragment, but it’s my blog!). But careful Twitter lovers, because violate any of these 9 Twitter laws and you’ll find yourself on an unfollow smackdown! 1. Under Tweet – If you don’t provide any value, what good are you? You’re just Twitter waste and ...
Olive Garden on Facebook: How To Not Use Social Media
UPDATE: It appears this is actually a scam. The official Olive Garden Facebook Fan Page posted such. Obviously Olive Garden is not behind this nor supports it. However rather then pull this blog post, I still think it raises some good points around the importance of social media awareness and protecting your brand. The bigger culprit here is Facebook for making it so easy to facilitate this sort of thing on their platform. I was so irritated by my recent experience with Olive Garden on ...
Dave Barnes & Matt Wertz: Music & Social Media Done Right
One of my favorite things to see regarding social media is when one of the products, services or things I enjoy use it effectively. It’s surprisingly rare, but I’m finding more instances of this happening. None more so then from 2 of my current favorite recording artists, Dave Barnes and Matt Wertz. I actually found both artists by accident. I found Dave’s website a few years ago perusing through a web design gallery, and just happened to take a listen to one of his hit songs “Until You”. ...
