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Each week I capture, mark, and comment on blog posts and news articles around the internet. This is a short-list of three links that I think others will find valuable for their thought lives.
Emerson College student paper completes a fully responsive, mobile-friendly redesign by Andrew Phelps from Nieman Journalism Lab. A great story of a student run newspaper using some technology updates to get closer to their readers. Their site, the Berkeley Beacon, now adjusts the display based on the type of device the reader is using. So if you are using a mobile or tablet device, the screen dimensions will adjust accordingly so that you don’t have …Continue reading >>
April 18th, 2012 | | Tags: blogging, writingIf my high school English teacher could see me now… English was not my favorite subject in high school or undergraduate college. In fact, I can say it was probably at the bottom of the list. I really didn’t enjoy writing in those days. It was forced and I felt like so much of a grade was subjective based on preferences of the teacher.
So I gravitated to math and science classes. My favorite class my senior year in high school was Calculus. When I went to college I studied Computer Science and learned the basics of computer programming. So it’s probably no surprise that I got a C in …Continue reading >>
How do you construct your email signature? Is it a personal creation or a variation of a template you found? With the volume of emails sent each day and importance of email for business communication the email signature is definitely an important mark in our digital lives. You might be surprised to know there is even a Wikipedia entry on email signature blocks.
Kate Neville of Smashing Magazine gives a good interpretation of the art and science of email signatures. The foundational advice in her post is to be concise with the email signature. Keep it simple and stick to main purpose.
I see three areas of focus with email …Continue reading >>
Each week I capture, mark, and comment on blog posts and news articles around the internet. This is a short-list of three links that I think others will find valuable for their thought lives.
In New Office Designs, Room to Roam and to Think by Lawrence W. Cheek from the New York Times. I find that changing scenery helps me to think and work better so I was drawn to this article on work spaces. I’m glad to home office once a week but I wish my regular work office arrangement had more variation. Check out the designs in the article. What do you call a Marketing Technologist by …Continue reading >>
I occasionally cover topics related to the financial services industry because my primary employment serves financial institution clients. There is a proposed bill in Congress right now that caught my attention for several reasons: consumer advocacy, government regulation of the banking industry, and implications in the marketing technology space.
A brief recap. The Freedom and Mobility in Consumer Banking Act, H.R. 3077, was introduced by Rep. Bradley Miller [D-NC13] on October 3, 2011. The purpose of the act is to make it easier for consumers to close an account with one financial institution and move to another financial institution. The legislation is supposed to increase competition between banks and provide …Continue reading >>
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