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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 >>
We are fascinated with history. Maybe History wasn’t your favorite subject in school, but I suspect that certain aspects of history get your attention now. There’s the History Channel on cable television with popular shows like Pawn Stars, American Pickers, and American Restoration. In fact Pawn Stars scores at the top of some cable TV ratings for certain age groups. There are books, documentaries, investigative reporting, etc. that all touch-on our fascination with history.
Historical information appeals to us because it’s about about how people and objects interacted to create a moment in time. They create a story and a connection for us to relate. We say life is all …Continue reading >>
Should we be overwhelmed with our social media life? Quite a few people think so. A quick search on “social media overload” returns several articles and posts on how to avoid social media burnout. There are even self-help books out to help us manage information overload from social media sites..
But the question is not so much about “social media” as it is about the volume of information within it.
How did we get here? In the 90s, the internet became more accessible and brought us connectivity to a collection of places (web sites) for information share. Browsers became a tool for turning computer code into graphical interfaces that we …Continue reading >>
A friend and colleague Jim Marous shared an article from American Banker on Googe+ entitled Banks Underuse Mobile for Communication. The article discusses challenges that financial institutions have with communicating with their customers through mobile devices. While mobile device applications and mobile optimized sites are becoming more common, and expected by account holders, financial institutions are not using the mobile channel for proactive communication. Kael Kelly, senior director at Varolii is quoted in the article “Banks don’t have the data that they need. A lot of the phone number data doesn’t easily distinguish between a mobile number and a land-line.”
So the idea that banks don’t know what data they …Continue reading >>
Each week I capture, mark, and comment on blog posts and news articles around the internet. This is short list of three links that I think others will find valuable for their thought lives.
The Book Every Analytics Professional Must Read by Douglas Karr at Marketing Tech Blog. This post hit me in two my passion zones of baseball and internet analytics. I previously saw Moneyball as well and like the parallels Karr draws towards measurement of what really matters for your eCommerce store. Moneyball is on my “to read list”. 6 Tips for Improving Twitter Link Click Through Rate by Linda Bustos at GetElastic. I like this examination …Continue reading >>
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