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Posts Tagged ‘Social Media’

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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Social media and social networking sites offer new opportunities for organizations to publish content and interact with their customers. So just what the heck is Facebook? Why would I upload video to YouTube? Who stole the “e” from Flickr? Answers to these questions and more in this post. (more…)

The ‘Broken Window’ principle and Web design

Monday, November 27th, 2006

I haven’t posted in awhile, and in the spirit of today’s link, I’m just going to post on something.

Here’s a interesting 37signals article on building and maintaining momentum on your Web site (amongst other things). Sometimes, when you don’t know what to do, work on the things that are easy to fix. Clean up the dusty corners of your site. Go ahead and fix that weird line break. Find out why that photo looks a tad wonky.

Now, whether or not you think that this approach is what helped clean up New York City is a whole other discussion. Bottom line, make it look like someone cares.

User attention span? 4 seconds.

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

That’s it. That’s how fast your page needs to load before someone gives up and moves on.

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