Intranet personalisation: good or bad? By Nic Price on 2 October 2007 — 1 min read If you have web apps like travel booking systems or services like discussion forums running on your intranet you already have personalisation. Whether it’s any good is down to how well it’s designed and presented and how it feels to use. For company intranet homepages I don’t think there’s any question that personalisation will become... More
Help! I’m starting to think in status updates By Nic Price on 1 October 2007 — 1 min read On my Sunday run yesterday morning I suddenly caught myself turning everything I was doing in to Facebook status updates. If you haven’t been on Facebook, status updates let you tell people in your group of friends or networks whatever you want in little SMS type messages which then appear on their Facebook pages next... More
Share your thoughts By Nic Price on 27 September 2007 — 1 min read Share your thoughts Originally uploaded by Beatnic. More
Automatic accents By Nic Price on 24 September 2007 — 1 min read Do you have a lift at work? Does it have a male or female voice? Who decided that? Does a lift in Belfast have a different accent to a lift in Manchester, Falmouth or Glasgow? Should the automated announcements on trains change accent depending on which part of the country you’re in? More
Workshop links By Nic Price on 7 September 2007 — 1 min read Today I attended a very informative workshop run by Tira Shubart and Jasmine Birtles. Below are a few links to some of the websites that were discussed: Business cards: gapingvoid: “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards” MOO (you can use your Flickr photographs on your cards) Financial advice: Jasmine’s website Moneymagpie.com Quickly set... More
From edublogs: Six points for organisations entering the Live Web By Nic Price on 6 September 2007 — 1 min read edublogs: Six points for organisations entering the Live Web. Interesting post by Ewan McIntosh. Via Nick Reynolds at work. More
Farcebook By Nic Price on 30 August 2007 — 1 min read Facebook seems to be becoming a necessary evil. I’ve never felt particularly comfortable about it, but I do have an account and I do use it from time to time. Somewhat worryingly found out today (thanks Chris T) that unless you change your privacy settings anyone in your network can see all your information as... More
Count your opinions By Nic Price on 30 August 2007 — 1 min read Count your opinions Originally uploaded by Beatnic. So I thought I’d add my input to the survey being run by London Underground on personal safety at Elephant & Castle tube station. Unfortunately I didn’t understand how to use this “Opinionmeter” until I’d already started using it – at which point I had already mistakenly answered... More
The 5.75 Questions You’ve Been Avoiding – by Michael Bungay Stanier By Nic Price on 29 August 2007 — 1 min read Five minute animation backed by funky bass asking five and three quarter big questions… More
Oxford Internet Survey 2007 By Nic Price on 31 July 2007 — 1 min read I went to the launch of the Oxford Internet Survey last week at the House of Commons and haven’t had a chance to write it up. Thankfully BBC News has picked up on the main points on its website. A couple of things really stood out for me… 5% of people in the UK who... More