Is it time for change to change? By Nic Price on 8 February 2006 — 1 min read Ant sums it up nicely With new and astute technical leadership, the company has begun the steady march to rebuild the infrastructure – readying it for faster development. But, culture is slower to change than code. We still tend to operate with the same deliberate, beaurocratic attitude. Change is hard for any company and it... More
Nielsen announces his “10 best intranets of 2006” By Nic Price on 23 January 2006 — 1 min read And they are: Allianz Australia Insurance, Australia ALTANA Pharma AG, Germany Bank of Ireland Group, Ireland Capital One, USA IBM, USA Merrill Lynch, USA METRO Group, Germany O2, UK Staples, USA Vodafone, UK Summary: This year, we saw increased use of multimedia, e-learning, internal blogs, and mobile access. Winning companies also encouraged consistent design by... More
The intranet By Nic Price on 23 January 2006 — 1 min read pervasive adj 1: spread throughout; “a pervasive anxiety overshadows the triumphs of individuals” [syn: pervading] 2: spreading throughout; “armed with permeative irony…he punctures affectations”; “the pervasive odor of garlic”; “an error is pervasive if it is material to more than one conclusion” [syn: permeant, permeating, permeative] fabric n 1: artifact made by weaving or felting... More
Web-based RSS aggregators for intranets By Nic Price on 13 January 2006 — 1 min read Just wondering… does anyone anywhere know of a webserver-based RSS aggregator that will run on an intranet? Commercial, open-source, it doesn’t matter at the moment, I’m just interested to know what’s available. It would help people share both internal and external feeds (subscription lists). I’ve searched high and low but so far to no avail.... More
Tips for managing email By Nic Price on 10 November 2005 — 1 min read Here’s something that I wrote back in February and have been meaning to put in a post on here for ages… There are quite a few good guides to managing email. The latest one I’ve read is this one by Mark Hurst who runs a consultancy in New York. You don’t have to read all... More
Public service remixing By Nic Price on 31 October 2005 — 1 min read I’m with Euan on Annotatable Audio, it’s a stunning thing. And then this clever archive thingamijig comes along. And I’m reminded why I like working for the BBC. More
Work-life blur By Nic Price on 4 July 2005 — 1 min read 3 things that cross over between my work and my life: A desire to understand how things work. (What goes on under the bonnet? What do they feel like to use? What’s the story behind the design?) Using technology to help connect people with each other and with information My love of language(s) Not to... More
Google map pins – joining the dots By Nic Price on 30 June 2005 — 1 min read Several times recently I’ve been describing walks and runs to people and thought wouldn’t it be great to be able to plot them out on the amazing Google maps service. It already does a great job with routes from A to B (say East Dulwich to Marylebone High Street – my current daily bicycle commute).... More
What’s in a wiki? By Nic Price on 20 May 2005 — 1 min read The life of a wikipedia page on the subject of the Heavy Metal Umlaut, brilliantly captured and explained in a screencast (animation of screens with voice-over commentary). Via: podbat See also: wikipedia More
You are here By Nic Price on 11 May 2005 — 1 min read Yes, but how did I get here? Yesterday I went to the Design Museum in London with some friends from work to see the design of information exhibition “YOU ARE HERE” (now in its last week). It was full of amazing examples of how we convey complex information through models, signs and symbols, including navigation... More