August 2010
Design Your Website with Purpose
Earlier this month, I led a workshop at ProductCamp called Web Portal Triage. The main points we covered in the workshop are summarized below:
What constitutes GREATNESS in website design?
Your answer to this question will say more about what you do, what you value, and what you believe than the reality of how well the website in question will perform. For example, the Webby awards focus on innovative websites with jaw-dropping graphics and effects...a graphic designer's view of greatness.
Other websites are the equivalent of a Swiss army knife - less beautiful perhaps, but built on a solid CMS framework with lots of function, boat-loads of content, potential for expansion, and the security of Fort Knox...this is a web developer's view of greatness.
Master Data Management Q & A
Master Data Management (MDM) is a solution widely employed to improve data quality. The following is a post to the Technical Executives Networking Group (TENG) which may be of interest to those of you concerned with addressing this important topic.