Web Works

I’m excited to begin writing about the creation of our new website, and the implementation of our content management system. I plan to use this blog to help keep everyone up to date on the status of the web team as we move forward, as well as to write some articles on our process and [...]

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To insert an image, first post the image you want to insert to the server of your choice. I recommend Flickr (they do a lot of the work for you, providing resized images and embed code). Piccassa is good too. Most any online photo-sharing service is fine. All you ultimately need is the URL of [...]

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When considering your online community, it helps to think of your users in terms of types of participants.

Social networks often have social hierarchies where members play different roles:

Some seek information
Some prefer to pass info along
Some are merely spectators
Others take the lead role in determining what the group will do

Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff of Forrester [...]

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Dorothy Brady sent me this pic. Notice the Twitter message in bold, red…I guess they don’t want anyone to know if they have a fire.

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