http://www.webofimpact.com Web Audits and Reviews, Internet Marketing, Design Thinking, Websites as Strategic Assets, Web 2.0, Community Building, Design and Development Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:20:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was intruiged by a recent post by Jeremiah at the Web-Strategist.com about how the search box in a browser is circumventing the address field. I read this after sitting with a client today and discussing their mamoth 3.2 million page website. Third client actually, the first one had 100,000 ... http://www.webofimpact.com/2008/09/04/information-architecture-copy-the-organizational-structure-or-follow-the-user-experience-not-that-easy/ Here's a great quote that came to me from a GLG newsletter: In less than 5,000 days, the Web has gone from the linking of a few computers in a lab to satellite images of the earth at our fingertips. Today, the Web has 100 billion clicks and 55 trillion links ... http://www.webofimpact.com/2008/08/22/the-web-in-the-first-5000-days/ Intranets, which  are basically employee-only websites, can be a key utility in how today’s knowledge workers operate. Not very many companies use Intranets well. Some have integrated basic features and applications such as boardroom booking and connecting to HR tools (vacation requests, benefits, etc), fewer have forums and surveys for ... http://www.webofimpact.com/2008/06/11/intranet-solutions-using-web-20-technology/ My brother, a friend and I started a bamboo t-shirt company recently as a hobby. The premise is simple - each t-shirt comes with "a month of guilt free (carbon-free!) living" in the form of carbon off-sets (Carbon Karma!) financed through the profits of the t-shirt. The site is still ... http://www.webofimpact.com/2008/05/26/mymadmonkeycom-my-environmental-play-for-guilt-free-living/ This was a talk given by Clay Shirky at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco (April 2008). I was in the audience, it was brilliant. Basically it describes how gin lubricated humanity's transition from 7-day a week work-survival mode into the 5-day week industrial revolution. Now that people had ... http://www.webofimpact.com/2008/04/30/desperate-housewives-essentially-functioned-as-a-kind-of-cognitive-heat-sink-dissipating-thinking-that-might-otherwise-have-built-up-and-caused-society-to-overheat/ Here is my third proposal that went in to speak at the Web 2.0 NY conference taking place in Sept-08. What do you think? Which of the last three do you think will draw the most interest? (see the last two posts for the other proposals) ——————————————————————————————————— What do a 19th century Italian ... http://www.webofimpact.com/2008/04/10/how-to-use-the-success-secrets-of-the-web-20-economy-for-your-organization/ Here is my second proposal that went in to speak at the Web 2.0 NY conference taking place in Sept-08. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Mash-Up Web Design and Development There is no point in starting from scratch anymore. This talk will show you how to create a web architecture for your organization that takes advantage ... http://www.webofimpact.com/2008/04/05/do-you-want-a-powerful-scalable-market-driven-lost-cost-enterprise-class-website/ Here is my first proposal that went in to speak at the Web 2.0 NY conference taking place in Sept-08. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- People are Googling your organization and keywords related to what you do. Are they finding you? Once they find you, they Google you to learn more about you from other sources. ... http://www.webofimpact.com/2008/04/03/dominate-google-search-results-and-become-the-authority-for-your-subject-online-%e2%80%93-web-20-marketing-tactics-for-brave-souls-only/ Blog writing will be a priority soon. It's been 18-20 hour days for several weeks now, but the work load is tapering. I did make it a priority last night for an hour between the web audit and e-marketing plan due last night and a database of members missing critical information ... http://www.webofimpact.com/2008/04/01/20-hour-days-slowing-blog-writing-back-soon/ So I recently returned from a vacation near Cancun, Mexico. First let me say, that a week off sucks. "Wow Bruce you're finally starting to relax!" - that was quoted to me on the day before we left! Ack. You need a week to unwind and at least another week ... http://www.webofimpact.com/2008/02/10/how-does-the-cost-of-a-vacation-in-mexico-relate-to-web-usability/