Read an interesting tidbit in cairril.com’s Sparks newsletter, which references a Post-it(R) Note Persuasion: A Sticky Influence study [pdf file] at Social Science Research Network. Sending out a survey or business solicitation letter? Research shows that including a yellow sticky note with what looks like a personal greeting increases response rates. And it’s not enough … Read more
Since taking a class that discussed Edward Tufte‘s work, I’ve been fascinated by turning information into visual data. His site contains many examples that you could easily spend hours on the site. I have. Plus, I spent several days browsing sites with articles, resources, and examples of infovis (information visualization) in action. It’s not just … Read more
Pro Blog Design offers five great tips for working with a designer [via Freelance Folder]. In reading the comments, I am not surprised to see that the client not knowing what he wants as one of the designer’s biggest frustrations. I plead guilty. Unlike the comment, however, I spend a lot of time online and … Read more
Darren Rowse rustled up $54,000 worth of prizes in honor of ProBlogger’s birthday. He’s giving away two 20″ LG USB monitors from DisplayLink in exchange for this message. Back to you, Darren.
I received an .odt file for posting on an organization’s Web site. Open Office‘s word processor uses this file format. I didn’t want to download and install Open Office even though it cost nothing. And going back to the sender wasn’t a good idea because she would either not know how to convert it or … Read more
Priscilla Palmer’s Personal Development List contains a long list of blogs worth reading that touch on personal development. The extensive list already contains the blogs I enjoy (Adversity University, Today Is That Day, and Lifehack). Here are a couple more to add: Jenna Glatzer, Christina Katz, and Dawn Goldberg. They are all talented writers who … Read more
Every new release of an application adds more features, but not always for the better. Get ten tips for getting feature frenzy under control. In writing an article about social network sites, I looked at over two dozen sites like MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Sermo, TravBuddy, MyCreativeCommunity. Wikipedia provides a list of many social networking … Read more
It doesn’t matter how long the Internet has been around anymore… the argument of what makes a good link continues. Often when I write a blog post and want to reference another blog, site, resource… sometimes, I struggle to figure out what text to use as the link and what it should say. Plus, I … Read more
Smashing Magazine provided a wealth of expert tips, advice and suggestions in its popular and valuable 35 designers x 5 questions article. To celebrate its one year anniversary, the magazine found more experts and asked new questions. The result is 50 designers x 6 questions, which contains over 170 new tips answering the following six … Read more
Marcia Yudkin’s Marketing Minute newsletter references Jakob Nielsen’s research that says shoppers leave 10 percent of the time because the site didn’t provide enough information. She discusses how some sites don’t make it clear whether the product is a CD, book or download. Funny thing is that I experienced this recently. I was looking up … Read more