Give us the Easy Ask!
Today I want to focus on the easy ask. What can you ask your users to contribute that is easy? It seems obvious, doesn’t it?… Read More »Give us the Easy Ask!
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Game Mechanics and Participation
Let’s start with a stat: A shitload of people are playing games. Ok, it wasn’t a stat, but in 2007 Comscore found that 217 million… Read More »Game Mechanics and Participation
Friendly Tips for Keeping your Contributors
One thing that I constantly hear colleagues in the Open Web community talking about is the lack of participation on the part of the user.… Read More »Friendly Tips for Keeping your Contributors
Webify Me
Short and sweet today. Firefox 6 is out, go download it. And, I webified myself (you can too), and weirdly enough half the images This… Read More »Webify Me
Newsle Pitch
The 2 Minute Pitch The Problem Newsle addresses the problem that people aren’t very curious about what’s going on in the world. They’re curious about… Read More »Newsle Pitch
Feedback Session
Last night I had a Feedback session with my fellow MozNewsLabbers. It was fantastic. They pointed out both the problems that I was already aware… Read More »Feedback Session
Overstimulating a User
Sounds kind of sexy, right? Overstimulating the user? Well, it’s not. It’s not sexy at all, it’ll lead to the systematic exodus from the usage… Read More »Overstimulating a User
Melt My Brain
I’ve been called a “new media expert”, “technologist”, “programmer”, “web guru”, “creative software ninja”. I have a degree in design, but am a self taught… Read More »Melt My Brain
Socializing the News
I spent a part of my Tuesday failing miserably. I had a glimmer of an idea Monday night before I went to bed. I was… Read More »Socializing the News
Using the Web to Fix the World: Waldpark Trachau
So here’s the skinny: Part of the reason we bought the house we bought was because it’s right in the middle of the city of… Read More »Using the Web to Fix the World: Waldpark Trachau