Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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CPD23 Thing 1: What I hope to get out of the programme
I have decided to take part in CPD23 for a number of reasons, but the main one is that I hope it will provide me with an incentive to start blogging. Although I have been toying with the idea of setting up a blog for personal and professional development for a while, I always ended…
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Internet Librarian International review
I was at Internet Librarian International last week and now that the dust has settled and I have had time to tidy up my notes and reflect on them, I thought it would be a good idea to jot down my impressions of the event. It was my first ILI and I found it very…
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Usability Testing Demystified
A useful refresher on how and, more importantly, why to do usability testing from A List Apart. A few lines that jumped up: Focusing on the behavior you’re interested in observing is easier than trying to select for market segmentation or demographics. Though only one person from the team moderates, as many people from the team…
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Guide to Researching Audiences
The Strategic Content Alliance have published this Guide to Researching Audiences. Most of the content echoes user centred design principles, but it’s good to see it in an information provision context. There is also a concise edition of the above document, for when you are in a hurry! Further information on the SCA blog.
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Using information synthesis methods to re-write a Wikipedia article
In this post I’m going to discuss the process of improving, extending and editing a Wikipedia article by applying information synthesis methods. I did this work as part of an assignment for my MSc in Information Management. I chose the Wikipedia page on ‘information pollution’ because the original article presented a number of important problems: The…
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