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My five minute talk on analogy at UX Bristol

At the end of the excellent UX Bristol back in July, a few of us gave 5 minute talks. These talks are now available to watch online. I talked about how – when I was running the intranet at the … Continue reading

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Enterprising times – a case for search best bets

Reading the e-Consultancy interview with Lou Rosenfeld on the importance of site search analytics, I was reminded of when I was product manager of intranet (or enterprise) search at the BBC. It was back in 2002. People complained that search … Continue reading

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The new look BBC homepage and Gestalt

Generally I like the new look BBC homepage which officially went live last week after a couple of months in “beta”. It’s got most of what I want: news, weather, listings – the iplayer link could be more visible. Redesigns … Continue reading

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Blog Readability Test

I’ve just been having a bit of fun with this… The Blog Readability Test. What level of education is required to understand your blog? – as seen on David Cushman’s site. Apparently you require a “high school” education to read … Continue reading

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One to watch, as it were… BBC Internet Blog

[...] I think we have been slow to embrace blogs as a way of discussing our strategy and direction. This often leads to the debate happening elsewhere, based often on only half the information, and without our being able fully … Continue reading

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We won an award :)

Sarah, Andy and I picked up the Best Intranet Award for Best Content, awarded to the BBC for it’s intranet Gateway which we all work on. Pictured with Paul Miller, Chairman of the Intranet Benchmarking Forum.

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Goodnig8t

Blogging is changing and challenging journalism. It changed and challenged mine even though I was doing the blogging. It is a way to focus the collective intelligence of the audience onto the facts and arguments. Moblogging from a single device … Continue reading

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