7 Future trends in Mobile Development - Webstock 2011alexbrie
7 Future trends in Mobile Development - Webstock 2011, Bucharest, Romania
A brief presentation by Alexandru Brie, CEO of Cognitive Bits Software, about 7 future trends for the next couple of years of mobile development.
New Brief for Design—Manoeuvering the Behavioural Iceberglodaya
Increasingly, designers are being asked to apply their skills and talents to achieve a 'behaviour-change' objective. Why is this happening? What do designers know and do that makes them specially competent for such tasks? This presentation aims at holding up a mirror to practitioners and hopefully showing them a way ahead to equip themselves even better for next-generation challenges.
Please do see the NOTES section for my accompanying commentary.
"OK, This is Just Too Weird": Identifying Outreach Opportunites in FacebookElizabeth Edwards
The tremendous popularity of social networking sites like Facebook presents libraries with unique opportunities for reaching students. What many organizations fail to recognize, however, is that Facebook is perceived by its users as a primarily social space, and that the presence of professors, librarians, or parents can be intrusive, unwelcome, or just plain "weird" for the very students they're trying to reach. The George Washington University's Gelman Library decided to take a step back and ask a critical question: what do our students want? How do our students really use Facebook, and what part can the library play in this social environment? This presentation will offer an overview of this study and its findings in light of contemporary thinking and practices among librarians.
7 Future trends in Mobile Development - Webstock 2011alexbrie
7 Future trends in Mobile Development - Webstock 2011, Bucharest, Romania
A brief presentation by Alexandru Brie, CEO of Cognitive Bits Software, about 7 future trends for the next couple of years of mobile development.
New Brief for Design—Manoeuvering the Behavioural Iceberglodaya
Increasingly, designers are being asked to apply their skills and talents to achieve a 'behaviour-change' objective. Why is this happening? What do designers know and do that makes them specially competent for such tasks? This presentation aims at holding up a mirror to practitioners and hopefully showing them a way ahead to equip themselves even better for next-generation challenges.
Please do see the NOTES section for my accompanying commentary.
"OK, This is Just Too Weird": Identifying Outreach Opportunites in FacebookElizabeth Edwards
The tremendous popularity of social networking sites like Facebook presents libraries with unique opportunities for reaching students. What many organizations fail to recognize, however, is that Facebook is perceived by its users as a primarily social space, and that the presence of professors, librarians, or parents can be intrusive, unwelcome, or just plain "weird" for the very students they're trying to reach. The George Washington University's Gelman Library decided to take a step back and ask a critical question: what do our students want? How do our students really use Facebook, and what part can the library play in this social environment? This presentation will offer an overview of this study and its findings in light of contemporary thinking and practices among librarians.