Interesting Reading: 11/6
The World's First Crowdsourced Creative Agency
http://designmind.frogdesign.com/blog/the-world039s-first-crowdsourced-creative-agency.html
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kit-eaton/technomix/googles-dashboard-window-your-google-soul?partner=rss“"Have you ever wondered what data is stored with your Google Account?" Google asks, and privacy advocates and techy-minded people will quickly answer "YES!" Now Google's Dashboard lets you see, but not delete, what's stored about you in Google's vault of mysteries.”--------
Agile User Experience Projects
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/agile-user-experience.html“Last year, we conducted a study of best practices in integrating usability methods with Agile development projects.
Usually, it's not worth studying the same problem again just a year later since user behavior doesn't change much. But this particular project didn't concern user behaviors, but rather the best way to run Agile projects to ensure usability.
Because this is still a new field, we decided to supplement last year's research with a new round of more detailed studies focused on additional organizations that have had more time to discover better ways to manage Agile user experience (UX).”--------
New project: The Carbon Economy
http://www.xplane.com/xblog/2009/11/05/new-project-the-carbon-economy/
“For the second time in recent months XPLANE has partnered with The Economist to create a compelling video on a topic of global importance. After working together on “Did You Know? 4.0”, The Economist enlisted XPLANE’s visual communication expertise to develop “The Carbon Economy” about the growing importance of climate change and green technologies and solutions.”--------Digital World Explorer
http://www.good.is/post/digital-world-explorer/“The digital ethnographer Michael Wesch on the dark side of social media, what we learned from Iran, and why the future of the web depends on human interests—not market interests.”--------
Skills of a Successful Project Manager
http://pmtips.net/skills-successful-project-manager/“In his book, “The Little Black Book of Project Management,” Michael Thomsett identifies his version of the skillset of a successful project manager. I’m providing it here to give you yet another take on some of the key characteristics and capabilities that go into being able to effectively manage an engagement and a team of highly skilled resources.Mr. Thomsett’s version comes mainly from the viewpoint of a department manager being thrown into the project management role, so understand that this is assuming an experienced manager is handling the engagement, but not one well-versed in project management.”--------App of the Week: Visual Relationship Mapping 2.0
http://blogs.salesforce.com/the_appexchange_blog/2009/11/app-of-the-week-visual-relationship-mapping-20.html“This week's app of the week is Visual Relationship Mapping 2.0 from Business Endurance Solutions.
Visual Relationship Mapping allows you to easily create a visual representation of how your contacts and accounts are related to each other within Salesforce CRM: “--------Two Obituaries from the New York TimesClaude Lévi-Strauss, 100, Dies; Altered Western Views of the ‘Primitive’
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/europe/04levistrauss.html?_r=1Roy DeCarava, Pioneering Photographer, Dies at 89
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/roy-decarava-pioneering-photographer-dies-at-89/?scp=1&sq=Roy%20DeCarva&st=cse
