On May 16th, 2008 I went over to Lausanne for Going Solo, conference about being a freelance in this networked world of ours. Stephanie did an amazing job of pulling together a great group of speakers, and I was honoured to be one of them. In a departure to my normal topics of conversation, I discussed techniques for ensuring that your work doesn’t take over your life when you go freelance. I’ll be reprising the same talk at Going Solo Leeds.
Suw Charman-Anderson - distributing the future more evenly
Strange Attractor- Join me on Ada Lovelace DayI’ve mainly stayed away from the discussion of gender issues in technology. I didn’t think that I had any real expertise to share. But over the last six months, after many conversations, it has become clear that many of my female friends in tech really do feel disempowered. They feel invisible, lacking in confidence, and [...]
- A new web discipline: Social Functionality DesignI’ve been thinking a lot recently about what makes a website social, and how different types of social functionality could fit together to create a satisfying experience for the people who use the website. Partly this is because I’m working closely with a Canadian publishing start-up called Book Oven to do just that - design [...]
- 20 signs you don’t want that internal social media projectI just nearly burst my appendix laughing at Chris Applegate’s 20 signs you don’t want that social media project. I am thus inspired to write my own list of tips that, perhaps, one doesn’t really want that internal social media project after all. Client wants to code their own blog/wiki software because “we want total control”. Client [...]
- Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the most verbose of all?It’s coming up to Thanksgiving here in the US, and a thin layer of snow still sparkles on the ground in the winter sun. On Friday, (that’s the day after Thanksgiving for any of you not steeped in American tradition) we shall drive to Milwaukee for a spot of Christmas shopping and, in the case [...]
- New RSS feedsI’m not sure how long they’ve been there (Kev and I rely on the Corante team for blog tech development), but I’ve just noticed that Kev and I now have our own RSS feeds! So if you want to follow just one of us, or to have our feeds separate in your RSS reader, you [...]
- Join me on Ada Lovelace Day
- Chocolate and Vodka
- Kits and Mortar
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