Month: August 2013

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Tips & Tricks: 10 Heuristics for Evaluating Documentation Usability

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Users want useful help content, and in this Summer Rerun, Ena Arel offers 10 heuristics to evaluate documentation usability before product release.

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

Oddly enough, I missed this one the first time around. Ena Arel offers great tips for doing heuristic evaluations of documentation usability here, and it helps with web design heuristics too. She says she based hers on Nielsen and Molich with some tweaks, but I think her tweaks work well here. This reminds me very much of my first grad school project when I learned how to do heuristic evaluations. Great information here!

–techcommgeekmom

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It’s Time to Change Your Outlook on Change

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If you think that change is coming at you faster and faster each day, you’re right. That’s because the three change accelerators of processing power, storage, and bandwidth have reached

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

This is a good article that follows up on some of my observations about the "death of the desktop and gaming as we know it" post I did the other day. 

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Arne Duncan: How Technology Will Revolutionize Testing and Learning: Scientific American

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Greater broadband access will bring the latest digital tools to more teachers and students

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

This article came to me by way of Dr. Bruce Johnson (@drbrucej) on Twitter. It’s a great piece by Arne Duncan, the US Education Secretary, in Scientific American that talks about how technology needs to become more integrated into our educational system and its benefits. A wonderful read–and it’s a plan of action that we should try to embrace and promote!

–techcommgeekmom

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The Skills and Process You Need to Write a Viral Blog Post [infographic]

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Many people fear entering the blogosphere because they don’t know where to start. It’s overwhelming, but the basics of writing are what will be most important to you. The skills and process for…

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

Another great article about blog writing by Darin Hammond. I think these steps and approaches are something that I discovered organically, so I know they work. 

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4 Traditional PC Features Mobile is NOT About

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I have been on vacation for three weeks taking a break visiting my parents and celebrating my son’s 7th birthday. I am back and looking forward to more great mobile conversations. I hope you are do…

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

After dealing with trying to convert my father from Windows XP and Vista to Windows 8 over the last few days, and thinking about how software and video games are purchased now (that’s for another post sometimes soon), I was thinking a lot about the advantages of mobile that RJ points out in this article. The only point he makes that I slightly disagree with is the use of a stylus. I agree that you shouldn’t need a stylus to use mobile, but I like being able to use one if I want to take handwritten notes (sometimes, it’s just faster to jot down ideas). Otherwise, I agree–peripherals, power hungry apps, and an overblown file manager are too much. Definitely steps backwards. 
Read this article!

–techcommgeekmom 

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