The Point is a simple website with a clear purpose: making things happen. The way they do it is helping users formulate a campaign statement for action with a clear goal. Users can then choose to participate in the campaign. When the goal is met (or “the point” is tipped), an email is sent to…
Tag: webdesign
The Other Web2.0: Not Business As Usual
Aside from a few companies such as Amazon, Google or Facebook, the value of Web2.0 for the business world is still unclear, and return on investment still seems murky at best. However for the non-profit world, the value of Web2.0 is clear – the more the users are empowered and congregate around interest that they…
Ask Your Lawmaker, Web2.0 Style
As the elections in US heats up, I checked back on one of my last projects at Forum One, Ask Your Lawmaker (I was the lead information architect). It went live last November and it’s good to see it is finally gathering some steam. Ask Your Lawmaker is a site created by Capitol News Connection…
Innovative Web Technologies: P2P Philanthropy
Here’s a re-posting of an article originally posted April 11, 2007, on the Forum One UX&D blog for the benefit of my Korean readers. * * * During the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise 2007 conference I went to a session with Charles Best of Donors Choose, which is a site that allows individual donors to fund…
Strategies for Globalizing Korean Websites
I wrote an article for my company’s December email newsletter sent to clients. The intended audience of the article was upper-management types and web managers in Korea corporations, who intend their websites to reach out to a global audience. Due to some internal restructuring at my company which resulted in the company splitting into three…
Looking for “Using Wireframes” Article?
I recently noticed traffic on this site looking for my Using Wireframes article (my most popular post to date) posted on my old, now-retired blog, strangesystems.net. The article provides an overview of what wireframes are (from a web design, information architecture point of view), some guidelines on how to create them and some Visio and…