Today is our department’s annual chili cook-off. Not too much to talk about this week other that Chrome OS, TinyChat and a few other fun things. Hope you had a great week and got a lot accomplished. Enjoy the links of the week.

5 Effective Calls to Action That Will Get Your Visitors Clicking
Google [...]

This week was all about usability. Thursday November 12th, 2009 was World Usability Day. I was lucky enough to attend the yearly MSU event which featured great speakers, presentations and people. A link to my wrap up can be found at the end of the list below. The links this week seem to follow the [...]

It seems like one after another sickness is starting to spread through the Web department. Yet with multiple people out we have still managed to launch three sites this week (watch for the write up’s shortly) and keep projects moving. The links this week have a theme of “tools”, helpful items for the day to [...]

Happy Halloween! It’s been another great week with tons of progress as we rush to get sites out by the end of the year. Looks like the community has been hard at work too, check out the links of the week below.

INSIGHT: A great way to figure out the weak spots
The “Can’t Have It” Gap
Design [...]

This week I attended TEDxDetroit with 150 other idea people.This weeks list of links all follow the theme of helping out. They all give insight, tips or explain things we see every day but fail to acknowledge.

what 15 freshmen taught me about social media.
Carsonified » 10 Tips on Writing Hero-worthy Error Messages
7 Reasons Why Google [...]

It has been a crazy week, getting back after a week off is tough but I am finally all caught up. This week a few interesting things have happened, more Wave invites went out, FacebookGate started again and we started the planning stages of the next big change to the Wayne State Web landscape. Below [...]

Not much of a pattern to the links this week, quite a few hacks though. Google Wave sent out 100,000 invitations and I was lucky enough to get one. Wait for a post later this week for a review. In the mean time enjoy the links of the week.

Newpaper social media policies all miss mark
Detecting [...]

This week was all about getting things done and planning for the future, doing less but being more focused. The new Events Calendar is coming along nicely, look for a post early next week about it. In the mean time check out these links of the week, most have to do with user experience and [...]

This has been a week of conferences, the jQuery conference then the Ajax Experience that our very own Nick West and Chris Pelzer were at. Quite a bit has been going on around these conferences and the links below show it. Enjoy the links this week.

Things to ask before you redo your website
YUI 2.8.0: Storage [...]

The theme this week was all about research, primarily web research. We dove deep into not only our site analytics but also how users used our sites and even some real time user data. We learned a lot and modified the road map for wayne.edu based on a few key trends that kept coming up. [...]