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I've been looking for an Information Architect/Information Retrieval specialist to help me better understand the basics of good information systems design. I'm amazed at the wealth of knowledge available to us all via the weblog community and how some of the people in it make complex things so comprehensible.

James Robertson at Column Two posted this helpful example created by Donna Maurer, showing how user stories clarify and enhance requirements documents.

It is an interesting approach and one that I, being neither an engineer nor designer, like quite a lot. It gives the software designer a human goal to achieve.

I thought the accessibility series over at dive into mark used this pretty well, too.

Personas and scenarios. Donna Maurer has written a very practical blog entry on using personas and scenarios. To quote Donna: These were so powerful! It is amazing how much extra information stories can give.

[Column Two]

Building Business Relationships via the Blog

3:30:49 PM

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If you read only one post today, make it this one. This post from Rick came across my aggregator and triggered my thinking. When I put it with the post from Jim and the essay from John I wound up seriously "Triangulating on Shared Knowledge".

Put Your Business Where Your Blog Is.
Just put together a few thoughts on how blogs serve as business relationship-builders. I now have a couple examples of this blog leading directly to business relationships that are playing a significant role in sales opportunities. Those relationships would not have existed but for the blog.

While leads me to a new mantra: put your business where your blog is.
[tins ::: Rick Klau's weblog]

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Radio vs. Traction -- A Personal View

1:58:26 PM

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Jim McGee asked, so I thought I'd try to find an answer.
Jim McGee asks:
Traction? How about Radio?. What more do you get than buying individual licenses for Radio which you can get for about 1/10 the cost of Traction? [ McGee's Musings]
Jim is referring to the review (quoted below) of Traction Server by Jon Udell in InfoWorld, and since I'm trying to get a little traction of my own -- developing a strategy for small to mid-size business information/KM infrastructure -- I decided to investigate it from a business perspective.
Here are the areas I thought important to consider in comparing Traction to Radio: [more...]

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How Does This Differ From Just Posting a Link to an Article

12:42:07 PM

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How does this differ from just posting a link to an article? If you post a link to a web-published article doesn't it get a new version of itself everytime you open it up (barring cacheing, of course)? Some of these PDF breakthroughs just leave me wondering "Why..."

Can PDFs be smart? Coptech thinks so

Company releases software that syncs PDFs to update them as new releases come available, calling the documents ‘SmartPDFs.’
[PDFZone]

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