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Oxygen Manual

How to Help Your Team Turn Good Ideas
Into Great Solutions

Ideas, like fires, get bigger the more oxygen you add to them. This handbook will show you how to use “oxygen meetings” to turn good ideas into great ones by marshalling the talents of other people.

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Boxes and Arrows

Are Useful Requirements Just A Fairy Tale?

Boxes and Arrows

I’ve heard of a fantastic land far, far away where magical people called “project managers” collect something called “requirements.”

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Tools of the Trade in Comic Book Form

Boxes and Arrows

While at a conference, I was thinking that condensed descriptions of key user-centric tools would be a good thing to have. They could be like those comic books that convert great literary works into a few illustrated pages. So I did that.

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CyberJournalist

Tradition Kills Usability

CyberJournalist.net

As the newspaper industry redirects its content to the Web, the very organizational structures that made the paper model effective are killing the usability of the Web model.

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Tom Kennedy interview

CyberJournalist.net

Tom Kennedy is the Managing Editor for Multimedia at washingtonpost.com and the father and protector of the site's award-winning Camera Works section.

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The Media Center at API

Beyond the Banner

American Press Institute

When the other distractions are pushed aside, we’ll find that advertisers face the same primary challenge as all other Web content producers: satisfying user goals.

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