I’m re-reading Nicholas Carr’s famous Atlantic article from 2008 titled “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” I’m 10 paragraphs in and I’ve now stopped 4 times, twice to check email, once to tweet about how I keep stopping and now, to start writing this blog post. So it seems, off the cuff, that the answer to [...]
Category Archives: Information management
You must become an accountable content organization
July 11, 2011 – 4:40 pm
If you’re in health care, like most of our clients at Creekmore Consulting, you are already familiar with the term “accountable care organization.” ACOs have become a hot topic in health care — last year’s health care reform bill really promotes the idea that health care organizations should be reimbursed based on the effectiveness of [...]
Ditching my paper planner: Lessons in online organization
May 2, 2011 – 11:55 am
Somewhere around 1994 or 1995, a friend introduced me to the Franklin planner. From that time, I was rarely without one. Over the years, I got bigger and smaller versions of the annual planner, depending on the size of the bag I liked to carry and how much stuff I was trying to organize, but [...]
QR Codes: Ready for Prime Time?
March 23, 2011 – 6:48 am
Great post from Paul Merrill on QR codes: It’s as if each company said, “We need to get something out there with a QR code on it – and it doesn’t matter what it says or links to. Just get it out now, now. We only have two weeks till the event kicks off!” Fail. [...]
SXSW: Dawn Foster on Hacking RSS
March 15, 2011 – 9:14 am
So I’m at Hacking RSS by Dawn Foster. She’s got some more stats about how much data we have in the world. Seems to be a big topic this year here at SXSW. [Incidentally she's got some stats on her slides if you'd like to look. I didn't scribble down the numbers.] We’re talking about [...]
Recommendation Engines: Going Beyond the Social Graph
March 13, 2011 – 4:59 pm
Hunter Walk. Leads product team at YouTube. Tom Conrad. Product engineering at Pandora. Garrett Camp. Cofounder of Stumble Upon. Lior Ron from Google’s Hotpot project. Works on local recommendation engine. Liz Gannes, journalist, moderating. Conrad: Pandora has 8 billion thumbs up/thumbs down data, completely contextualized. Walk says that YouTube knows a lot about where their [...]
SXSW: Todd Park from HHS on the Power of Open Health Data
March 13, 2011 – 3:32 pm
Interesting…Todd Park introduces himself as the CTO and “entrepreneur in residence” at the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. I think his point is that his background is tech entrepreneurship. He says, “That may lead you to ask what the hell I’m doing working for the federal government.” My notes below are paraphrases [my [...]
IA vs. UX vs. content strategy vs. your name here
February 21, 2011 – 9:17 pm
There’s an interesting editorial over at the fall 2010 issue of the Journal of IA, which I do like reading. Eric Reiss spends some time trying to place information architecture, user experience and content strategy in terms of each other. I don’t think it’s an entirely worthless endeavor, but in my opinion, he’s bitten off [...]