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Ways Facebook Could Promote Saving Lives Beyond Organ Donations

May 2, 2012 Design, Marketing Moments, News & Politics, Thoughts, User Experience, Web & Technology No comments
Where To Add Organ Donor Info on Facebook

Where To Add Organ Donor Info on Facebook

I read today that Facebook is encouraging organ donations.  I think this is a great effort and more people should be organ donors.  Ultimately I want this campaign to be successful (and it looks like it is) , but I do have a few concerns:

  1. This feature is kind of hidden away.  In fact, I didn’t realize the amount of “Timeline Life Events” I could indicate until I started writing this.  This speaks to a larger problem Facebook has with rolling out new site changes without really communicating to their end-users that it’s happened. See the blog post photo to help with finding this feature’s location.
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BarackObama.com’s Interactive Infographic

October 20, 2011 Efficient, User Experience, Web & Technology No comments

imageI received an email from Jim Messina of BarackObama.com telling me that

  1. They had passed the 1 million grassroots donors mark.
  2. 147,281 donors were from California.
  3. 43 donors were named Charity.

…like me!  But best of all, it sends me to a great interactive infographic.

A few good points for online e-government/political outreach:

  • User Personalization is pretty awesome when you want to make me feel specific in a group of a million.
  • Infographics are a fun way to break down information.  I love charts and GOOD.is Infographics anyone?
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EyeGuide™ Makes Eye Tracking Affordable and Accessible (Video)

October 17, 2011 Articles, Efficient, Web & Technology One comment

Grinbath EyeGuide(TM) LogoGrinbath, a developer of affordable usability and assistive technologies, just released a great overview video of their eye tracking product EyeGuide™.**  The product that released today is a complete suite including hardware, capture software, and analyze software.  Best of all, it’s under $1500.

 

 

Eye tracking technologies can be extremely expensive, making it inaccessible to those looking to broaden their understanding of user behavior and actions.  EyeGuide™’s under $1500 price tag (with additional discounts for multi-unit, education, government, and non-profit) creates a more feasible and affordable reality for everyone.  A few other bonuses:

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The (In)Visible Women of Technology

October 7, 2011 Thoughts, Web & Technology No comments

24720422_1453032576_mThis past week I’ve been confronted by the idea of the visibility of women in technology – or rather, the realization of a certain level of invisibility. Today is Ada Lovelace Day – she is attributed for conceptualizing the first computer program…in the mid-1800s.  Fast forward to this past week, while watching the live streaming of AdobeMAX, I noted the following on Twitter:

I think this might be the first time I’ve seen a woman (Emmy Huang) as a featured presenter at a major tech event. #AdobeMax – intellichick 10/4/2011

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Thanks for Thinking Differently: In Memory of Steve Jobs

October 5, 2011 Life Stories, News & Politics, Web & Technology One comment

image“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

– Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Speech 2005

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