Tag Archives: oxford

Incomprehensible industry jargon? Check. (What is a “TOD”, why would I care?) Apostrophe abuse? Check. Weirdly formatted unreadable text? Check. Poorly designed machine with usability failures leading to poorly designed poster to cover same? Check. I don’t know what pisses me off more; that the process of collecting tickets is so badly designed it requires a sign like this […]

Tags: design, oxford, sign, typography, usability, user experience

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Herding cats at Oxford Geek Night

February 18th, 2010

Last night I gave an updated version of my talk on successful community management, “How to Herd Cats” (slideshare link), at the sixteenth Oxford Geek Night. (Update: Al has posted his video of the talk on Vimeo, thanks Al) It was a particular honour to be asked to give a keynote as it was almost three years to […]

Tags: community, ogn, oxford, oxfordgeeknight, society, talk

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It tends to focus on such geekery as web development, technology, music, film, and photography.

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