Three. It's a magic number

three points on how twitterfone works

The power of three. Used for presentations or speeches and now on websites.

It's a magic number. Why?

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Designing for mobility & context

photo of me using my mobile to reply to basecamp message

37 Signals added a new feature to Basecamp a couple of weeks ago - you can now respond to project messages directly from email. It sounds simple, but under the hood I'm sure it was tough. But this simple addition has made a huge difference.

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Beyond functional to usable

Functional, usable or lovable on wine labels? Here's some examples of wine labels that go beyond the functional.

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Post-Boot Camp

At 4.50pm yesterday - just 10 minutes from the end of Boot Camp '08 - a massive power A photo of a pint of Guinness outage struck south Dublin. Despite the sudden loss of lighting and overhead projectors, our resouceful iQ presenters managed to wrap up successfully.

Drinks in the Long Hall and Hogan's pubs followed and helped to soothe our throats after 3 long days of lecturing.

Thanks to all our delegates for helping to make Boot Camp '08 such a great event.

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The power of the medium

Shenda Loughnane from ICAN came all the way to BootCamp to talk about online advertising.

Brian from iQ and Shenda from ICAN

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Web 'governed'

Wouldn't you know it - after waiting days for the chance to present at Boot Camp, today I get to host not 1, but 2 workshops. Lucky me!

Delegate feedback to my Web Governance course (just finished) was pretty good. We covered a lot of ground.

If I were to run it again, I would probably include more about Website Standards and the documentation of site management. Several people expressed interest in getting extra information on these topics.

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Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 & more

Des, Tom, Paul and Krishna have just finished their presentations at the Future Now seminar. Each speaker gave his/her own view on where the web is going - from web 1.0 to web 2.0 and as far ahead as web 4.0 (which I never even considered before).

A photo of the speakers

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Web analytics & the spare iPhone

Taking up from where Clodagh finished yesterday in "Web Analytics 101", Brian Donohue is currently hosting an advanced session on the same subject.

A photo of Brian delivering his course

It also transpired that a spare iPhone was needed to help deliver one module of the workshop.

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Sun & smiles at Boot Camp day 2

It is a beautiful morning in Dublin. The first truly warm day of the year and the team is all smiles (as show below). Good omens for today's workshops.

The team ready for today

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Web writing: the value of real-life insights

For many years, iQ has been delivering a "Writing for the Web 101" course. Of all our training events this one is consistently over-subscribed.

A photo of Elizabeth McGuane at Boot Camp

Resident iQ web writer Elizabeth McGuane hosted the course at this afternoon's Boot Camp session. As a former journalist with The Sunday Business Post, her practical advice proved valuable for attendees.

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