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Your Information Architecture is in my Audio!

I have always liked the Boxes and Arrows site for the latest on information architecture and interaction design. This post, Information Architecture for Audio: Doing It Right, caught my eye. I had never consciously considered information architecture principals while creating audio.
Here’s the key points:

Write with your audience in mind
Structure your content by providing an overview [...]

2008 12 01 Todd O'Neill Audience
Audio
Objective
information architecture Comments (0)

A Man After My Own Heart: What is a YouTube video?

Tom Clifford and I are members of a group on Facebook. A group affiliated with a professional association, MCA-I. So, it is with wonder, but not necessarily surprise, that one of his blog posts popped up in my Google Alerts.
In “Huh? A “YouTube Video?” What’s That? ” Tom hits the nail on the head. It echos the [...]

2008 02 15 Todd O'Neill Communication
Content
Online
Video Comments (1)

User Generated Content is a Myth

Who thinks of these terms? And why do we let them? User Generated Content (UGC) is less the buzzword than it was, oh say, 6 months ago. But I have yet to read anyone setting the record straight. So here goes: User Generated Content is a Myth. Beyond being a myth, User Generated Content is [...]

2007 05 05 Todd O'Neill Any Media
Blogging
Communication
Content
Content Management
Video Comments (4)

These guys (almost) get it

A very web design-centric but good post here on the Web Design Process. It’s so close I can almost taste it!
The list of process steps are:

Know what you’re doing
Know what the site needs to do (Is this “Goal”?)
Know what the site’s visitors want (When did we figure out who the “Audience” would be?)
Get [...]

2006 10 30 Todd O'Neill Audience
Internet
Objective
Online
Web Design
Web Production Comments (0)

Broadcast is Dead. Long Live Broadcast!

I realized pretty quickly that quoting Mark Twain would be beyond cliche. But, did anyone hear this story on NPR the other night? There was a quote from political consultant Bill Buck who said YouTube is “a tremendously valuable way, not only now but into the future, for getting out whatever message you want to [...]

2006 10 27 Todd O'Neill Audience
Internet
Objective
Video Comments (0)

Sometimes you have to be reminded

Pamela Slim has a great post on writing over at Escape From Cublicle Nation that reminded me to break out my copy of “Elements of Style” and brush up a bit in the writing department.

2006 10 19 Todd O'Neill Writing Comments (2)

StartupNation: 5 Essentials of Website Usability

I posted a comment on this well intentioned article over at StartUp Nation. The article almost hit the mark so I dropped some info on the “Three Ws of Communications”.
I’ll cover more about the “Three Ws” in a future (soon) post.

2006 10 18 Todd O'Neill Audience
Objective Comments (0)