benry blog » Miscellany http://www.benry.net/blog Musings on User Experience, Design, Web Analytics and other interests Mon, 03 May 2010 16:00:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 This week’s remainders http://www.benry.net/blog/2009/01/09/this-weeks-remainders-17/ http://www.benry.net/blog/2009/01/09/this-weeks-remainders-17/#comments Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:22:45 +0000 Scott http://www.benry.net/blog/?p=555 This week’s remainders is a post from: benry blog

]]> One day I’ll get back to blogging regularly, for now some misc. finds:

AbeBooks.com – has posted their list of the most expensive book sales for 2008.

Predictive Analytics World runs February 18-19 in San Francisco. Eric Segal, the conference chair, has put together a great event for predictive analytics professionals, managers and commercial practitioners.

Flashbulb Interaction (based in Seattle) has released their online book entitled Working through Screens: 100 Ideas for Envisioning Powerful, Engaging, and Productive User Experiences in Knowledge Work. The book “is a reference for product teams creating new or iteratively improved applications for thinking work. Written for use during early, formative conversations, it provides teams with a broad range of considerations for setting the overall direction and priorities for their onscreen tools. With hundreds of envisioning questions and fictional examples from clinical research, financial trading, and architecture, this volume can help definers and designers to explore innovative new directions for their products”. You can view the book online or download a PDF of the book for printing along with the accompanying idea cards.

Jakub Linowski has launched a little project called Wireframes where you can view new samples of design documentation coming from IA’s, interaction designers, and UX practitioners. Contribute or follow on Twitter.

One of my colleagues passed along this post about possibly using Surface for card sorting. Interesting idea.

You have to love this web stencil kit from Design Commission

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]]> http://www.benry.net/blog/2009/01/09/this-weeks-remainders-17/feed/ 0 Environmental impacts of sales and marketing http://www.benry.net/blog/2008/08/21/environmental-impacts-of-sales-and-marketing/ http://www.benry.net/blog/2008/08/21/environmental-impacts-of-sales-and-marketing/#comments Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:17:29 +0000 Scott http://www.benry.net/blog/?p=528 Environmental impacts of sales and marketing is a post from: benry blog

]]> Two interesting pieces I came across this week that speak to the environmental impacts of everyday marketing and sales activities:

Drink Outside the Box

A standard wine bottle holds 750 milliliters of wine and generates about 5.2 pounds of carbon-dioxide emissions when it travels from a vineyard in California to a store in New York. A 3-liter box generates about half the emissions per 750 milliliters. Switching to wine in a box for the 97 percent of wines that are made to be consumed within a year would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by about two million tons, or the equivalent of retiring 400,000 cars.

Source: The New York Times

Junk Mail’s Impact on Global Warming

…the logging, production, printing, inking, distribution, and landfill emissions of direct mail produce fossil fuel emissions surpassing the total emissions of more than 9 million cars, or put another way, the combined emissions of 7 US states.

Source: Report: Junk Mail’s Impact on Global Warming (there’s also a great interview with the author on Kevin Hillstrom’s blog

Clearly we all have a part to play in reducing our environmental footprint. What’s your company doing?

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]]> http://www.benry.net/blog/2008/08/21/environmental-impacts-of-sales-and-marketing/feed/ 1 Bert and Ernie Mashup http://www.benry.net/blog/2008/08/21/bert-and-ernie-mashup/ http://www.benry.net/blog/2008/08/21/bert-and-ernie-mashup/#comments Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:16:38 +0000 Scott http://www.benry.net/blog/?p=525 Bert and Ernie Mashup is a post from: benry blog

]]> Gotta love stuff like this. Brilliant!

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]]> Just sharing some news: Habanero, the company I work for, was just selected by Calgary Inc. as one of “Calgary’s Best Places to Work” in its July/August 2008 issue. Fourteen companies representing different industries were chosen, and Habanero won in the Creative Industries category. Looking for a job in Calgary? Check us out!

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]]> http://www.benry.net/blog/2008/07/16/calgarys-best-places-to-work/feed/ 2 Apple iPhone number http://www.benry.net/blog/2007/06/27/apple-iphone-number/ http://www.benry.net/blog/2007/06/27/apple-iphone-number/#comments Wed, 27 Jun 2007 02:40:02 +0000 Scott http://www.benry.net/blog/2007/06/27/apple-iphone-number/ Apple iPhone number is a post from: benry blog

]]> How long do you think it will be until people start calling the John Appleseed phone number shown in the new iPhone demo movie? In case you want to call, here it is: (408) 550-3542. Alternately you can e-mail jappleseed@mac.com

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