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Between Customer Development (Lean Startup) work, and Usability/User Experience testing lately, I'm more involved that ever in making useful interactions a reality.
Looking at usabilla as a possible feedback mechanism to give feedback that's not purely analytics driven, to balance out reports.

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Between Customer Development (Lean Startup) work, and Usability/User Experience testing lately, I'm more involved that ever in making useful interactions a reality.
Looking at ethn.io as a possible panel-driven source for upcoming work to feed into other services, phone call interviews, etc.

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App/system for iPhone and Android - to capture ethnographic information on the fly.

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Found Professor Kevin Werbach from Wharton via Twitter conversation with @amyjokim - and who said academia had to be boring?

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Great, quick summary of tools - focused on startups, but could be tweaked for internal, enterprise use.

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"We all know the pain of a lost piece of vital information, whether a customer proposal, document, or important e-mail. The hurt became even more acute this year, as many were forced to comb through data left behind by laid-off colleagues. That's too bad, because the core technologies to enable federated enterprise search have existed for more than 15 years. Yet according to our InformationWeek Analytics Enterprise Search Survey of 552 business technology professionals, not even one in four organizations uses any type of enterprise search system today. "

I still recall a client whose "center of search excellence" employee insisted that federated search was something we made up, and wasn't possible. The same person who's sole job was to harness search, sitting in IT, couldn't tell us what versions and capabilities of the various search technology they had in place.

To paraphrase Bon Jovi "You give search... a bad name."

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Appears to be an unofficial IBM blog - focusing on areas of global concern that are sidelines (sustainability, water conservation/re-use, and others) somewhat off my normal beaten path. Hunting down the latest Global Technology Outlook from IBM led me her

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