Gerry McGovern has a point here about web customers craving speed: People don’t want experiences on websites. They don’t want to emotionally bond with a website. When was the last time you felt delighted after you booked a flight? Did you have a great experience booking that cinema ticket or did you have a great experience at the cinema?

We are organizing a 2-day usability bootcamp with Christine Perfetti. Here are the details. Will your website or application be successful when it’s launched? Will people be able to use it easily? Will it meet the business objectives? Will you be able to account for the time, money and effort spent on it? To answer these questions, Perfetti Media’s expert usability professional, Christine Perfetti, has put together a 2-Day Usability Bootcamp to help you learn the skills needed to evaluate and improve your designs, be it for a product, website, web application or intranet.

Nice list. I found many resources that I can use today!

An very nice HTML5 book that reads like an iBook.  The book is filled with pictures and small animations that add that little extra that makes the difference. And yes, the most important thing - the topics are short.

Jakob Nielsen’s Intranet Annual 2011 is out. He notices big improvements in mobile deployments and in knowledge sharing using social media tools. I think this is just natural progression—catching up with what is available on the Internet. But it is nice to see successful executions. Knowledge management progressed from cliché to reality, based on simpler and thus more-used features. Mobile intranets doubled.

Mike Gotta makes a nice point about the need to really unpack user adoption when it comes to collaborative apps. When it comes to collaboration, knowledge management, and E2.0 efforts, "culture" is often cited as the reason results fail to meet expectations set when the project is approved. While some projects might acknowledge the need to support post-deployment activities early in the planning stages, strategists and project leaders have consistently told me that they were surprised (and not in a good way) at how they underestimated the effort necessary to gain "adoption" of their solution.

From Six Revisions: This guide covers popular site navigation design patterns. For each site navigation design pattern, we will discuss its common characteristics, its drawbacks, and when best to use it. Nice summary of patterns, but I like O’Reilly’s book on Website Navigation better.

It truly is a new day. One where the old management model is breaking down and being replaced by a new model.  One that is much more flexible and agile. But to achieve this, we need to Humanize Work.  We can’t keep working the same way we always have and think that we will be(...) The post Humanize Work: The Ninth Day (VIDEO) appeared first on VINJONES - Kevin D. Jones.

What is a COG?  COG is short for the term "Corporate Cog" …an employee who is obedient, diligent, comes to work every day, on time and works for the money. They may have gone to school for their job and even received advanced degrees, but they don’t really enjoy what they are doing.  But they(...) The post Are You a Cog? appeared first on VINJONES - Kevin D. Jones.

Weekly VINJONES Discussions get you, me, and your team, in one room to have a discussion.  Here is the first of many weekly videos. The weekly VINJONES Discussions series is a catalyst to higher employee engagement. Here’s how it works: Step 1: Pull up one of the VINJONES Discussion videos at the beginning of your team […] The post Weekly Shots of Employee Engagement - Introducing VINJONES Discussions appeared first on VINJONES - Kevin D. Jones.