Thinking Orange

She is a bit slack ?!

Claire — 16th May 2011 10:20AM

by Claire

Sorry, I am been very slack, but it is for a very good cause as i am doing my Masters in Information Mngt at Victoria University and i have 3 papers to go.

I am planning to do afew posts in my next uni break next month around some key learnings i got out of my last big government project on the following topics.......

taxonomy - content vs technical
web standards
using open source - Aegir Ecology, the way forward

and maybe something about web project management ...... watch this space !

http://thinkingorange.com/posts/she-is-a-bit-slack/

About me

Claire — 16th May 2011 10:05AM

by Claire

My career has spanned 10+ years in a wide range of online roles spanning both the private and public sectors. Within my career I have managed many websites (www.sorted.org.nz, www.nzx.com and www.teamup.co.nz) to be more successful and I delivered many complex online projects (redeveloping many sorted online tools and launching map.nzx.com).

More recently I have been involved in developing online strategies for sorted.org.nz, Ministry of Health and all of government, that look to make the most of technologies, that are cost effective and most importantly empowers the given organisation objectives in the online space.

Specialties

Online project management and development (especially complex online tools & CMS systems)
Web analytics
New Zealand Web Standards 2.0
Vendor management ( service levels, procurement, contracts etc)
Online strategy advice and leadership
Information management
Full certfied PRINCE2 project manager
Stakeholder relationship management
Human factor engagement
Public speaking

Download my CV.

http://thinkingorange.com/posts/about-me/

US DOD goes social ...

Claire — 10th September 2010 9:48PM

by Claire

http://socialmedia.defense.gov/ -US Department of Defense as launched a social media focused site along with a new policy .

http://thinkingorange.com/posts/us-dod-goes-social/

Current state of mobile phones - native apps vs browser m sites

Claire — 7th March 2010 7:30AM

by Claire

One of my favourite current arguements - native apps vs browser m site mobile search company Taptu has released a detailed report showing that the future of the Mobile Web is likely to be dominated by cross-platform browser-based mobile web sites - rather than apps built specifically for iPhone, Android, or any other platform .....

http://thinkingorange.com/posts/current-state-of-mobile-phones-native-apps-vs-browser-m-site/

RWW - Social media metrics -

Claire — 26th February 2010 6:43AM

by Claire

I found a good introduction article about the social media metrics issue I was pondering in my old job at sorted.org.nz as online manager .

Some links to check out if you dont have time to read the article ...

http://www.ubervu.com/social-media-comparison/
http://compete.com/

Also another *kind of* related item I found this morning an interesting report about theTop 100 companies worldwide and their social media activities - powerpoint or report.

http://thinkingorange.com/posts/rww-social-media-metrics/

Webstock 2010 day two

Claire — 22nd February 2010 9:34PM

by Claire

Two day of Webstock gave me an all over warm fuzzy feeling. It really made me feel like I was apart of something special. Day one of Webstock did have afew outstanding speakers, like Shelly & Scott, but day two had more even flow of quality to the speakers presenting.

Two day felt like there was abit of theme to the sessions of making start-ups works and mobile come-ubiquitous computing (ubiquitous" nice shine word to learn folks - seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquitous_computing or is that ubiquitous marketinghttp://www.onlinemarketingconnect.com/lauralippay/2010/02/the-future-of-marketing-part-3-marketing-straight-to-the-brain/) .

My highlights for day two, was the punchy start by Eric , Daniel and Amy. Eric gave us the inside on how to stuck it out and make that IT start up work with with alot passion and gusto. Daniel , a talented designer, also told stories about rocky start-up design begins .... Both guys hammered home the idea for getting user feedback into the design and build ASAP. Amy is always a fun, loveable speaker and just wants us to do good design to improve the "quality of the day" for all - hence better days , better people. ( more of the love theme coming though).

As the day went on there were more on starts upslike Kevin Rose talked though us his top 10 tips. The last speaker of the day did really impress me - Mark Pesce. Mark was a great storyteller, he took the audience on a journey into the future and also managed to tied up some the other speakers loose ends. Mark painted a tale of mobile-data-ubiquitous utopia - <sigh> which I say, time can only tell ...watch this space.

I must admit post-stock ... I am looking at everything or anything and thinking how can I make that more mobile .... and how or what I can turn into a start-up success story.....

( also i have added a ipad to my want-list)

http://thinkingorange.com/posts/webstock-2010-day-two/

Google shoppping apps

Claire — 20th February 2010 8:15AM

by Claire

What can't Google do ? http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_shopper_a_mobile_shopping_companion.php

I also found this article interesting as it draws on some of Mark Pesce's ideas around "Augmented reality" or AR

-http://blog.futurestreetconsulting.com/ .... next stop the future.

http://thinkingorange.com/posts/google-shoppping-apps/

Webstock 2010 - Day one

Claire — 19th February 2010 7:13AM

by Claire

http://www.webstock.org.nz/ New Zealand main conferences returns to Wellington, New Zealand. This time sees 24 international speakers. The themes of this confernce are web design, development, mobile, UX, content, community, open data, innovation & inspiration from Eric Ries, Kevin Rose, Daniel Burka, Esther Derby and more.....

Day one as been and gone. The best speaker of the day by a country mile was the loveable Shelley Bernstein (http://www.webstock.org.nz/10/speakers/bernstein.php). Shelley is the Chief of Technology at the Brooklyn Museum where she works to further the Museum's community-oriented mission through projects. Shelly walked us though her amazing job to bring commmunity to the Museum ( and on bugger all budget ) with tools like Twitter , Facebook , Flickr.

The other presenters were a mixed bag, maybe lending to the more techical side of the Wonder World of Web so *maybe* causing a narrowing effect of topic interest.... But strong views come though on -

UX: we need to pull our socks ...

mobile's market is 1/55 of world GDP - its the more important thing to happen to the future of web.

Open data & mircoformats are a happening thing. Jump on the wagon folks !

Scott Thomas ( 2nd best speaker on the day ) went over his work on the Obama Presidential campaign where he was design director. Scott walked us though a classic process of design but was using all the lovely tools of the new web .... nice job ( and he is writing a book about it currently)

http://thinkingorange.com/posts/webstock-2010/

Welcome back

Claire — 18th February 2010 7:16AM

by Claire

Well after spend most of my spare time training for C2C http://www.flickr.com/photos/clairemoava/4359309623/) or thinking about my soon to be old job as online manager at sorted.org.nz , now I can start thinking other things , like doing blog posts !

Off to Webstock 2010.

http://thinkingorange.com/posts/welcome-back/

BBC's new site

Claire — 7th April 2008 7:38PM

by Claire

www.bbc.co.uk as just launched there new site design . Who say big companies cant dance on the web ? umMM ?

Big ticks for -

"customise your homepage"
"Set your location"
"pda/mobile"
"+/- options"
font/size consistence
being able to "edit your weather" ......

For a bit of background ....

http://www.tomski.com/archive/new_archive/000063.html "The BBC’s Fifteen Web Principles" is a great blog entry about the whole BBC project . Its full of gems you can bring out in that heated web arguement. "Let people paste your content on the walls of their virtual homes" and I particularly like "Treat the entire web as a creative canvas:"

http://thinkingorange.com/posts/bbcs-new-site/