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Thriving in tough times: start with what you know

02-Dec-08

In times of economic prosperity employers tend to focus on finding the right employees and enticing them to stay with a combination of benefits and working conditions.
These days we face a skills shortage, an uncertain economic environment and a general reluctance to take risks. The HR priority for employers, argues Matt Moore in a recent [...]

Survey: understanding the web professions

31-Jul-08

The lovely people at A List Apart are running a demographic survey about people who build web sites.
Here’s a bit of the ALA blurb about why the survey is important:
“Possibly the most important invention of the past century, the web is undeniably one of the most robust engines of knowledge transfer, political and social change, [...]

For better web sites, support your local web worker

16-Nov-07

M’colleagues Usability Guy and Zeebleblibbet are running an online survey this month. Inspired by the recent A List Apart survey, it’s designed to find out some basic information about who ‘does web’ at this university.
Usability Guy commented on an internal discussion list:
We… spend much money on technology, hardware, processes, buildings etc. but how much time [...]