Posts Tagged ‘linkedin’

General Coordination From a general testing perspective, consider the following: Identify and visit the test site before the planned testing days Establish an “onsite” coordinator – usually someone associated with the facility (hotel or facilities manager, perhaps) who will be responsible for any facility provided accommodations Inspect and Validate any and all facility provided accommodations […]

Overview The purpose of this post is to provide a strategy for approaching and resolving a “concern” that has been identified within a application. Overall, the idea is to “add structure” to the process of responding to defects (remediation) in your application. Steps to Remediation Using a resolution methodology referred to as CERT, the steps […]

The goal of a Practice Center of Excellence (CoE) Solution Assessment is to conduct an impartial review of a particular component (or components) of an identified solution or architecture or to address a particular application design pattern strategy concern. The assessment team will identify the purpose and scope of the assessment prior to beginning the […]

One of the hottest discussions, blogs, and topics discussed this week is LinkedIn’s email congratulating its members for having one of the “Top 1%, 5%, 10%” most viewed profiles in 2012. I, also am one of the candidates who received the email with top 5% seen below: My first impression doubted the email at face […]

Valeria Arguello on our sister Spark Blog has a short post on LinkedIn ads that was interesting in that LinkedIn gives your far more targeting and more information on who looks at your ads.  I won’t repeat everything she has to say but so click through for the entire post.   And now…my favorite features: […]

I met a designer at my cousin’s engagement party last weekend, and he asked me the following question: “I have a client that has a blog, an optimized website, and a good social media presence, but this client wants more site visitors and I’m not sure what else to suggest. Do you have any ideas?” […]

In early September, LinkedIn introduced a new version of company pages to a select few companies including Dell, Philips, Citi and HP. Just last week, LinkedIn rolled-out the new design to more than two million company pages featuring a more visual, streamlined design. There are a few clear differences between the old and new page […]

LinkedIn has recently made a number of changes to make the LinkedIn experience more social and to drive more engagement.  The changes include Facebook like alerts for comments and likes on a specific activity. Comments and activity beyond your 1st level LinkedIn connections can now occur. Essentially LinkedIn has taken Facebook like interaction,  added it […]

LinkedIn is one of the main resource businesses and professionals use as a tool for social networking.  According to LinkedIn Press Center, the network has approximately 161 million members in over 200 countries and territories. According to Business Insider, 6.5 million encrypted LinedIn passwords have been leaked and dumped into a Russian hacker forum. Compare […]

Use Cases Determine Design A few weeks ago LinkedIn released their iPad app; it was immediately praised for it’s slick interface and immediate usability. With a full-featured and flexible site like LinkedIn, most users expect a recreation of the original desktop website with a minor design change for tablets. What LinkedIn actually delivered shows more […]

Software is eating the world. About a month ago Marc Andreessen, part-owner of venture capital firm Andreessen-Horowitz, wrote an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal entitled Why Software is Eating the World in which he stated that, although the overall stock market and economy have tumbled recently, the United States is still in a favorable […]

The healthcare world is in the middle of a data revolution of sorts. Both providers and payors are starting to realize that their transactional systems contain a wealth of data that can be used for strategic advantage. Many organizations are spending considerable time and resources in standardizing, cleansing and remediating data issues in their transactional […]