What do you want to contribute?
The things I really want to see happen are:
— Building our group to last and building Events at Stanford to last. This means managing an effective leadership transition and working with the university to secure funding and management of E@S long term.
— Making E@S more […]

A sample screener document that helps narrow down the possible users for a focus group. Something similar may be useful for the groupsATstanford intranet testing.

All those at the retreat in Monterey surely remember the toys we played with that, though often indirectly, aided our creativity. Looking through an old WIRED today, I noticed a list of several toys under their “WIRED Tools” category. We should consider stocking the Blender with an assortment of these in the common rooms. I […]

WIRED magazine is holding a celebration in May of all things future: NEXTFEST. It should be a physical example of all those photoshopped futuristic back pages in the magazine.
May 14-16, San Francisco — I’ll be there.

Here on Narnia ski trip, Josh and I are sharing a dial-up connection via ad-hoc(racy) 802.11b. Gotta love ISIS tech.
In other news, the ISIS shirts are up and coming, as well as some new gfx. Have a great weekend folks!

Last night I heard that Orkut’s social networking stuff is now being used by Google for their new Friendster clone. Great for Orkut, we’ll see how great for Google.
I personally am lukewarm about the prospect, having been underwhelmed by Club Nexus and inCircle, Orkut’s previous attempts at Stanford; and also being a detractor of the […]

Thought this would be on interest to the ISIS crew… the feed types include “New Releases, Just Added, iTunes Top Songs, iTunes Top Albums, and Featured Albums and Exclusives”
iTunes is now offering RSS Feeds for the latest happenings in the Music Store. Users can set up their parameters for a feed at Apple’s iTunes Music […]

Well, as some of you were similarly shocked, the Daily reported that a) CourseWork has lost its annual funding b) Stanford is seeking departamental help to continue this high-cost courseware project and 3) the annual costs for maintenance alone exceed $700,000. I have not used the CCNet coureware, but free is always good.
From the […]

A quick prototype of what a groupsATstanford intranet might look like:
Intranet Design 01 Screenshot

My contribution:
Primarily I will be working on the groupsATstanford project, especially the group intranet portion, with the goal to transfer knowledge of the “elder statesmen” to the group as a whole.
How to grow/learn:
I hope to use the design process to learn connections between different parts of design and team projects, and to learn how to […]