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    The blog of Nathanael Boehm, UX/IxD web designer and developer currently employed by the Australian Government and doing freelance work, co-coordinator of the Free Australia Wireless project, unorganiser of BarCampCanberra, online community manager and front-end developer for OpenAustralia, an active member in the web industry with an interest in all things 2.0 - including eGovernment, social media and networking and citizen journalism.

    Main skills are with HTML, CSS and JavaScript with a focus on usability, UCD and accessibility - experienced in PHP/MySQL and C#/MSSQL development, e-Learning, information architecture, systems architecture, technical lead, contract negotiation, vendor management, risk management and search engine optimisation.

    Musician (drums, bass guitar, keyboards and synths) and photographer.

    Meyers-Briggs personality type: INTJ.

    Signal Patterns:
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    Musical: Electrical, Percussive, and Distorted.

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Another bad implementation of Twitter for corporate social media

Posted by Nathanael Boehm on September 30th, 2008 in Conversation and Collaboration, General, Social Networks, User Experience

BigPond Team doing bad things with their implementation of Twitter as a social media communication channel.

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Free Australia Wireless at Web Directions South 2008

Posted by Nathanael Boehm on September 29th, 2008 in Free Australia Wireless, General

Free Australia Wireless supported Web Directions South 2008 this year - link to my post over at FreeAustraliaWireless.com.

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Quality documentation for your developers

Posted by Nathanael Boehm on September 28th, 2008 in General, Project and Task Management, Web Design & Standards

Why it’s important to put some design effort into writing technical documentation to make it easier to read, thereby reducing the risk of errors and omissions from software development.

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Mark Pesce’s closing presentation WDS08

Posted by Nathanael Boehm on September 27th, 2008 in Conversation and Collaboration, Events and Conferences, Free Australia Wireless, General, Social Networks

My thoughts on Mark Pesce’s closing presentation at Web Directions South 2008.

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Web Directions South 2008, Day 1

Posted by Nathanael Boehm on September 26th, 2008 in Events and Conferences, Free Australia Wireless, General, Web Design & Standards

This is the fourth Web Directions (Essentials) conference I’ve attended and I’m just about to head off to Day 2 but before I do, a quick debrief on yesterday.
Headed in early as JJ and myself were setting up the Meraki mesh network for the conference venue as iBurst and Free Australia Wireless are jointly providing [...]

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