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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:
    Personality: Curious, Conscientious, and Prudent.
    Musical: Electrical, Percussive, and Distorted.

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Web conference: Edge of the Web (Perth)

Posted by Nathanael Boehm on November 15th, 2008 in Events and Conferences, General, Social Networks, User Experience, Web Design & Standards

Last week I attended the Edge of the Web conference in Perth, Australia - along with WebJam 9, Western Australia Web Awards 08, a Port 80 and a PTUB.
I wrote a blog post on Edge of the Web for SitePoint - go read it!

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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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Bulk dumps - bad Twitter ettiquette

Posted by Nathanael Boehm on September 11th, 2008 in Social Networks, User Experience

Could you please consider not dumping entire clumps of stories into the Twitter feed at a time?

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More on forms

Posted by Nathanael Boehm on August 4th, 2008 in General, User Experience, Web Design & Standards

Just a few more things I thought of since my write-up on Jessica Enders’ recent presentation at the Canberra Web Standards Group inspired by seeing some bad examples of form design over the last few weeks.

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Usability Challenge 2008

Posted by Nathanael Boehm on July 29th, 2008 in Events and Conferences, General, User Experience

One of the opportunities of being a moderator of the Aussie Bloggers’ forum is to regularly contribute to the Aussie Bloggers blog. My first article is on Usability Challenge day.

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