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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Personal selection of some of my current popular and favourite posts and articles on my blog:
I am available for hire! (2 September 2008) I'm now available for freelance web design, development, web standards assessment & compliance, documentation and prototyping work.
At what point do we call their bluff? (5 June 2008) Suppression of rights, freedom of speech, demise of democracy and how counter-terrorism counters nothing but innocent citizens.
Oh no I’ve lost followers on Twitter! (30 May 2008) Why people don't follow you back or stop following you altogether, and why it doesn't matter as much as you think.
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Posted by Nathanael Boehm on June 25th, 2008 in Social Networks
To be an early adopter of new web applications and specifically Web 2.0 social networks and User Generated Content (UGC) based sites like Norg, Twitter, Brightkite etc means that you come in before that site or network has reached critical mass.
Tags: community, criticalmass, social, socialnetworks, UGC, users
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