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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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Twitter: Social knowledge management in 140 characters

Posted by Nathanael Boehm on August 2nd, 2008 in Conversation and Collaboration, General, Social Networks

Just think about how much information is shared and published online each day on Twitter - the context for which is apparent to you because of the timeframe in which tweets are published in relation to other tweets by people who you follow and who follow you back.

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pureCaffeine.com SEO

Posted by Nathanael Boehm on June 14th, 2008 in General

Found this handy Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) tool the other day from Raven: SEO Analyzer.

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Not famous enough for Wikipedia?

Posted by Nathanael Boehm on February 15th, 2008 in General

I’m the #5 result for “Nathanael” on Google, yet this bloke decided I wasn’t famous enough to go on the Nathanael page on Wikipedia. It appears SEO is useless if it can’t get me on Wikipedia.

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Using consistent terminology and labels (Google Calendar)

Posted by Nathanael Boehm on November 15th, 2007 in General

Why make users invest double the amount of time matching up labels in the instructional text with labels on the action buttons? The only reason (I know of) where you might use differing descriptive words is for SEO to increase the findability of content; but that should never inhibit the effectiveness and intuitiveness of navigation [...]

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Broken blog

Posted by Nathanael Boehm on July 1st, 2007 in General

Looks like my host had moved my database to a server with a previous version of MySQL which effectively removed the auto_increment setting on all my tables.

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