business
31 March 2009 | Comments Off
Last Sunday’s New York Times pointed to new research that indicates that future returns of the stock market are far more uncertain than appreciated, making the market much riskier than investors believe. As investors come to grips with the study, stocks could be permanently discounted at a level below Professor Jeremy Siegel’s mean (over a [...]
Tagged in economic, market, trends
Design Patterns
30 March 2009 | Comments Off
Here’s a study on how mega drop-downs overcome the downsides of regular drop-downs: Mega Drop Down Navigation Menus Work Well By Jacob Nielsen Here’s a screenshot of a great example not listed in the article above:
Tagged in behavior, dropdown, functionality, navigation, patterns, ui, usability
Social Media
25 March 2009 | Comments Off
Are you using social media marketing? if so is it providing benefit to you and your company? A new whitepaper called “How Marketers Are Using Social Media to Grow Their Businesses” by Michael A. Stelzner, has been written and distributed (one of the top retweeted updates on Twitter right now) that looks at how SMM [...]
Tagged in Marketing, Social Media, twitter
business,Social Media
24 March 2009 | Comments Off
Charley Schwab had an opportunity to create a true conversation about retirement built around some very interesting survey findings. They had the chance to create a social media community. Instead, they just plugged in some corporate talking heads and made it just another site selling IRAs. Take a look at Rethinking Retirement, and see if you [...]
Tagged in economic, finance, survey