Six [tag]Creative Commons[/tag] licences were launched for NZ users last Saturday. Each country likes to tweak the international or basic CC licences to conform with their own laws, and NZ has now joined 40 other nations who have done so....
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Posts tagged "Training"
Embarrassing training gap for web writer/editors (ALA)
Professional web writers/editors are severely disadvantaged in terms of training compared with other web professionals. That's an inescapable conclusion from the latest report from A List Apart (ALA). The Web Design Survey 2007 analyses statistics from 33,000 web professionals. That's...
US gov communications & plain language training
The Plain Language in Government Communications Act of 2007 was introduced in the US House of Representatives on 17 September. This is a lovely short, clear, comprehensible bill. It aims: To enhance citizen access to Government information and services by...
Nielsen on introductions
Summary of the latest Alertbox (and yes, it's a summary, not an introduction): Introductory text on Web pages is usually too long, so users skip it. But short intros can increase usability by explaining the remaining content's purpose. Jakob Nielsen...
The first 2 spoonfuls give the taste
Mindless Eating by Brian Wansink offers this, among many other interesting notions. When we're eating, the maximum taste experience occurs in the first two spoonfuls. Ever since hearing about this, I've been hyper-aware of taste as I eat, and I...