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AN EVENT APART Chicago—a photo set on Flickr. Pictures of the city and the conference for people who make websites.
Notes from An Event Apart Chicago 2013—Luke Wroblewski's note-taking is legendary. Here are his notes on seven of the ten presentations at this year's An Event Apart Chicago.
#aeachi—conference comments on Twitter.
Chicago (Foursquare)—some of my favorite places in the city.
An Event Apart Chicago—sessions, schedule, and speaker bios for the conference that just ended.
AEA Chicago 2013 on Lanyrd—three days of design, code, and content on the social sharing platform for conferences.
THE NEXT AEA event takes place in Austin and is already sold out (although a few spaces are still available for the full-day workshop on multi-device design).
A handful of seats are available for the final event of the year, An Event Apart San Francisco at the Palace Hotel, December 9–11, 2013. Be there or be square.
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CSS & Mobile To The Future | Embrace Users, Constrain Design | An Event Apart Seattle 2012 Day II
TUESDAY, 3 APRIL 2012, was Day II of An Event Apart Seattle, a sold-out, three-day event for people who make websites. If you couldn't be among us, never fear. The amazing Luke Wroblewski (who leads a day-long seminar on mobile web design today) took excellent notes throughout the day, and shares them herewith:
The (CSS) Future is Now – Eric Meyer
In his The Future is Now talk at An Event Apart in Seattle, WA 2012 Eric Meyer talked about some of the visual effects we can achieve with CSS today. Create shiny new visual elements with no images using progressive enhancement and CSS that is available in all modern browsers.
A Philosophy of Restraint
- Simon Collison
In his A Philosophy of Restraint talk at An Event Apart in Seattle, WA 2012 Simon Collison outlined his design philosophy and how he applies it to web projects. Embrace constraints; simplicity and complexity; design aesthetic; design systems as foundations that prepare us for future projects and complexity; affordances and type; focus and content; audit and pause — prevent catastrophic failures and shine a new light on what you've learned with each project.
Touch Events – Peter-Paul Koch (PPK)
In his Touch Events talk at An Event Apart in Seattle, WA 2012 Peter-Paul Koch talked about touch support in mobile browsers and how to handle touch events in web development. Includes a ranking of current mobile browsers; interaction modes in mobile versus desktop (mouse) and keyboard — how do we adjust scripts to work with touch?; touch events; supporting modes; event cascade; and "stick with click."
Mobile to the Future – Luke Wroblewski
Alas, Luke could not take notes on his own presentation. Here's what it was about: When something new comes along, it's common for us to react with what we already know. Radio programming on TV, print design on web pages, and now web page design on mobile devices. But every medium ultimately needs unique thinking and design to reach its true potential. Through an in-depth look at several common web interactions, Luke outlined how to adapt existing desktop design solutions for mobile devices and how to use mobile to expand what's possible across all devices.Instead of thinking about how to reformat your websites to fit mobile screens, attendees learned to see mobile as way to rethink the future of the web.
What's Your Problem? – Whitney Hess
In her What's Your Problem? Putting Purpose Back into Your Projects talk at An Event Apart in Seattle, WA 2012 Whitney Hess outlined the value of learning about opportunities directly from customers. Understand the problem before designing the solution. Ask why before you figure out how. There is no universal solution for all our projects, we need to determine which practices are "best" through our understanding of problems. Our reliance on best practices is creating a world of uniform websites that solve no one's problem. Leave the desk and interact with people. Rather than the problem solver, be the person who can see the problem.
Properties of Intuitive Pages
- Jared Spool
At An Event Apart in Seattle WA 2012, Jared Spool walked through what makes a design intuitive, why some users need different treatment, and the role of design. Current versus acquired knowledge and how to bridge the gap (how to train users, thus making your site or app "intuitive"). Redesigns and how to avoid disaster. Design skills. The gap between current knowledge and target knowledge is where design happens. Why intuitive design is only possible in small, short iterations.
Day III begins in 90 minutes. See some of you there.
Photos: AEA Seattle Flickr pool or hashtags #aea and #aeasea on Instagram.
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An Event Apart Atlanta 2011
YOU FIND ME ENSCONCED in the fabulous Buckhead, Atlanta Intercontinental Hotel, preparing to unleash An Event Apart Atlanta 2011, three days of design, code, and content strategy for people who make websites. Eric Meyer and I co-founded our traveling web conference in December, 2005; in 2006 we chose Atlanta for our second event, and it was the worst show we've ever done. We hosted at Turner Field, not realizing that half the audience would be forced to crane their necks around pillars if they wanted to see our speakers or the screen on which slides were projected.
Also not realizing that Turner Field's promised contractual ability to deliver Wi-Fi was more theoretical than factual: the venue's A/V guy spent the entire show trying to get an internet connection going. You could watch audience members twitchily check their laptops for email every fourteen seconds, then make the "no internet" face that is not unlike the face addicts make when the crack dealer is late, then check their laptops again.
The food was good, our speakers (including local hero Todd Dominey) had wise lessons to impart, and most attendees had a pretty good time, but Eric and I still shudder to remember everything that went wrong with that gig.
Not to jinx anything, but times have changed. We are now a major three-day event, thanks to a kick-ass staff and the wonderful community that has made this show its home. We thank you from the bottoms of our big grateful hearts.
I will see several hundred of you for the next three days. Those not attending may follow along:
- An Event Apart Atlanta three-day schedule
- A Feed Apart – live tweeting, Monday through Wednesday
- AEA Atlanta Flickr Group
- An Event Apart Facebook page
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HTML5, CSS3, UX, Design: Links from An Event Apart Boston 2011
THE SHOW IS OVER, but the memories, write-ups, demos, and links remain. Enjoy!
An Event Apart Boston 2011 group photo pool
Speakers, attendees, parties, and the wonders of Boston, captured by those who were there.
What Every Designer Should Know (a)
Jeremy Keith quite effectively live-blogs my opening keynote on the particular opportunities of Now in the field of web design, and the skills every designer needs to capitalize on the moment and make great things.
The Password Anti-Pattern
Related to my talk: Jeremy Keith's original write-up on a notorious but all-too-common practice. If your boss or client tells you to design this pattern, just say no. Design that does not serve users does not serve business.
What Every Designer Should Know (b)
"In his opening keynote … Jeffrey Zeldman talked about the skills and opportunities that should be top of mind for everyone designing on the Web today." Luke Wroblewski's write-up.
Whitney Hess: Design Principles — The Philosophy of UX
"As a consultant, [Whitney] spends a lot of time talking about UX and inevitably, the talk turns to deliverables and process but really we should be establishing a philosophy about how to treat people, in the same way that visual design is about establishing a philosophy about how make an impact. Visual design has principles to achieve that: contrast, emphasis, balance, proportion, rhythm, movement, texture, harmony and unity." In this talk, Whitney proposed a set of 10 principles for UX design.
Veerle Pieters: The Experimental Zone
Live blogging by Jeremy Keith. Veerle, a noted graphic and interaction designer from Belgium, shared her process for discovering design through iteration and experimentation.
Luke Wroblewski: Mobile Web Design Moves
Luke's live awesomeness cannot be captured in dead written words, but Mr Keith does a splendid job of quickly sketching many of the leading ideas in this key AEA 2011 talk.
See also: funky dance moves with Luke Wroblewski, a very short video I captured as Luke led the crowd in the opening moves of Michael Jackson's "Thriller."
Ethan Marcotte: The Responsive Designer's Workflow (a)
"The next talk here at An Event Apart in Boston is one I've really, really, really been looking forward to: it's a presentation by my hero Ethan Marcotte."
Ethan Marcotte: The Responsive Designer's Workflow (b)
Ethan's amazing talk—a key aspect of design in 2011 and AEA session of note—as captured by the great Luke Wroblewski.
An Event Apart: The Secret Lives of Links—Jared Spool
"In his presentation at An Event Apart in Boston, MA 2011 Jared Spool detailed the importance and role of links on Web pages." No writer can capture Jared Spool's engaging personality or the quips that produce raucous laughter throughout his sessions, but Luke does an outstanding job of noting the primary ideas Jared shares in this riveting and highly useful UX session.
An Event Apart: All Our Yesterdays—Jeremy Keith
Luke W: "In his All Our Yesterdays presentation at An Event Apart in Boston, MA 2011 Jeremy Keith outlined the problem of digital preservation on the Web and provided some strategies for taking a long term view of our Web pages."
Although it is hard to pick highlights among such great speakers and topics, this talk was a highlight for me. As in, it blew my mind. Several people said it should be a TED talk.
An Event Apart: From Idea to Interface—Aarron Walter
Luke: "In his Idea to Interface presentation at An Event Apart in Boston, MA 2011 Aarron Walter encouraged Web designers and developers to tackle their personal projects by walking through examples and ways to jump in. Here are my notes from his talk."
Links and Resources from "From Idea to Interface"
Compiled by the speaker, links include Design Personas Template and Example, the story behind the illustrations in the presentation created by Mike Rhode, Dribble, Huffduffer, Sketchboards, Mustache for inserting data into your prototypes, Keynote Kung Fu, Mocking Bird, Yahoo Design Patterns, MailChimp Design Pattern Library, Object Oriented CSS by Nicole Sullivan and more!
An Event Apart: CSS3 Animations—Andy Clarke
"In his Smoke Gets In Your Eyes presentation at An Event Apart in Boston, MA 2011 Andy Clarke showcased what is possible with CSS3 animations using transitions and transforms in the WebKit browser." Write-up by the legendary Luke Wroblewski.
The "Mad Men" opening titles re-created entirely in CSS3 animation. (Currently requires Webkit browser, e.g. Safari, Chrome.)
CSS3 Animation List
Anthony Calzadilla, a key collaborator on the Mad Men CSS3 animation, showcases his works.
Box Shadow Curl
Pure CSS3 box-shadow page curl effect. Mentioned during Ethan Marcotte's Day 3 session on exploring CSS3.
Multiple CSS Transition Durations
Fascinating article by Anton Peck (who attended the show). Proposed: a solution to a key problem with CSS transitions. ("Even now, my main issue with transitions is that they use the same time-length value for the inbound effect as they do the outbound. For example, when you create a transition on an image with a 1-second duration, you get that length of time for both mousing over, and mousing away from the object. This type of behavior should be avoided, for the sake of the end-user!")
Everything You Wanted to Know About CSS3 Gradients
Ethan Marcotte: "Hello. I am here to discuss CSS3 gradients. Because, let's face it, what the web really needed was more gradients."
Ultimate CSS3 Gradient Generator
Like it says.
Linear Gradients Generator
By the incomparable John Allsopp.
These sessions were not captured
Some of our best talks were not captured by note-takers, at least not to my knowledge. They include:
- Eric Meyer: CSS Anarchist's Cookbook
- Mark Boulton: Outing the Mind: Designing Layouts That Think for You
- Jeff Veen: Disaster, DNA, and the Fathomless Depth of the Web
It's possible that the special nature of these presentations made them impossible to capture in session notes. (You had to be there.)
There are also no notes on the two half-day workshop sessions, "Understand HTML5 With Jeremy Keith," and "Explore CSS3 With Ethan Marcotte."
What have I missed?
Attendees and followers, below please add the URLs of related educational links, write-ups, and tools I've missed here. Thanks!
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Webvanta Video: Jeffrey Zeldman on the State of Web Design
From the floor of An Event Apart Seattle 2011:
"Mobile is huge. The iPhone, iPad, and Android are huge. On the one hand, they are standards-facing, because they all support HTML5 and CSS3, so you can create great mobile experiences using web standards. You can create apps using web standards. On the other hand, there is also the temptation to go a proprietary route. In a strange way, although the browsers are much more standards compliant, it seems like we are redoing the browser war. Only now, it's not the browser wars, it's platform wars."
Video interview, plus transcript: Interview with Jeffrey Zeldman on the State of Web Design. Thank you, Michael Slater.
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2010: The Year in Web Standards
WHAT A YEAR 2010 has been. It was the year HTML5 and CSS3 broke wide; the year the iPad, iPhone, and Android led designers down the contradictory paths of proprietary application design and standards-based mobile web application design—in both cases focused on user needs, simplicity, and new ways of interacting thanks to small screens and touch-sensitive surfaces.
It was the third year in a row that everyone was talking about content strategy and designers refused to "just comp something up" without first conducting research and developing a user experience strategy.
Even outside the newest, best browsers, things were better than ever. Modernizr and eCSStender brought advanced selectors and @font-face to archaic browsers (not to mention HTML5 and SVG, in the case of Modernizr). Tim Murtaugh and Mike Pick's HTML5 Reset and Paul Irish's HTML5 Boilerplate gave us clean starting points for HTML5- and CSS3-powered sites.
Web fonts were everywhere—from the W3C to small personal and large commercial websites—thanks to pioneering syntax constructions by Paul Irish and Richard Fink, fine open-source products like the Font Squirrel @Font-Face Generator,
open-source liberal font licensing like FontSpring's, and terrific service platforms led by Typekit and including Fontdeck, Webtype, Typotheque, and Kernest.
Print continued its move to networked screens. iPhone found a worthy adversary in Android. Webkit was ubiquitous.
Insights into the new spirit of web design, from a wide variety of extremely smart people, can be seen and heard on The Big Web Show, which Dan Benjamin and I started this year (and which won Video Podcast of the Year in the 2010 .net Awards), on Dan's other shows on the 5by5 network, on the Workers of the Web podcast by Alan Houser and Eric Anderson, and of course in A List Apart for people who make websites.
Zeldman.com: The Year in Review
A few things I wrote here at zeldman.com this year (some related to web standards and design, some not) may be worth reviewing:
- iPad as the New Flash 17 October 2010
- Masturbatory novelty is not a business strategy.
- Flash, iPad, and Standards 1 February 2010
- Lack of Flash in the iPad (and before that, in the iPhone) is a win for accessible, standards-based design. Not because Flash is bad, but because the increasing popularity of devices that don't support Flash is going to force recalcitrant web developers to build the semantic HTML layer first.
- An InDesign for HTML and CSS? 5 July 2010
- while our current tools can certainly stand improvement, no company will ever create "the modern day equivalent of Illustrator and PageMaker for CSS, HTML5 and JavaScript." The assumption that a such thing is possible suggests a lack of understanding.
- Stop Chasing Followers 21 April 2010
- The web is not a game of "eyeballs." Never has been, never will be. Influence matters, numbers don't.
- Crowdsourcing Dickens 23 March 2010
- Like it says.
- My Love/Hate Affair with Typekit 22 March 2010
- Like it says.
- You Cannot Copyright A Tweet 25 February 2010
- Like it says.
- Free Advice: Show Up Early 5 February 2010
- Love means never having to say you're sorry, but client services means apologizing every five minutes. Give yourself one less thing to be sorry for. Take some free advice. Show up often, and show up early.
Outside Reading
A few things I wrote elsewhere might repay your interest as well:
- The Future of Web Standards 26 September, for .net Magazine
- Cheap, complex devices such as the iPhone and the Droid have come along at precisely the moment when HTML5, CSS3 and web fonts are ready for action; when standards-based web development is no longer relegated to the fringe; and when web designers, no longer content to merely decorate screens, are crafting provocative, multi-platform experiences. Is this the dawn of a new web?
- Style vs. Design written in 1999 and slightly revised in 2005, for Adobe
- When Style is a fetish, sites confuse visitors, hurting users and the companies that paid for the sites. When designers don't start by asking who will use the site, and what they will use it for, we get meaningless eye candy that gives beauty a bad name.
Happy New Year, all!
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UX: The Enemy Within
PEOPLE ARE SURPRISED to hear that I speak at conferences about content strategy and yet still do interaction design work for clients. Why can't I love them both? I loved them both when I called them information architecture."
Karen McGrane—UX: The Enemy Within
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Web Education on Big Web Show
Update! Final audio and video are now available for your listening and viewing pleasure at 5by5.tv.
Liz Danzico (@bobulate), author of Bobulate, and chairperson of the MFA in Interaction Design program at New York's School of Visual Arts, is today's guest on The Big Web Show.
Join co-host Dan Benjamin, Liz, and me live at 1:00 PM EDT today as we discuss web and interaction design education, user experience design, how to structure a program and teach a class, acquiring and editing content, and much more. Watch the live program at live.5by5.tv. Your call-in and chatroom questions and comments are welcome.
After the live "taping," the show will be edited and posted in video and audio podcast form, available from 5by5.tv and the iTunes store. (Audio on iTunes | Video on iTunes)
Liz Danzico is an independent consultant, and user experience consultant for Happy Cog Studios. She is a columnist for Interactions Magazine, former editor of Boxes and Arrows, former director of experience strategy for AIGA, and former IA director at Barnes & Noble. She directed product development at Daylife and Rodale Digital, and before co-founding the MFA in Interaction Design program with Steven Heller, she taught at the New School University, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and Columbia University.
Join us for a very special interview today on The Big Web Show.
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MFA Interaction Design, Day 1
On the last night of August, 2009, the MFA in Interaction Design at School of Visual Arts opened its doors to eighteen gifted students. The intense program will be like Project Runway, except that it lasts two years, and nobody will be "out."
Created and chaired by Liz Danzico and Steven Heller, SVA's MFA in Interaction Design is one of the only graduate-level degrees dedicated to interaction design in the U.S. Over two years of night classes, the program teaches students from diverse backgrounds (including design, computer programming, architecture, and even majors in English literature) to envision and create experiences across all manner of media, including the real world.
Students in this program will not merely become better web or interaction designers. They will develop user experience conventions in media where no such conventions exist.
In a beautiful post at Bobulate, Liz places the opening of the new program in the context of SVA's history.
As a faculty member, I attended the opening orientation and have the crummy iPhone pictures to prove it.
It was a thrill to meet these talented students, who will spend the next two years haunting the program's beautiful new design space at night (most of them after working at their day jobs, an SVA tradition).
To attend the program's many free events, or simply to enjoy it vicariously, follow twitter.com/svaixd. And keep watching the skies.
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I find it interesting the number of people that equate "honesty" with "rudeness". You can be honest with out being rude.
Telling a pug group after the 5th wipe on trash, "Guys, I'm sorry, but my play time is limited and we don't seem to be making very good progress at this point, I think I am just going to call it, hopefully we can have better luck some other time." is COMPLETELY honest without being offensive OR belittling. You never know who may be controlling that toon in greens, pugging to gear up their 5th alt.
Also, as a Guild Master myself when someone leaves I often like to follow up with them as to WHY they left, ask them if they have suggestions in ways we can improve. Often what I may hear is crap (you didn't give me enough loot) but sometimes it can be helpful. (I didn't feel welcomed or valued.) I can then take this information back to the officers so we can work on improving.
We recently had a member leave who while people were VERY angry with him over his choice at least he was honest. (He wanted to progress faster than our guild did due to our more "work and family friendly" raid schedule.) But then he was also 17 so it was understandable even if people WERE unhappy about the manner in which he chose to handle it.
But I have to say that other than thinking you HAVE to lie to be tactful, playing smart and keeping in mind that ANY person you encounter (even that Terriabad) may someday down the road be your ticket to a raid, group, guild or other desired advancement. Save yourself the shot in the foot.
This. This this this.
Daraia hits it perfectly on the head. Be polite, be respectful, but ALSO be honest. On the flip side, be honest, but ALSO be polite and respectful.
Lying isn't tact. Tact is learning how to say the truth in ways that make it easiest (or at least, least painful) to accept.
"You guys suck, I'm out of here," is rude, even if honest. "I, uh, have to go water the dog," is dishonest, even if it is less rude.
"I'm sorry, folks, but this run is really beating us up. I'd like to call it, so if you want to find another tank/healer/dps go ahead." This points no fingers, but states what's happening. If someone asks, "was I bad?" you can answer honestly but politely. "You were doing okay, but your threat seemed a little low. Were you ?" Or "You were healing okay, but the tank seemed to be dropping a lot. It could have been his gear, or your gear... Were you OOM a lot?" And so on. Constructive, not rude.
On the analogy question, "Do these make me look fat?" is a Yes/No question. This makes it a trap if the honest answer is "yes", because one answer is mean, and the other is lying. That said, I don't blame people who say it for using it, as it's societally-ingrained for many people to be manipulative in this way... But learning to not be manipulative will benefit a person mentally and emotionally in the long run.
A much better way for a woman who would be tempted to ask "Do I look fat?" to seek validation and a positive boost is to ask a NON-YES/NO question: "How do I look?" Because the respondent can then honestly, truthfully and *supportively* answer "You look great!"
"A much better way for a woman who would be tempted to ask 'Do I look fat?' to seek validation and a positive boost is to ask a NON-YES/NO question: 'How do I look?' Because the respondent can then honestly, truthfully and *supportively* answer 'You look great!'"
1000 times thank you. It's way, way more attractive and pleasant when a person is obviously looking for a positive response rather than fishing for one by asking you to deny a negative assumption. "You look great!" is much more fun to tell someone than "No, you don't look fat."
'"You guys suck, I'm out of here," is rude, even if honest. "I, uh, have to go water the dog," is dishonest, even if it is less rude.'
That's why when I make such an excuse, I actually take the time to go water the dog.
"I have company" means "I ordered a pizza a little while ago when things started looking bleak."
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Yesterday I had a chat with the consultatant at my health food store re reducing muscle tension - since I'm already doing the good breathing, yoga, exercise, general diet & stress mgmt stuff, but I'm still clenching my teeth at night - bah! Right away she said - oh you probably need more Magnesium. So I've been doing some very interesting reading about it - seems like a wonder mineral & most of us are deficient.
Anybody using Mag supplements - what do you notice?
true gecko - I've been taking a Calcium/Mag combo for my bones. Consultant suggested extra would be useful. In some of my reading last night re effect on muscle tension - calcium is kinda the 'on' switch to trigger muscle fibres to work & mag is the 'off' switch to trigger them to relax - so both are absolutely necessary, but sometimes (often) get out of balance.
Do need to be cautious if one has any kidney problems - extra mag can be dangerous in that case. Please - it is important to get good consultation & I'm definitely not promoting anybody jump in and start self-medicating without such.
Very interested in this - my sweetie often has twitchy muscles at night, we were laughing about it last night in fact, and grinding teeth has been an issue too. I'll look at it as well - he'd be happy to have a suggestion that would help. Chamomile tea helps a bit, but not enough. Interesting that this deals with physical side of stress/tension instead of just emotional side like St. John's wort (which I really like)
Interesting, hubby and I were discussing tooth grinding in one's sleep just last night. He asked me if it was from stress. It seems that is one of the causes but there are more.
I know that in pregnancy you have to watch you don't get excessive Magnesium. Tums with just calcium for heartburn as opposed to say Rolaids with Cal and Mag.
True birthstone - interesting to learn about the physical side of this problem - I've been struggling for a while with it, but it's making more sense now. You can do all the good relaxation stuff etc. but if your own biology is working in the opposite direction ... well ... less than stellar results!
I watched a couple of youtube videos by MD Dr. Mark Hyman on magnesium - very interesting. He's somebody whose opinion I trust, as I came across his writings with regard to gluten (and other food) sensitivity etc.
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How Radio Producers Can Make the Most of Social Media
With the social media revolution, radio audiences are no longer content to just sit and listen to your work. They want to interact! And there are ways to use this to your advantage. Below are a few tips for how radio producers can ride today's social media wave to extend the reach of your stories AND find even more work.
1. Tell your own story/Make yourself easy to find. Social media is NOT like a non-narrated radio story: you have to put yourself into it. Social media not only amplifies who you are but it can also be useful in your career… if people can find you. Why not use the free real estate available on social media sites to build the story about yourself? Take a few minutes to fill out the About section on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. and be sure to post a link to your website. If you don't have a homepage, try using free sites like WordPress.com, About.me or even your PRX profile. No matter where someone stumbles on your work online, they should be able to easily find more information about you (and be able to contact with you about your dream gig). And for goodness sake, even though you're a radio producer, add a picture of yourself (even if it's just your ear)!
2. Wrangle your email inbox. It often seems like Email Overload is the biggest impediment to using social media (i.e. "I don't have time"). Try some of these tactics to tame your inbox: delete any emails more than 21 days old (you're not going to respond to these), try to look at new emails only once (respond and delete or archive), set up filters and labels to categorize new messages, change listserve settings to daily digests rather than individual messages, unsubscribe from e-newsletters and follow the senders on Facebook or Twitter. Your goal is "inbox zero". With fewer email messages weighing you down, the more free you'll be to use social media. In fact, many people find that social media actually replaces the need for many types of email messages. For more tips, check out the Email Charter.
3. Listen. Social media can be as good as a set of Sony MDR7506 headphones…if you use it wisely. To keep tabs on the world of radio storytelling, "like" the Facebook pages of radio shows and media organizations or "friend"/subscribe to the Facebook profiles of other producers, use a tool like Tweetdeck to follow Twitter conversations with hashtags like #pubmedia, #pubradio, #pubjobs and #radiostory and use Feedly to subscribe to relevant blogs with RSS ("real simple syndication"). Use the same tools for different subjects (i.e. your latest project) to hear what people are already saying.
4. Share strategically. You are what you share on social media. My savvy colleague Deanna Zandt recommends a "30-70 mix", i.e. 30% of the content you share can be about your work but 70% should be about other people's stuff that you find interesting or useful. It's karma: the more you share and curate other people's work, the more likely they will be to share yours. Use social share buttons on websites and/or cite the Twitter handles of other producers and organizations when you share their work. Once you've built trust online, you can ask your networks to help share your work.
5. Make your content more shareable: Write descriptive and enticing (not artsy) titles that hint at the content of your radio story and always always use a visual image. For some more good tips on making things shareable, check out this presentation from Upworthy "How To Make That One Thing Go Viral."
6. Build relationships with bloggers. More bloggers are looking for multimedia content for their websites, so why not offer them your latest radio story that relates to the theme of their blog? Video is competing with us for attention so it's best if your story has an embed code (i.e. placing a SoundCloud track directly on the blog so readers don't have to click and go somewhere else to listen). To connect with bloggers, comment, email and/or tweet them (i.e. read more from Chris Abraham on blogger outreach).
7. Make your stories easy to find. To help more people find and hear your work, categorize it with keywords (the tags section on SoundCloud or Youtube). On Twitter, use hashtags that relate to the story's subject so it gets seen in those information streams (i.e. locations like #capecod, industry-specific tags like #musicnews, etc. Use Google to find others).
8. Find your social media style: No one can be everywhere online so experiment and see what tools you like best. This will change the more you learn about new tools and how they work.
9. Measure & evaluate: It's important to monitor what is the most successful stuff that you share. You'll quickly get a sense from your networks what they like and want more of. For more on this, check out Beth Kanter's new book on measurement.
10. Unplug: This is something I struggle with but it's vital for not getting overwhelmed by a digital info tsunami. For example, I try to switch off my computer at 8:00pm each night, drive with my iPhone in the trunk, ignore my iPhone during meals and take a "Digital Sabbath" on the weekend (well, at least during church). Unplugging from time to time means you'll have fresh ideas and perspectives.
So what do you think of these tips? Do you have others to add? Please leave a comment below and/or share this post with others.
@WillColey is a latte-drinking, bike-riding, taco-loving, media-making social justice do-gooder originally from North Carolina now living in Los Angeles. Will has been an advocate and organizer with immigrants and refugees in Charlotte, New York/Newark, and Los Angeles, as well as in Zimbabwe and Great Britain, for organizations including Catholic Charities – Charlotte, American Friends Service Committee, and Jesuit Refugee Service USA. Through Aquifer Media, Will now designs social media content strategies and digital storytelling for groups such as Public Interest Projects, Freedom from Fear awards, Appalachian Carbon Partnership and Detention Watch Network. Will is a graduate of Wake Forest University and has a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University. In 2011, he participated in the first-ever Transom Radio Story Workshop. In 2012, Will was selected as a SoundCloud Community Fellow to develop the Working Now project.
16 Comments on "How Radio Producers Can Make the Most of Social Media"
I would like to believe that the 30/70 rule works, but it's never paid off for me. I have been practicing this concept for years. I have promoted other people's work like crazy. On my Twitter. My Facebook. My various blogs. I can think of one time I ever got reciprocation (it was from the site Economists Do it With Models, back when it was still a nascent blog). Once!
Perhaps it is because my work isn't worth linking to. I suppose that could be it, all I know is it is very nice idea but it never seems to pay off. Not from big guns and not from other early-career creators, either.
A lot of this other advice is good. The Blogger Cultivation seems like a good approach – tho it's tough. I have a really hard time finding blogs that cover the content I'm interested in. It's weird. It's one of those things that Google doesn't seem to be great at. When I go looking, I just tend to find a lot of link baity crud.
It also seems like if you are a media creator, you should know how much you appreciate it when people respond to your work. If you're a creator, no doubt you are consuming a lot of media, too. So leave the people you like a comment! Rate them on itunes! Tweet about them! They will appreciate it as much as you appreciate it, and your comments may score you a few hits, too. Especially in blog comments (like this one).
Thanks for the comment and adding a tip, Brady. re: the 30/70 mix, I'm wondering: did you directly ask your networks to repost your work? Keep at it. re: finding blogs, Twitter hashtags can help track some down. I also know some folks use http://technorati.com and http://www.alexa.com. Hang in there!
Kerstin Zilm says:
Thanks Will, I really appreciate the advice and recommendations. I still feel overwhelmed getting to do it all while also taking a Digital Sabbath. Maybe by starting to delete all the old Emails – but then that also takes time, maybe there is the one phone number in there somewhere that I will need tomorrow to get my Dream Job …
And I do believe in the Karma of the 30/70 rule
Kerstin, you don't necessarily have to delete all those old emails if you're "overly attached" to them: Archive them! As you go, you might think about putting addresses and contact info into your digital address book for future reference. The point is to unclog your inbox so new messages are less of a burden. Here's more of the benefits of "Digital Purging" http://readwrite.com/2013/01/16/the-digital-purge-how-and-why-to-nuke-your-email-inbox
L.T. Hanlon says:
Thanks for this helpful information, Will! Most of these tips would benefit podcasters like me, too.
Thanks L.T. Agreed!
maya mirsky says:
I like the point about figuring out which bit works for you best. I've wasted time on tumblr before I figured out Twitter is my fun place to be. Doesn't mean I ignore everything else – but I'm more efficient this way and it's less overwhelming of a time suck.
Thanks for the feedback Maya. Yeah I'm more drawn to Twitter than Facebook but I'm also surprised by how much I'm liking Instagram these days. I find that I often experiment with new tools and see what I can learn from them.
You might also think of connecting some of your social media tools. I like http://apps.facebook.com/selectivetwitter for sending some tweets to Facebook (not all of them since you can't post as frequently to Facebook and hashtags aren't welcomed there…).
Karen Y. Engel says:
These were excellent Will! Thank you!
Thanks Karen!
Catherine Stifter says:
Will, I just went from Tweeting as an Indie Producer to Tweeting for a pubradio station-based doc series that I'm producing. I appreciate the tips you gave. (I used Tip #4 to RT 'em.) Here's a question: Any insight as to whether people really do believe that a Tweeter "endorses" what they RT? I notice some folks note that "tweets are not an endorsement". It is confusing to me, because I wouldn't Tweet anything that I didn't think merited some kind of notice. Maybe this is just the merchandizing/advertising world spin on Twitter?
Thanks Catherine! re: tweeting as endorsement. Some people might assume that a RT or sharing something on Twitter = agreement with the content. But I frequently share things that I might not totally agree with but think that they're interesting or fuel for discussion. I try to add a comment like "Interesting" or ask "What do you think of this?" to make that clearer. The ultimate goal is conversation, I guess.
Peter Stewart says:
Hey.A great post! Excuse the sell, but there's loads more help for radio producers in my book "Essential Tweeting Skills For Radio Stations" if any of you would like to take a look: http://www.petestewart.co.uk -
djmacuk says:
Thanks for this article which I got to (from 6000 miles away) because someone else retweeted. I'm a blogging, Twitter and Facebook neophyte and just beginning to understand what works. What I have found helpful is asking friends to guest blog.Every time I get someone to do on my site, the traffic spikes, mainly because they tell their networks, family and friends. Mind you, I've only been blogging for 5 weeks, so don't know if that will continue.
I really like suggestion number 10: Unplug. It's great to be free of the digital shackles for a little while.
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Hello there,
This is very easy to fix, all you have to do is take a render picture of whatever it is you are selling if it is a 3D model. Once you do that, create a new image the size of 80×80, then open your rendered image for the preview in that same program, re-size the top or bottom of the image (whichever looks best) to 80 and then just paste it to the 80×80 image and save. You have to re-size the image either on the top of bottom accordingly.
I don't know if you guys have not notice, but what Rockstar is trying to do with GTA Online is basically create a massive multi-player online (MMO) game.
This is the main reason I hate people who offer free items and websites that offer free 3D models. It is because of them we have so many people selling stolen content on the internet.
Why not just give exclusive authors 70% commissions… Period.
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I think it's a mixture of stuff. I think some people just don't give 5 stars. Some people love the file, but found it too expensive… rate lower. Some people find the file, and it's the best they can find on the entire marketplace, but it's not exactly what they had in their head, so they rate less than 5.
I can understand all this, but people rate items based on their quality, not what the person that bought it thinks they were getting or not. The images are there, the 3D turntable is there… I mean come on. Those that rate items the way you say, others will think there is something wrong with the item when there clearly isn't. And remember that sometimes we can't do anything about the price in this site.
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As far as I know… Someone rated all my Solair's (my brother's account – http://3docean.net/user/Solair) Public Collections 1 star for some reason. Which clearly his work is not 1 star at all. Me and my sister had to "up-rate" his 1 star to 4. That's not very nice.
That's right sis. And on that note, I think information on the member that rated your item should be shown at least to the seller. And make it so that you must be a registered user AND a person that actually bought the item. The same goes for the Public Collections to stop things like what happen to my brother.
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Kol slammed the door of his car roughly, angrily stalking towards the door, pushing it effortlessly. He wasn't going to admit that he went there to see if she was up and moving. He didn't need to prove anything. Now, how was he going to do that without looking suspicious? Kol felt a body shove against him, hearing a gasp escape the perpetrators mouth. He spun around, peering downwards at the brunette, his eyes widening slightly at the fact that it was Katerina. Interesting. "Hello there, Katerina," he allowed his words to drawl out, grasping her hand in his. He was still a gentleman at heart and it was a habit. Kol pressed his lips lightly on her knuckles before releasing her hand, watching it drop idly to her side. "They had informed me of the recent situation. I take it that you're not doing.. so well. Am I wrong?"


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Priority for James is a roster upgradeBarry Jackson, The Miami Herald
MIAMI -- All Heat chatter:
-- The Heat remains the favorite (but not certain) to retain free agent LeBron James, but he wants issues with the roster addressed, according to an associate.
When James speaks with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh this week, he will gauge their willingness to accept new deals that give Miami more spending money. Both appear open to doing that, provided the pay cuts aren't too steep.
The good news for Miami: None of James' other most attractive suitors have the salary cap space to give him a maximum contract, and creating that space would either be difficult or cost them assets that would make their rosters potentially no more appealing than Miami's.
But even though Bosh said he would be receptive to taking a pay cut and a Wade associate said Wade is open to the idea, it probably would not create enough space to add one of this summer's priciest free agents if James doesn't do the same.
A Wade associate said Wade would be receptive to considering a four-year, $60 million deal to replace the $42 million he's owed over the next two seasons.
But let's say Wade and Bosh each take cuts to $15 million next season and that Udonis Haslem can be convinced to opt out of the $4.6 million he's owed next season for a three-year deal starting at $2 million or $2.5 million. And let's say the Heat dumps its other cap commitments except Norris Cole -- meaning Miami trades its first-round pick and cuts Justin Hamilton. (Cole is due $2.15 million.)
Under that scenario, with Wade and Bosh each earning $15 million and James making $20 million (which would be his maximum for next season), the Heat would have only $5.5 million to $6 million under the projected $63.6 million cap, factoring in required holds topping $500,000 for roster spots unfilled up to 12.
The Heat also would have a $2.7 million "room" exception that cannot be combined with cap space, and Miami also could sign players to the minimum, topping out at $1.4 million. So what could $6 million in cap space buy?
It probably wouldn't be enough to lure Carmelo Anthony, Kyle Lowry (who wants $10 million), Luol Deng (his agent said there's "not a chance" he would sign for that), or Trevor Ariza, Marcin Gortat and Channing Frye, who expect well above that. Pau Gasol, who earned $19 million last season, would like to play for a winner, but the Heat will have competition from some of the 15-plus teams with significant cap space, including Dallas.
But if James also took a cut of several million dollars, Miami could make a competitive offer for any of those except possibly Anthony, whom the Heat will call. Though the idea of another James pay cut isn't appealing to some of his associates, it's possible he might do it for a few select players.
-- If James doesn't take a cut, but Wade and Bosh do, the $6 million or so in space would make the Heat a contender for point guards Darren Collison, Kirk Hinrich, Patty Mills or Steve Blake (each could warrant a share of that money), Brooklyn's Paul Pierce (an associate said he wants to play for a winner and included Miami as a possibility), Charlotte power forward Josh McRoberts, Lakers power forward Jordan Hill (Miami pursued him before) and Clippers forward Danny Granger.
The Heat then could use its $2.7 million room exception and minimum contracts on the likes of Ray Allen (ESPN says he's leaning against retirement), Chris Andersen, Marvin Williams, Jordan Hamilton, Chris Kaman, Andray Blatche, Kris Humphries, Vince Carter, Shawn Marion, Jodie Meeks, Caron Butler or Emeka Okafor.
-- James, who planned to opt out even if the Heat had won the NBA championship, likes Clippers coach Doc Rivers and is close with Clippers point guard Chris Paul. But creating enough space to sign him would require the Clippers to find teams able to take DeAndre Jordan ($11.4 million), Jamal Crawford ($5.4 million), Jared Dudley ($4.2 million), Matt Barnes ($3.3 million) and Reggie Bullock ($1.2 million) without sending contracts back and persuading James to agree to a salary as much as $8 million under the $20 million maximum.
Instead, the Clippers could propose a sign-and-trade with Blake Griffin if James wants to sign there, but Yahoo! Sports reported the Heat is adamant against sign-and-trades for James.
Houston will make a run, but to offer James $19 million, the Rockets need to find a taker for Omer Asik and Jeremy Lin -- who are each due $14.9 million balloon payments and have $8.4 million cap numbers -- and make other minor moves.
Chicago would need to amnesty Carlos Boozer and likely trade Taj Gibson to make James a decent offer.
Though the idea of returning to Cleveland down the road holds some appeal to him, James would want the Cavaliers to add another significant piece for him to even consider that this summer, an associate said. And doing that would require parting with Anderson Varejao and perhaps other pieces.
-- James can sign for as much as five years, $115 million with Miami but no more than four years, $85.5 million elsewhere.
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Burgundy Wines at Cooking by the Book This Friday, October 12th
This Friday — October 12 at 6:30 — at Cooking by the Book, we have our Wine Tour de France offering a guided selection of 11 wonderful French wines. David Hamburger, from the famed Acker Merrall & Condit Company here in New York City, will lead the tour. Here are the wines we will enjoy:
- Doyard Cuvee Vendemiaire Brut Champagne
- Crochet Sancerre Croix Roy Loire Valley 2010
- Joseph Drouhin Saint-Veran Burgundy 2010
- Mittnacht Freres "Gyotaku" Alsace 2010
- Roilette Fleurie Beaujolais Burgundy 2011
- Gros Frere et Soeur Hautes-Cotes-de-Nuits Burgundy 2009
- Clos Magne Figeac Saint Emilion Right Bank Bordeaux 2008
- Moulin de Tricot Haut-Medoc Left Bank Bordeaux2008
- Mas Champart St Chinian Languedoc Roussillon 2008
- Gour de Chaule Gigondas Southern Rhone 2007
- Benoit Roseau Syrah de Rosette Northern Rhone 2011
Plus, we'll have a sampling French dishes, too.
As you can see, three of the wines are from Burgundy, a wine growing area east and south of Paris. Burgundy has a long, rich history, both in terms of wine and politics. Wine was growing there when the Romans arrived. At one point, Burgundy was politically separate from France and even more powerful, stretching from Holland down through the Rhone valley to the Mediterranean.
As a wine region, Burgundy is very special. First, when you drive through the steep hills flanking the rivers, you begin to sense what Paradise might look like. Below what looks like fertile soil there is an abundance of limestone which flavors the two dominant grapes: Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Pinot is notoriously hard to grow, and it may have originated here. It's a cool region, and some years suffer from too little sun. Sweet is not an adjective you'll apply to these wines.
No other wine region in France has such a small diversity of grape types, with Pinot and Chardonnay constituting 90% of the grapes grown there. In the past, more abundant grape varietals, like Gamay, were banned by royal leaders who wanted to maintain the purity of Burgundian wines.
By 1000AD, wine growing here was institutionalized with monks and monasteries being the dominant wine producers. The benefits here were astonishing: those monks kept centuries of records of what grew best where. Their research was meticulous, well documented, and groundbreaking.
In equally famous Bordeaux, the vineyards are huge, producing tens or hundreds of thousands of bottles each year. In Burgundy, it's hundreds of bottles, perhaps a few thousands. Why? After the French Revolution, the land in Burgundy, owned mostly by royalty and the Church, was divided among the peasants. And, under Napoleonic law, every piece of property inheritance had to be equally divided among all surviving children.
The result is that today a wine maker in Burgundy may own a few rows of grapes on one plot of land, a few more rows on another. Each "vineyard" is tiny and there are many of them. One complaint about Burgundy wine is that while the best are truly wonderful, there are also more than a few mediocre vineyards. So, a wine expert like David Hamburger, is really essential to aid you in finding those Burgundies that have created buzz and fame for centuries. In 1305, for about 70 years, the Pope lived in Avignon, not Rome. And there in Southern France, the popes and their courts feasted on the best of wines, the Burgundies.
So this Friday, come join us. You'll taste all of France and lots of Burgundy. Discover why kings and popes have relished the Pinot and Chardonnay from this iconic wine region.
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Wine Tour De France at Cooking by the Book on Friday, October 12th
The words wine and France are synonymous. French wines are outstanding for both their quality and diversity. Many wine experts suggest that there is no single "French wine" but really a vast collection of outstanding wine regions that contribute to the French reputation.
So, join us to take a tour, a Wine Tour De France, to explore those regions and their outstanding flavors. On Friday, October 12th at 6:30PM, Cooking by the Book will host a Tour de France guided by wine expert David Hamburger.
The New World has always imitated French food and beverage superiority. Being challenged on all sides by the New World, the French wine industry is redefining herself and continuing to set the global standard. Our tour will demonstrate the absolute vastness of flavors and styles in France. the delightful country wines of Southwest France, the hauntingly aromatic wines of Alsace and the Loire Valley, and of course the classic wines of Bordeaux, Burgundy and the Rhône. The diversity and quality of wines is tremendous, to say the least.
We hope you can join us for this fascinating Tour de France in a celebration of its greatness. You can get more information and register at the link below. Information about our excellent wine expert, the 11 wines you will be tasting, and the matching foods are just below. Class cost is only $75.
Friday, October 12, 2012, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Our Wine Expert David Hamburger:
Our expert instructor is David Hamburger, Director of Special Events at Acker Merrell the oldest wine shop in America, founded in 1820. David will guide our wine platelet tour through France, and explore the vibrant wine tastes of the country to find the differences of regions, the grapes, and provide you will an understanding of how these wines partner with foods, and how wonderful they are on their own.
David is also the director of the Wine Workshop, America's leading series of fine and rare wine tastings and dinners and hosts at least fifty wine events a year for corporate and private clients. David has done guest sommelier spots at Bouley, Le Bernardin, Daniel and Per Se and has developed tasting events for many great winemakers such as: Christian Moueix, Jean-Guillaume Prats, Paul Pontallier, Sebastiano Rosa, Leonardo Raspini, Olivier Krug, Michel Chapoutier, Jacques Lardière, Veronique Drouhin and Erwan Faiveley
Our Wines Menu:
- Doyard Cuvee Vendemiaire Brut Champagne
- Crochet Sancerre Croix Roy Loire Valley 2010
- Joseph Drouhin Saint-Veran Burgundy 2010
- Mittnacht Freres "Gyotaku" Alsace 2010
- Roilette Fleurie Beaujolais Burgundy 2011
- Gros Frere et Soeur Hautes-Cotes-de-Nuits Burgundy 2009
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In Midtown, this boutique hotel is within a 4-minute walk of Manhattan's Central Park and shopping on 5th Avenue. Free Wi-Fi is accessible and has an on-site restaurant.
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In the heart of Times Square and the Broadway theater district, this 4-star hotel features 3 dining options, including a revolving rooftop restaurant.
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The West Tower at ONE UN Plaza - Millennium Hotels and ResortsThis luxurious Manhattan hotel offers guests views of New York City's skyline and the East River. The West Tower at Millennium UN Plaza is also across from the UN Headquarters.
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If I had to complain about something, it would be the price, but I would definitely stay there again.
Location and high bar prices
The Ritz is usually lovely and I always choose to stay there. I love seeing the Statue of Liberty outside my window. Downtown is really coming back.
This time I had requested a king bed and they hadn't booked me one. They had to find one and then put me in a king room that smelled of smoke, had burn marks on the bedside table, stains on the carpet and stains on the ceiling! I asked to be moved. They accommodated me and sent a bottle of wine as an apology. The following trip there I was also put on the top floor with a lovely view.
Had a great time. Loved the location
Kind of pricey
For the price of some of the lesser brands we stayed at a ritz. Lovely location overlooking the statue of liberty. Clean, spacious room. Easy access to subway. Great stay for a picky traveler.
We had asked for two doubles but got a king. They adding a cot but cot ended up being very comfortable.
One of the best place on NYC
The hotel and staff were excellent. I loved having that little suburban feel in Manhattan. Views of the Statue of Liberty were lovely.
Beautiful views, great amenities, attentive staff, wonderful room and facilities. What we have come to expect from RC
Elevators were having problems, so we had to walk. Am sure this was a momentary glitch. Desk was very kind in offering us car service to our next stop!
The hotel is situated in an excellent downtown location and the views are spectacular if you upgrade to a "Statue view" room. The staff was very receptive to our needs and immediately fixed issues that were brought to their attention.
As a frequent traveler, I've stayed in many New York hotels and know that this hotel is not a very good value for the money. But if money is no object, then the Ritz Carlton Battery Park is the place to stay.
we love everything about this place! The staff at the bar and diningroom were fantastic, what great personalities!
Location! Location! Location!
Laura and rest if the staff from the front desk to resturant always makes my stay a pleasure. I have been staying at the Ritz BP since it opened and it has always been consistly great. Richard True
Expenissive WI-FI like the others hotel in NY
The staff at the Ritz Carleton hotel were extremely friendly and helpful. They took trouble to find out who we were and took trouble to make the stay as good as it could be.
There is nothing about this hotel that we didn't like.
Staff was extremely friendly - even talked to the kids. View from our room was amazing over looking lady liberty.
We enjoyed everything!
View is good
Breakfast is little ,just one option (americano breakfast ),area and lobby is very little
Location is great. Quiet, great view of statue of liberty, close to subway, walking distance to financial district and 911 Memorial
The restaurant is looking a bit tattered. The chairs are dirty and worn.
My husband and I loved everything about it, worth the money
great view of river.
I had hair in my food, at 2west. Room was dirty, food crumbs left on the desk bath room was not clean. House keeping just never did a great job. I got other services and the were very poor.
My wife and I really enjoyed our short stay and she is not easy to please
No complaints
We liked that the room had a view of the Statue of Liberty. It is far and quite small from our vantage point, but there was a simple and small Celestron to see it better.
In general, the hotel is just overrated :( The staff were advertising for upgrades and other services, but these weren't really appealing and were just taking up our time.
Location, service, style of room and also old decoration. Minibar was locked and the service of hotel was not as good as for Ritz Carlton
Great size of room. Good beds. Club level in Ritz Carlton is always a must! You can eat and drink and this will be an extension of your own room.
Battery Park on south Manhattan is a bit far away from the action. You need to take a lot of taxis or the subway to get to places.
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All offseason, we've heard that the Atlanta Braves would like to move on from current second baseman, Dan Uggla.
Their reasoning is pretty understandable considering Uggla, despite some impressive power numbers, has been relatively woeful elsewhere. Of course, moving Uggla and his contract wasn't expected to be easy but recent rumors surfaced suggesting Atlanta was in the market to obtain Dustin Ackley from the Seattle Mariners. Those reports have proven to be false though as according to Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports, the Atlanta Braves aren't looking for a second baseman and that the job is Uggla's to lose.
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Geological Technics Inc. is a consulting firm that assists other businesses in becoming environmentally responsible, but the Modesto-based company also demonstrates what a green business truly looks like through the management of their day-to-day operations.GTI recently made the decision to consolidate their business into one large office in order to both save money and conserve on resources. Furthermore, they made a conscious effort to promote reuse by ensuring that their office was stocked with refurbished furniture and equipment. GTI also streamlines company travel by strategically planning out meetings and worksite visits to minimize travel times and distances, gas expenditures and vehicle wear.According to GTIφs President Cher Kablanow-Tonge, these policies stem from the environmentally-sensitive concerns of the employees that make up the business. ±How you live your life effects how you run your business,½ she explains, ±If you bring your personal values to the business, it positively affects everyone.½Among those positively affected are GTIφs clients. By actively working to use resources in a responsible way, GTI has also managed to cut costs ≈ Kablanow-Tonge estimates that those savings are between 10 and 20 percent - and then pass those savings along to their clients. ±Because of our policies and the way we interact with our clients, we are in a much stronger position than our competitors,½ Kablanow-Tonge says.Kablanow-Tonge explains that most businesses can benefit from adopting these policies. ±We find that itφs not out of lack of caring that businesses donφt do this,½ she says, ±Itφs just that itφs not often thought of.½ Kablanow-Tonge hopes that by succeeding through conserving, GTI can inspire other to do the same."How you live your life effects how you run your business," she explains. "If you bring your personal values to the business, it positively affects everyone."
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Last month, I sat in a training session to learn the ABCs of transferring credits from one college to another. "Man," I remember thinking, "this is super complicated. What have I been telling people?" Well, beware if you are an adult returning to school after a long hiatus. I'm going to pass along what I learned:
1. Smile — you're on Candid Camera. Some people prefer not to claim all their old courses, as the lousy grades of their youth will sully their new GPA. Sadly, any school you enroll in now is likely to check the national clearinghouse to find all your past schools. You'll start out with the bad grades attached to any classes that get transferred.
2. Life experience can be turned into college credit. A number of institutions allow adult learners to morph their non-college experiences into credit. In most cases these credits will cost you in terms of essays, presentations and tuition.
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Sometime I refer to our garden as The Pit or That Series of Holes. It's all been done with good intentions but Moo Boy does have a bad case of 'Grand plans that I can start but may not have time to complete for a few years'-itus.
He does try but between working a ridiculous amount of hours, spending time with family & helping around the house he gets to a point where he needs a bit of time to himself & the plans go out the window. I can't dig up our garden for toffee (crap soil, huge slabs of clay & then all manner of crap underneath from what was demolished before our house was built) so it has to wait. It does allow D to get dressed as a pirate & go digging for treasure.
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I unlock the shed door with a reassuring clunk. It's as if I'd been smacked in the face – the smell. I don't know if it's mustiness, dampness or if something has crawled in there, pissed all over the place & (possibly) died but the plan changed to grab what you can & run. I grab at toys and fling them out the door. The Wee Man's face lights up. A good five or six months have passed since he's seen them & he greets them like old friends.
Job one – set up the 'car wash'. Funnily enough wee boys are easily pleased by a bucket full of warm soapy water & a sponge. With minimal help from me we had two slides, a rocking horse, a car & a freshly reassembled smart trike drying in the sun on a newly swept patio. Certainly kept him busy while I hung the washing. The Bod all this time was taking all this in from the comfort of his Ergo. A welcome distraction from the teething trauma.
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Is it possible for me to get a landline (second phone number) that has a different area code than my first? Or even to change primary? I live in 817 and need a 972 for possible employment from home. It cannot be VoIP, must be land line. Thanks much!!
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