Zaana Howard

Knowledge Management, Leadership and Social Media

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On Social Media: We come from the knowledge management family rather than marketing – to enable social learning – recognising people learn most and best from conversing and sharing experiences with like minded others.

On Design: Design permeates everything and is laden with a history and a future.

On Leadership: Leadership in this environment of social media and knowledge management is all about recognising and respecting that everybody has a story.

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Inspiration: a journey through design

Many designers as we (in this industry, anyway) know them were born and bred out of computers and digital instrumentation. TED has delivered another dose of pure inspiration as we hear John Maeda in My journey in design, from tofu to RISD.  Now at the Rhode Island School of Design, Maeda became president in 2008 Maeda, and tells us his story as a tireless experimenter and creative innovator. It’s hard not to admire how Maeda looks at life and the world around him.

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Getting your Facebook group right name is important

Furthering my support for the return of the old Facebook, it seems “1,000,000 AGAINST THE NEW FACEBOOK LAYOUT!” (http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=27233634858) has a slight (only 9 million) discrepancy.

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What font are you?

I rarely participate in these types of online personality comparisons. But finding out what font I might be was too much to resist.

Recently Quit Your Day Job pointed me to Blogthings.com and their What Font Are You? poll after the author Lee discovered he was apparently Arial Black.

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New Facebook design and the loss of community control

One of my biggest fears is now very, very true:

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Facebook isn’t sexy

Seems I’m not the only one who doesn’t like the new Facebook design. Click here to read more »

August 08: Site Developments, Thank You

to write, muse, dream, strategise, and scream about social media and the online digital industry

If you’ve been following my blog for the past few weeks, you would have noticed a lot of change, not only in style, but in functionality. So I thought I’d take a minute to look back at what has been discussed and what is to come.

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Desktopgraphy: a desktop utopia

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