In my talk at the Burton Catalyst conference earlier this week on The Care and Feeding of Online Relationships, I presented a brief argument for specific requirements on relationship management solutions.
My appreciation of these requirements has deepened through conversations with Bob Blakley (who kindly invited me to speak in his track — Bob, you should blog more!), people involved in Project VRM and Internet2, customers, Sun colleagues, and others.
I’ve noticed that when I present on “everyday identity”, usability folk come out of the woodwork, excited that someone is talking about Don Norman’s work, human-centered design, HCI, and the like. Luckily I have a real expert like Jen McGinn to keep me honest… I think we’d all benefit from listening to usability experts more closely.
(The title of this post is taken from the lovely Flickr photo that I borrowed for the first slide. Thanks, hojusaram!)
Hi there!
Just a note of thanks for using/attributing my photo. I love seeing photos I’ve taken used in different places – don’t think I’ve had one in a presentation before! (Yay for Creative Commons!)
I was looking through your slides and have to say I really like the ideas about meaningful consent and of users setting policy for use of their information. (Seems a long way from today’s internet….I note that an email address is required for me to post a comment here! Ah well…I’ll use one of those avoidance strategies you referred to!)
Anyway – I hope your presentation went well.
Thanks so much for writing, and I’m glad you liked the context! I got several very positive remarks on the image, and was glad to point the praise your way.
Yay for CC indeed! In fact, I’ve been using Flickr’s CC-enabled search a lot lately for exactly this kind of usage, and a friend of mine has begun including links right in his slides for such “found photos”. I’m going to start doing the same.