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ThinkVis Rewind

Martin — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:05:31 +0000

I’m looking forward to attending for the third time in March 2013. I previously attended in September 2009 and March 2010. Where you there too?

A couple of interesting posts from previous years:

60 Eureka Moments From Think Visibility 7

Link Building Lessons from Swiss Toni

Content Marketing – Beyond the Bullsh*t

A couple of link posts from previous conferences:

Think Visibility – September 2012

Think Visibility 7

Cheap Mac Dev Alternative?

Martin — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:10:09 +0000

Could this be a cheap development alternative to a MacbookPro?

Update: an interesting article covering the use of Chromebook for development - Reviewing the $250 Samsung Chromebook as a Developer

Facebook High Street Retail

Martin — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:30:29 +0000

Facebook Likes for High Street Retailers – 26 Feb 2013

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Instagrammery

Martin — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 14:20:51 +0000

Hello Trello

Martin — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 09:40:39 +0000

Trello is a simple, easy to use to do list. It assists with project planning and task management. Its very easy to quickly create, manage and complete a piece of work with Trello.

As a personal productivity tool its great, but it really comes into its own when used as part of a team. It’s simple to create an account and invite others to your Trello board. There is also another level of user management by creating an organization to assign users.

The Basics

The highest item is a board. A board contains cards. Cards can be flipped to show the details.

Workflow

The three default boards are called To Do, Doing and Done. Add your items to the To Do list. Get started on one of your tasks and move it to the Doing board. When it’s done, move it to the Done board. When all tasks are done, the board can be archived off. Simple.

As an item is being completed, the card can be flipped, with further details added. Comments can be added to keep track of progress. Checklists can be added. (This comes into its own when a card is used as a template and is copied between boards). Checklist items can easily be resorted.

Repeated Tasks

Create a card with a checklist for a task that needs to be repeated. This card can then be used as a template for copying and renaming tasks.

Voting

The voting feature is useful for deciding which tasks should appear on the To Do list. This allows collection of ideas with voting to encourage the best ideas to rise to the top.

Mobility

An iPhone app, Android app and mobile friendly web version are all available. Your mileage may vary. I found that the iPhone app version didn’t really allow to do the nice drag ‘n’ drop gestures of the desktop app. This proved more useful for checking progress on the go than for using.

How much?

From the web site: “Trello is free forever. We may add pay-only features in the future, but everything that’s free today will be free tomorrow and forever.”

Is it safe?

Trello is brought to you and supported by Fog Creek Software – a trusted company. The service hit 500,000 users in July 2012. All your data can be exported as JSON.

How secure?

It’s all done over HTPS/SSL. Login is possible using your Google Account.

So, how are you using Trello?

Think Visibility – September 2012

Martin — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 09:56:09 +0000

Think Visibility – 01 September 2012, Leeds – #thinkvis – compiled with Twitseek – Thinkvis - Lanyrd

Magento SEO Slides from ThinkVis Sept 2012

Probably the best social media campaign ever! http://t.co/XUi34QfK via @basvandenbeld at #thinkvis :)

Content Marketing – Beyond the Bullsh*t

Coolhunting: How To Predict The Future → Using Social Media Data Mining Techniques

10 YETIS TALK AT THINKVIS 2012 – SHIT MY SEO SAYS & ThinkVisibility September 2012 – Another Great SEO Conference

Is Google Afraid of the Big Bad Wolfram?

Power of Great Ideas

Think Visibility 2012: Building Online Communities on WordPress

Facebook Pics

Special Mention: DON’T TWEET THE BRIDE

WordPress Optimisation and Security

GeekedUp in Nottingham

Martin — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 08:10:09 +0000

Another great night at GeekUp Nottingham last night. Second one I’ve attended, first one I’ve seen through to the end.

A great session on Open Data with Nottingham City Council. Appropriately open in their discussion with the developer community as to the best way to progress. An interesting project to extend their data past the already superb Nottingham Insight project. Follow @nottsopendata for more updates. It’s inspired me to take another look at CartoDB which is a great mapping playground with some amazing recent projects on their blog.

Interesting retrospective on the running of GeekUp Nottingham. It sounds as though its struggling with usual Nottingham meetup problem – “where the hell is everyone!”

Great night, great community, great future. If you’re a Nottingham techie you should be part of it!