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What's New:
10-15-01 I'm beta testing a new web publishing product called, "CityDesk" from Fog Creek Software. See more:
930-01 I'm using new tool called Surfsaver to scan for interesting articles for my beach page. To see how go here on my Architecture page.
7-2-01 Added my new website about the Atlanta City elections for 2001.
6-24-01 Added link to Adam Bosworth interview on XML.
6-18-2001 We moved to a new host: tk-jk.net and you are here.
6-15-01 I'm working on a new website for a non-profit and I've added to my case study about non-profit sites. It has my favorite of Tom's pictures.
5-25-01 Added to the school websites case:
•Organizing a web team
•There is a model for your web team
•Barriers to keeping-it-going: one-person-show, transience, succession, burnout, techno phobia, web have-nots. and the enthusiasm gap
5-22-01 Added a new case study: Small, nonprofit organization website issues. Updated After looking at 800 school websites. case study.
5-14-01 Update After looking at 800 school websites. I'm up to 1000 now.
5-4-01
Added to After looking at 800 school websites.
4-30-01
New case study about school web sites: After looking at 800 school websites. This is work in progress.
4-24-01
New case study about usability, A $400 website
4-18-01
New case study about usability, Collect, Compare, Choose. I didn't write this but it rang a bell for me.
4-6-01
New case study, The $20,000 e-commerce website.
3-30-01
Added my next website for community building:
Grady's School Webmasters' Forum
3-23-01
New case study, marketing open source and Webex meetings.
3-11-01
New case study: How do you talk to a suit.
3-9-01
Typo correction
2-28-01
Added glassdog.com to the Learn page.
2-20-01 Added my next website,
KearnsSouth.
2-7-01 Added new Case. Scoping expectations for a small website.
2-2-01 Split my website page in to 4 pages so that it is easier to use and manage. Got to use more of Tom's pictures.
1-31-01 Improved the "Websites" page by documenting my humble computer gear.
1-23-01 Added new Case study.
1-16-00 Added my one-page resume.
12-8-00 Added first case study.
12-7-00 Tweaked resume.
11-30-00 Added Tom Ferguson's great pictures.
11-28-00 Made Resume and Field Guide downloadable. Corrected some errors.
11-27-00 Created this website. |
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Home
Welcome to my personal web page. I think
you'll find this site about my web
services more fun. It has a bio and
picture . The gateway to all my
stuff is at tk-jk.net . Have a look at my life partner's (wife) site too. She's nice.
What's here?
Resume This is probably more than you want to know about my work.
Infrastructure Field Guide and Infrastructure Legend These simple forms will help you analyze the fundamentals of any computing project. They represent the "blocking and tackling" of infrastructure planning. If you don't get this right, you will not get the system you thought. You need business knowledge and technical knowledge to complete them. You can fill out the business part. You make sure your IT department, vendor, or consultant completes the technical part. If I can help, please contact me.
My websites
Architecture lists the hardware and software I used to produce this page.
Learn is a list of my favorite resources about web publishing.
Case Studies I've documented some thoughts about a few websites, companies, and processes.
Here are the latest 5:
Case 13 - Using the web for Atlanta's 2001 elections
November 7, 2001
Case 12 - Beta testing CityDesk - my second site
November 6, 2001
Case 11 - Beta testing CityDesk - my first site
November 6, 2001
Case 10 - Continued - Small nonprofit site issues - what we finally did
October 31, 2001
Case 10 - Small, nonprofit organization website issues
June 15, 2001
Hire TK Go here to see if I can help you with professional services.
Contact TK Here is how to reach me.
Thanks for visiting and thanks to Tom Ferguson for the pictures.
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e-Philanthropy, Volunteerism, and Social Changemaking: A New Landscape of Resources, Issues, and Opportunities
This is a long winded but thoughtful analysis of the web and nonprofits by the
The W. K. Kellogg Foundation
The Twenty Most Critica Internet Security Vulnerabilities (Updated) The Experts’ Consensus
The SANS Institute, October 1, 2001
"On the Web, Small and Focused Pays Off" Business Week Online August 28, 2001
"Good Software Takes Ten Years. Get Used To It by Joel Spolsky
"Generation XML" is an interview with Adam Bosworth who discusses XML, SOAP, WDSL, n-tier architectures and why "The Answer" is so difficult.
" .. methods to leverage tacit knowledge often result in information junkyards and empty libraries." From 10 Critical Success Factors in Building Communities of Practice by Rihard McDermott, Ph.D. This is a shcolarly article
"As Internet technology advances, new things
become suddenly possible. Take content management. Just five years
ago, it was almost impossible to waste a million dollars building a
Web site. But modern, twenty-first century Internet technology means
that any medium-sized organization with Web ambitions can now pour a
seven-digit sum of money straight down the hole almost instantly."
by David
Walker (Australian tech journalist)
Don't Let the World Suffer from Your Website Too by Lars Pind.
Why Your Phone Company Hates DSL by Robert X. Cringely February 22, 2001
"After 50 years of bitter IT experiences it seems safe to say that any programming project is hard enough for a mediocre programmer to screw up." from Building an online community an online book from Arsdigita February 16, 2001
Buzzword Bingo Cards from Tom Davis
One-day Web Tools Course and One-evening course by Philip Greenspun from Arsdigita. February 3, 2001
Never Do This From Joel on Software. January 26, 2001.
The telephone has served us well for 100 years. It is time for it to go. from Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, January 7, 2001
Web via cell phone?: WAP Field Study Findings from Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, December 10, 2000: |
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