Josue Sierra

This is a tough thing to do, I know.

How do you make progress when you are surrounded by people who have no interest in change?

You leave.

I find that many times progress comes not just from leaving something behind, but facing new challenges and interacting with different people each time you go someplace new.

Read a cool review on Amazon.com’s new remodel of their navigation bar via the [Iai-Members] email. Jay Fienberg points out a nice improvement on the amazon.com logo home page link — a simple idea that anyone can implement on their own website.

Amazon has a new top of the page navigation that has, imo, some nice improvements over what they’ve been using for the past couple years.

As has been typical with most changes in the Amazon UI, only some users get to see this new nav right now. But, Amazon has a “remodel”
overview page with a screenshot:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/events/gno/103-2180317-5339050

If you do see the new nav on regular Amazon pages, be sure to mouse- over the amazon.com logo / home link–I think it’s kinda-neat how they do the highlight state (the logo turns into a button with a faux hyperlink that says “homepage”).

Ironically, I was looking at the site for about 10 minutes before I actually noticed the new top of the page–the last few years have trained me to totally block-out the top of Amazon’s pages (as well as many of the other disorganized / strangely aligned feature zone

If anyone here on the list works at / for Amazon and is responsible for this: congrats! I know Amazon tends to manage its UI / user needs as a collection of autonomous fragments (each under the thumbs of the testing-metrics-bureaucracy), and it’s great to see a more cohesive design and set of changes being pulled together into a more unified communication / experience.

Jay
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>> as in
>>> Jay Fienberg
>>>> http://jayfienberg.com

For more reasons than one. But, among other things, I’ll be celebrating the joys of marriage with a good friend in NY. My wife and I will enjoy an early Fall drive up all across PA. I’ll try to take some pictures and post those up.

Everytime I go into SlideShare.net, I enjoy exploring the latest presentations. There is a wealth of knowledge and information in there from top minds.

Here is one I found today from Stephen Collins, a knowledge economy and knowledge work consultant, web strategist, information architect and social computing evangelist.

My presentation from the Office 2.0 Conference. It’s a discussion on the changing nature of knowledge workers and how their organisations can help them be better at their jobs and more productive.

Here is the Power Point via SlideShare.

I had the opportunity to present to a group of college students from Patrick Henry College at a weekend Leadership Institute Campaign School in Arlington. Great audience — very attentive and focused, with good questions all through out the hour 1/2.

Here is my power point, provided via SlideShare.net.

I’ve been real busy the last couple weeks, so here are my apologies for the lack of frequent posting. I have some homework to catch up on tonight, and I have a presentation to prepare for Saturday. I’ll be talking about using the Internet to help win political campaigns to a group of students from Patrick Henry College. Since I was a home schooled student, I’m looking forward to speaking to the group.

I’ll also be introducing the keynote speaker and sharing a few words at the NSHMBA scholarship Luncheon sponsored by Procter & Gamble at NSHMBA “Leading With Influence” Conference & Career Expo. Should be a great event.

Finaly, in November, I’ll be part of a panel discussion on the power of the Internet in journalism (they got my mug shot and info here). I’m excited because I’ll get to meet La Shawn Barber. You can learn about the whole list of great speakers here.