ContentDesk) August 13, 2005 -- It's the dog days of summer and there's no better time to bring out the mangiest mutts of Web design for some good, old-fashioned obedience training. NEOUPA kicks off the new 2005 NEO User Design Experience series with a fun event designed to provide advice on how to improve usable design.
EOUPA has assembled a panel of local experts who will provide feedback on your own examples of atrocious graphics, baffling content and mysterious page organization / site structures. Individuals who bring the biggest dogs will be rewarded. If you'd like a chance to win a free iPod Shuffle, a $50 gift certificate to Blue Point Grille, or a $25 gift certificate to Borders, here's what you need to do:* Register today at ...
Cleveland, OH (ContentDesk) November 2, 2005 -- eMergent Marketing, Clevelands fastest growing search engine marketing firm, is pleased to announce the addition of Jeff Pearl to the company. Jeff is the latest addition to eMergent Marketings pay-per-click marketing team, where he has taken on the role of Senior eMarketing Strategist. Prior to joining eMergent Marketing, Jeff held the role of eMarketing Manager for Progressive Insurance where he played a key role in the development of the companys online marketing channel.
Jeff for a number of years, and he is simply one of the best in the industry, noted Paul Elliott, the President of eMergent Marketing. It was a huge win for a company of our size to attract someone of his caliber. His experience and passion for the industry make ...
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ContentDesk) December 20, 2005 -- FIRM (OSE:FIRM), the world's leading software provider for Market Research and Enterprise Insight Management, today announced that client since 2002, Egg has renewed their Confirmit license agreement with FIRM. Egg utilizes Confirmit throughout several areas of their operations including product development, market research, customer satisfaction measurement and call center quality assurance."Egg has been using Confirmit for 3 years, managing customer experience across a range of products and touch points.
Mark Pearson, Head of Consumer Insight at Egg.Commenting on a recent product development and launch where Confirmit was an integral part of the project, Mark Pearson explained, "We didn't have 12 months to research and refine a new product idea. We had 5 weeks to take a concept to market.
Egg - Confirmit delivered."Egg was founded ...
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Just as the expectations of todays Web site visitors have grown increasingly sophisticated, so have the techniques of Web designers and usability professionals. Join The Northeast Ohio Usability Professionals Association (NEOUPA) on Thursday, November 17th for a panel discussion on how to best use Web design to improve customer experience and overall site performance. NEOUPA has assembled a seasoned panel of experts to address the latest user-centered design techniques, best practices, and emerging new media technologies.
Redesigners verses realigners: The difference between good and great"Transitioning from print to Web: Designing for users"Web design techniques and best practices: Site search, page graphics and flash"Harnessing the power of interactive multimedia: Strategies to improve communication & the user experience"The future of Web design, whats next? Meeting Time: 6:30 pm 8:30 ...
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ContentDesk) April 6, 2006 -- Jobster Inc. today announced a partnership with the DirectEmployers Association Inc, a nonprofit organization that operates the JobCentral National Employment Network. This partnership will aid in providing job seekers with access to millions of continuously updated job listings from all across the Web. Jobster.com visitors will now find job opportunities from more than 750 companies that are part of JobCentral. Over 70 percent of the jobs listed on JobCentral cannot be found on traditional Internet job-listing sites.
JobCentral visitors can now access all of the Jobster.com job listings found across the Web through JobCentrals Web search tool.DirectEmployers Association, a nonprofit, helps corporations increase their recruiting reach through online programs. The partnership represents the first step in Jobster and DirectEmployers working together to provide the most ...
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Solutions, a provider of usability products and services for corporate software developers, today announced the release of GUIguide 3.3. GUIguide provides a developer portal that can be accessed via the corporate intranet for knowledge capture, content management and delivery of usability knowledge for software development teams. GUIguide enables software development teams to realize highly usable applications while reducing the time and cost associated with traditional development efforts, and is being used in large organizations to facilitate agile design methods on large-scale projects.
Classic System Solutions to ensure more usable software applications. Some of these organizations include Progressive Insurance, Edward Jones, DHL, Prudential Securities, GMAC, Alltel, Peoplesoft, Sears, Bell Canada, Sybase, Boeing, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Lands' End, the U.S. Navy, and Zurich Insurance.
UIguide 3.3 offers world-leading user ...
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New York, NY (ContentDesk) May 11, 2006 -- FIRM, the worlds leading provider of software for Enterprise Feedback Management (EFM) and Market Research (MR), today announced the exciting release of Confirmit 10.5 on the companys ASP environments.
Confirmit Rapid Results, powering fast and easy conversion of attitudinal feedback into actionable insight. "Businesses ability to gain, maintain and improve their competitive edge is dependent on their ability to interpret and act on enterprise feedback," said Kjell ksendal, FIRMs Vice President of Marketing. "True Enterprise Feedback Management is about collecting and analyzing attitudinal data in a uniformed manner across the enterprise and driving that data into business processes, turning it into actionable insight.
Confirmit Kiosk and Confirmit Rapid Results, enables experiences and attitudes across the enterprise and in any context to be measured ...
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ContentDesk) July 7, 2005 -- Ford, General Motors, and many other Fortune 500 companies are getting their lunch eaten by foreign competitors. Within just the past two weeks, Ford has announced that it is cutting 5% of its salaried positions and General Motors revealed plans to scale back its workforce by 25,000 over the next three years. Most experts agree that U.S. companies must dramatically improve their ability to turn out high quality products that are desirable to consumers, but there is no agreement on how we can solve this growing problem.
U.S. corporations. "American executives are relying on grossly inadequate techniques to increase product quality, manufacturing/service efficiency, and selling effectiveness" says Charles Holland, author of Breakthrough Business Results with MVT: A Fast, Cost Free "Secret Weapon" for Boosting Sales, Cutting ...
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Series - "Site Organization"Where: Progressive Insurance - 6300 Wilson Mills Rd., Mayfield Village, OhioWhen: Thursday, September 22 from 6:30pm to 8:30pmCost: $20 for non-members, $15 for members, $10 for studentsWhy: The NEO User Design Experience Series offers area professionals the opportunity to interact with a distinguished panel of guest speakers each month this Fall."Site Organization" is the second in a four-part series of panels aimed at having an informative conversation about the topics and concepts that serve as the foundation to web site/software application construction.
Architecture is a discipline gaining momentum as companies come to understand the value of sound navigation/search, consistent page structure, and efficient content management systems. The September panel will discuss how they have organized user-friendly electronic information utilizing specific techniques while gathering a sound understanding of ...
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AJAX and Web2.0 technologies. These are the same techniques being used successfully on real projects by many of Classics Global 2000 clients. Implementing a successful and usable design process can mean the difference between success and failure in the coming years. Learn from the experts who have been delivering success in this field for over a decade.Experts from Classic will show students how to apply a proven process for identifying true user requirements, developing and validating conceptual models, and creating visual design patterns that are highly usable.
