Tag Archives | collaboration

Summer 2011: Where I’m Going

On May 4, 2011 in Education, Improvement, Technology

I’m living in DC this summer, and plan to have the season be about work, growth, and learning. Time to be serious.

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MSB Write-Up on Me

On February 1, 2011 in Improvement, MSB

I’ve been featured in the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business’s Undergraduate Update for my work this past year. The article: Cooper Dukes Website & Workflow Solutions Cooper Dukes has founded a consulting firm targeting small business/nonprofit process development, website creation and development, and technology training. He became involved in this kind of work during [...]

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Comments on Access Usability

On November 21, 2010 in Education, Improvement, Technology

I found the user experience for Access appalling. One issue in particular that caused me hours of difficulty was the error messages. A typical error pop-up for Access follows a pattern along the lines of, “[The name of the field I just changed] has caused an error with [the name of the object was editing]. [...]

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TEDxYSE

On November 13, 2010 in Education, Improvement

I attended TEDxYSE today, and I’m finding it hard not to criticize the event, for both its content and its implementation. Overall, I wouldn’t call it a waste of time, but I think it lacked a unifying, examined vision for what it wanted to convey. I expected to hear about design and technological solutions to big problems, but instead I feel like I got hit with more of the same.

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TripIt for Travel Planning

On November 4, 2010 in Technology, Travel

I’ve used TripIt to plan out my itinerary across the 20-something planes, dozen trains, and six countries I’ll be traveling in over the next several months. For me, the site breaks down like this: The Good Auto-imports my itinerary by allowing me to email them my flight receipts. So far, it’s worked with all the [...]

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