A more fulsome commentary?...

Another year, another 40 or so posts. Time for a brief reflection, perhaps?

I have been writing this blog for several years now. It started as a cathartic opportunity to write on topics that interest me largely for my own pleasure (see here for my list of favourites), but fairly swiftly developed into a method for sharing interesting resources and information with clients, colleagues and the casual observer - curation, I guess in the current jargon. By nature, this has meant that the entries have become shorter, often just a short comment and a link (Twitter-like, really though I hate to admit it ;-)).

 Earlier this week a casual observer, who by chance is also a rather smart cookie, complained that this means she has to go out and read the "primary source" too. My glib answer was "yup and a good thing too - read and reflect", but this, on reflection myself, was perhaps a little harsh; as such, I am going to try to get back to writing some more editorial/commentary.

So, in the tradition of my public new year's resolutions (see here), I will try to get out at least one commentary a month in parallel to my normal regular roundup/links collation.

As many bloggers will agree, this will, I fear, be more challenging than it sounds, but I will give it a go. Wish me luck!

- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone whilst waiting for a ride at Heathrow

Service Design Tools resource

http://www.servicedesigntools.org is a great set of nicely presented introductory tools for use in service design. For experienced CE professionals there is nothing really new here, but it has been put together beautifully and there are some good examples/case-studies that are always excellent food-of-thought!

Some great social media statistics

The imagery on visual.ly is getting a little homogeneous, but is still full of content. The graphic below contained sufficient statistics for me to consider it worth posting in full - it seems as a male pinterest user I am in the minority! On a more serious note though, if you ever needed any justification for getting moving on operationalising your company's social media strategy, look no further than these stats and what they mean for you and your competitiors in 2013.

Responsive design vs mobile sites

A short article on the decision (given limited resources) related to mobile optimised, responsive design based or app-based investment. Mobile first? I am not so sure, but the author has some valid points... http://econsultancy.com/uk/blog/11413-are-you-responsive-mobile-or-app-based?utm_medium=feeds&utm_source=blog

The Inconvenient Truth About SEO

A nice no-nonsense summary of a balanced approach to search-engine optimisation:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/12/11/seo-the-inconvenient-truth/

Gamification Myths: The Difference Between Game Design and Gamification

Good to see some self-reflection in the hyped gamification space! Multiple disciplines need to play a part for a success and "game design" is at best only one of these disciplines...

http://www.gamification.co/2012/12/13/the-difference-between-game-design-and-gamification/

OrgOrgChart: The Dynamic Organization of an Organization - information aesthetics

The stuff that HR dreams and managers nightmares are made of... either way an interesting representation of a developing organisation!

http://infosthetics.com/archives/2012/12/orgorgchart_the_dynamic_organization_of_an_organization.html