http://ak.kemplergroup.com Adam Kempler Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:54:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm moving my blog to http://adamkempler.com Update your feeds. Sorry for the trouble. http://ak.kemplergroup.com/2008/11/14/moving-my-blog/ A recurring pattern I encounter frequently when developing community oriented sites is whether to make certain user-contributed content public or private. Often the end-user has the option of making their content public or private and the system defaults to one or other. The client almost always votes for private as the ... http://ak.kemplergroup.com/2006/02/19/public-versus-private-content-a-recurring-pattern/ My wife's Valentine's day gift is a subversion repository. She's a writer and like many of the writers I know, rarely backs anything up, preferring to believe that the Great God of Writers will protect her and her work from harm. While I live in fear that the next time ... http://ak.kemplergroup.com/2006/02/14/a-subversion-repository-for-my-wife/ I was setting up a new Wordpress blog and was trying to decide what format to use for my urls (permalinks). I opted for a format like:http://www.mysite.com/blog/archives/123I thought that this would be easier on the eyes than having the post title in the url:http://www.mysite.com/blog/archives/some-post-by-meHowever, I was just found a post ... http://ak.kemplergroup.com/2006/01/31/website-urls/ I've usesd a lot of project management software and the key ingredient missing from all of them is a way to document and identify best practices for each of the projects. Clay Shirky says: The best way to learn something is when someone else figures it out and tells you: "Don't ... http://ak.kemplergroup.com/2006/01/22/project-management-best-practices/ Martin Leith has an extensive list of idea generation methods at www.ideagenerationmethods.com. Each method links to a page with additional information. Looks pretty interesting. I think this site would benefit tremendously if it were in a Wiki format. Users could provide additional information on each of the methods such as ... http://ak.kemplergroup.com/2005/08/31/idea-generation-methods/ I caught this snippet on Robert Scoble's blog and it made me stop and think. Scoble: I've seen this behavior before... As a web developer and marketer building web sites for clients one of the golden rules had always been "Make it sticky". Content, functionality, and navigation were always designed ... http://ak.kemplergroup.com/2005/08/28/sticky-sites-are-now-dirty/ 10 Steps to a Hugely Successful Web 2.0 Company is a nice reminder of some important points to keep in mind when developing and running a Web company. #10 made me go back and revisit all the competition for my own soon to be released product. I fell prey to too ... http://ak.kemplergroup.com/2005/08/27/this-is-going-to-be-big-10-steps-to-a-hugely-successful-web-20-company/ I've been seeing a lot of posts lately about how some big name companies just don't get blogging and bloggers. Companies such as Dell and Apple have had their share of grief at the hands of bloggers. Yesterday I came across a company that does get it. I blogged about ... http://ak.kemplergroup.com/2005/08/25/sightspeed-gets-it/ Getting ready for my move, I decided to setup a web-based tool to document information and links. The tool will be maintained by my wife and myself. I went through my usual brain spasms - what technology should I use - Wiki, Blog, or some other CMS tool. If it ... http://ak.kemplergroup.com/2004/08/15/the-problem-with-wikis/