Author Archives: WebSage

5 deadline sins of SharePoint in the Enterprise

Posted on November 14, 2011 by WebSage

Dux Raymond Sy presented a very informative webinar organized by O’Reilly on the “5 deadline sins of SharePoint in the Enterprise”. The topic is of interest to me because as I was discussing with my colleagues, our company is guilty of … Continue reading →

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How Can Website Optimization Help You?

Posted on August 17, 2010 by WebSage

Today I attended a fabulous session of the Web Managers Roundtable at AARP which featured a presentation by Dan Siroker, the former Director of Analytics for the Obama campaign, and co-founder of the A/B testing company Optimizely. As the group … Continue reading →

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New website for Slow Food DC

Posted on July 30, 2010 by WebSage

Today, after a very fruitful collaboration with a talented team of volunteers, I launched the newly redesigned website for Slow Food DC, which is the Washington, DC metropolitan area chapter of Slow Food. It’s mission is very worthwhile, “Supporting Good, … Continue reading →

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Getting closer to a universal semantic web

Posted on July 16, 2010 by WebSage

Back in 1999, when Tim Berners-Lee publushed his seminal book Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web, the references to the “The Semantic Web” were mostly to describe the original CERN information management … Continue reading →

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Books for my BI team

Posted on December 30, 2009 by WebSage

And here is a last minute addition to the reading list for my BI team. Clearly we are not cutting edge but getting there Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Programming (Pro-Developer) Expert SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (Programmer to … Continue reading →

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Reading list on SQL Server 2008 and Web Analytics 2.0

Posted on December 4, 2009 by WebSage

Here is a list of books I am to get for my team: Web Analytics 2.0: The Art of Online Accountability and Science of Customer Centricity Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services (Wrox Programmer to Programmer) Professional Microsoft SQL … Continue reading →

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Opting out of behavioral advertising

Posted on July 17, 2009 by WebSage

Today I was reading an article on NYTimes.com and noticed on the side a list of additional suggested reading for those interested in non-profit management, courtesy of LinkedIn. Of course this can be valuable but the fact that LinkedIn shares … Continue reading →

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CSS framework

Posted on December 12, 2008 by WebSage

Spend your time innovating, not replicating with the CSS Blueprint framework.

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Automatic anti-spam email encoder

Posted on November 7, 2008 by WebSage

A team member shared with me this wonderful encoder form which takes an email address and uses JavaScript to replace a mailto link with something usable for humans but disabling spam spiders: http://hivelogic.com/enkoder/form

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New site on spiritual education

Posted on August 1, 2008 by WebSage

Northern Virginia parents and children alike have a new valuable resource dedicated to spiritual education based on the Baha’i Writings: Spiritual-Education.net The site features a beautiful Sakura theme of WordPress and quotes Baha’u’llah’s famous words: “Regard man as a mine … Continue reading →

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