RowHouse

SEO Insights Infographic

Had a prospective client who did not understand why their once heavily-trafficked, search engine optimized website no longer had the volume they were once used to. 

After an underlying e-commerce upgrade, they did everything right with their SEO changes: 301 redirect to more search engine friendly URLs; canonical tags for all their duplicate content; tighter coupling of the social media community; etc.

I created this infographic to help them understand what was really going on:

Social and Mobile Datasheets

Just completed a couple informative datasheets for our partnership with Intellicon. 

Some printable-visuals of our current progress.

 

Social Computing

http://www.scribd.com/doc/41942377/In-Tell-Icon-Solutions-Learning-Services

 

Mobile Media Design

http://www.scribd.com/doc/41942376/In-Tell-Icon-Mobile-Services

Announcing New: RowHouse Partnership Press Release

 

Expert Human Capital Management Services Company, Intellicon Solutions, Partners with RowHouse, Interactive Design Firm, for extended Digital Media Offering

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

San Francisco East Bay, CA, December 1, 2010 – Intellicon Solutions, an expert consulting services company for e-learning and learning management systems (LMS) announces their strategic partnership with RowHouse, to provide social computing and mobile development services for corporate learning platforms. 

This announcement further illustrates the importance new media channels, such as social and mobile, have on corporate learning initiatives across all business verticals.  “Without question we’ve seen learning maximized when experienced socially, and with mobility,” said Doug Mosher, COO and Co-founder of Intellicon Solutions.  “After much research, we chose RowHouse as our partner because of the company’s capabilities and reliable results.”

RowHouse’s Managing Partner, Chae J. Pak, also looks forward to the collaboration.

“Our highly experienced development team have an impressive track record in digital media strategy, design and development,” said Pak.  “These services combined with Intellicon’s who delivers a wide range of consulting services for learning, talent and performance management give clients a comprehensive solution with the consistency and continuity only a single technical provider could offer.”

Visit www.intelliconsol.com to learn more about our digital media solutions for e-learning and LMS.

About Intellicon Solutions

Intellicon Solutions is a software services and consulting provider—successfully delivering professional services for over 15 years. Intellicon Solutions is a privately held corporation, headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Intellicon’s application-expert consultants provide professional services throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. Intellicon Solutions serves clients ranging from Global 1000 to mid-market companies.  For more information, visit www.intelliconsol.com.

About RowHouse

Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, RowHouse is a Media Design Firm with relevant experience in social computing and mobile media solutions.  Founded in 2010 by social business software pioneer Chae J. Pak: RowHouse, with its unrivaled capabilities and domain insights, has quickly earned market acceptance with recognized brand names as clients.  For more information, visit www.alwaysonmedia.net.

 

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Mobile Design Methodology

Here is a infographic I created for a recent mobile app. development project.  Basically, it's some talking points that maps out our design methodology.

Is Your Website Mobile Ready?

Here are some tools to ensure your website is mobile ready:

Emulators

emulator.mtld.mobi/emulator.php

I like the visual (albeit the vertical scroll does not work very well), but it only provides an emulator for a Nokia N70 and a Sony Ericsson K750.  Here is a screenshot of my website (obviously not mobile ready):

 

A touchscreen emulator:

opera.com/mobile/demo

Probably one of the best emulators to test usability and sample flow.  Somewhat awkward from your actual mobile touchscreen, but gives a good-enough feel that you can make certain design decisions from:

Validators

Of course, there is one from the dotMobi family:

mobiready.com

Well rounded and detailed, not a huge fan of the emulator though:

The 'additional tests' section is useful and may indicate something that you have not considered yet - worth checking out.

One of my favorite resources:

validator.w3.org/mobile

W3C mobileOK Checker v1.4.2 has it all for a free resource:

Features:

• Scoring Overview, good for quick view and industry comparisons
• Page size and Network usage, a must-have for working within bandwidth limitations
• Detailed report, access to W3C's mobile basic standards
• Scripting, to ensure the right code is being analyzed

 

Other

Another service from dotMobi is Mowser:

mowser.com

Mowser converts the browser experience from PC to mobile.  For a quick glimpse, this site does a terrific job - nice n' neat stack.  The tip here is to view source, copy and save it locally, tweak it to visualize the possibilities (obviously some fundamental understanding of HTML and CSS is required), and then view the changes.

Startup Weekend, not a waste of time

Memolane is the winner of Startup Weekend Copenhagen 2010.

On 9/12/10, Memolane received $2M in Series A funding.

Congratulations!  Sounds like an exciting product.