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January 23, 2008
CV
Expertise
Strategy and tactical implementation:
* Building user centric systems through iterative development, with user research in close proximity to engineering.
** Usability assessment of online systems and community sites including heuristics, needs assessment, user testing -- both qualitative and quantitative.
** Interaction design and information architecture for networked communities and systems.
** Building values into systems that meet multiple and diverse participant needs.
* Search systems and algorithms which reflect user understanding of data, particularly live web data published from video, photo and news and blog systems.
* Classification systems combining top down taxonomies with bottom up folksonomy data.
* Online communities building with tools including blogs, wikis, forums, Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, and many others, for transparency, communication, and conversation.
Work projects (notable):
* SWIFT DAG infrastructure system for exchange of personal and private data
* Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium (privacy advocacy in the form of written submission to govt agencies and other papers)
* Maestro, a speaker and journalist source site
* Dynno, a video transmission system for gamers
* AllVoices.com (a blog search system and news discovery and community site)
* Dabble.com (a video search system built with structured data to allow users to discover video surfaced by others around the web).
* Rojo.com (a blog search system and news discovery site)
* Technorati.com (a blog search system built with spidered data and structured data when available to surface blog posts and topic bloggers to searchers)
* Paparazzi, a threaded conversation and semantic association system for online conversation
Posted by Mary Hodder at January 23, 2008 10:19 AM