Bookmarks
Sharing the resources Paul collects. Bookmarks can also be found at pinboard.in/u:unison
The 100 best corporate citizens
Friday, April 20, 2012 · Topics: corporate-responsibility, sustainability
From FastCompany: A new list of the most admirable companies has some curious additions, including oil and tobacco companies. Is there more to being a good business than not destroying people or the environment? · Go to The 100 best corporate citizens →
Google’s creative destruction
Friday, April 20, 2012 · Topics: startups, venture-capital
From FastCompany: Venture-capital firms have been the engine of the United States’ innovation economy. At Google Ventures, the search giant’s investing arm, Google thinks it can build a better one. · Go to Google’s creative destruction →
Leading in change and uncertainty
Friday, April 20, 2012 · Topics: leadership
From Forum Corporation: Maggie Walsh, Practice Lead for Forum’s Leadership Practice, explains the importance of adaptability in today’s uncertain world. While some leaders are naturally adaptable, Maggie shares some adaptability tips and tactics for those who aren’t. · Go to Leading in change and uncertainty →
10-step checklist for your next Website redesign
Friday, April 20, 2012 · Topics: redesign, web-design
From Hubspot: Every now and then your website needs a refresh. Radical redesigns are a great way to transform your site into a beautiful new butterfly. A redesign can be a huge success – or it could fail terribly. After all, it’s a long and tedious process. That’s where checklists can make your job a whole lot easier. Whether you’re working with an agency or redesigning in-house, this checklist will save you from some headaches. · Go to 10-step checklist for your next Website redesign →
Webby nominees for 2012
Friday, April 20, 2012 · Topics: interactive-marketing, mobile-design, web-design
Webby honorees, nominees and winners represent the best of the Web. They are but a small percentage of total entries and chosen by members of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. See them all here. · Go to Webby nominees for 2012 →
Show how, don’t tell what: A management style
Friday, April 13, 2012 · Topics: employee-engagement, leadership-styles, management
From Ryan Tomayko: One of the things I’m most excited about working at GitHub is the opportunity to take our time and think through organization and process problems from first principle instead of blindly copying other companies or adopting status quo approaches developed in the last century. We’re beholden to no one except the good people that pay us for our products and that gives us the freedom to build a company optimized for delivering the best experience – whatever it takes.
Last year, as GitHub began to grow rapidly, I was promoted to Director of Engineering. That makes me a manager of sorts. Gross, right? Actually, it’s turned out not to be very horrible at all. Like most things at GitHub, I was given complete control and encouraged and expected to define the role in whatever way made most sense to me. I want to share some of what I’ve come up with. · Go to Show how, don’t tell what: A management style →
Not just pretty: Building emotion into your websites
Friday, April 13, 2012 · Topics: design, emotions-in-advertising, web-design
From Smashing: Emotional design has become a powerful tool in creating exceptional user experiences for websites. However, emotions did not use to play such an important role on the Web. Actually, they did not use to play any role at all; rather, they were drowned by a flood of rational functionality and efficiency. · Go to Not just pretty: Building emotion into your websites →
Fanfare for the comma man
Friday, April 13, 2012 · Topics: grammar, writing, writing-reference
From Ben Yagoda in NY Times: Is it safe to talk about punctuation again? Eight years ago, Lynne Truss’s best-selling “Eats, Shoots & Leaves” took, in the words of her subtitle, a “Zero Tolerance Approach” to the subject. Although Truss’s focus on errors drew the ire, if not the fire, of grammarians, linguists and other “descriptivists,” her book was, for the most part, harmless and legitimate. Still, it overlooked a lot. Maybe more than any other element of writing, punctuation combines rules with issues of sound, preference and personal style. And as Truss didn’t adequately acknowledge, even the rules change over time. The two big players in the field are the period and the comma. I’ll start with the latter because the protocol for comma use is so complicated and contingent. · Go to Fanfare for the comma man →
