A bit of new media oriented discussion today. Smashing Magazine published an intriguing article last week about what it defines as best practices for effective “about” pages. The article starts off with a simple but powerful statement: The “about me”-page is one of the most overlooked pages in development and one of the highest ranked pages on many websites. They’re correct, next to the home page, Adaptistration’s “About” pages are the most popular but for years now, they haven’t been meeting their potential…
Internal Affairs
As Seen In…
A recent pair of posts from Bruce Hembd at horndogblog.com about his recent efforts into tracking where his content was popping up over the web got me thinking (and his findings are fascinating: here and here). It made me wonder how many times Adaptistration has been appearing (legitimately) in non-blog formats over the past several years. As it turns out, the list is humbling and it’s an honor to be used as a positive resource in such a diverse group of media outlets. My apologies to any outlet I may have inadvertently excluded…
The First Minute Of A Ten Thousand Hour Journey
Recently, I had the pleasure of talking to Joff Schmidt, Associate Producer of CBC Radio One’s Definitely Not The Opera (DNTO), about what it means to be a professional musician; or, more specifically, the difference between amateurs and professionals. You can almost smell the loaded questions with this topic, can’t you? Nonetheless, the discussion was great fun and the folks at DNTO ended up putting together a fascinating segment which you can listen to in the following audio clip…
There’s A New eBook In Town And It’s Free
Hot off the heels of the Reader Segmentation Study, it is time for the latest installment in the series of Adaptistration publications: The 2009 Readers Segmentation Study Report. The 28 page color report contains expanded material from the original series and if you have internet access while reading your copy you can take advantage of its special interactive features…
Readership Survey Results Part 3
The first two articles in this series examined reader demographics as well as media and culture habits along with blogging and online habits. This final article will examine how readers have been interacting with Adaptistration along with reviewing topic suggestions and which culture blogs, besides Adaptistration, respondents visit most frequently…