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Re: Celebrate failure

Daniel Shapiro — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:46:36 -0000

Hey Dave, Just wanted to let your readers know that they should let us know if they plan to be in Vegas. We'll be throwing some parties and Canadian gatherings. Let us know by emailing me or anyone on our team. daniel dot shapiro at microsoft dot com.. We'll make sure you hear about where the Canadians will be.

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Internet Marketing B — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:00:27 -0000

Very insightful video David!

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Colin Smillie — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:34:53 -0000

I hate that Cisco campaign, nothing like using a fairly mass media for a products that have a fairly small customer target. The trail between the video to the website to Cisco is also pretty long. 
 
At least the Nokia phone is a relatively mass market product.

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sean r moffitt — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:14:51 -0000

David, 
 
Thanks for the tout. To be clear, the rankings on the list so far are draft & we'll randomly seed next week when we have our full 128 bloggers in place and the first round will have 4 blogs run off against each other with one winner. 
 
I caught the note about Jevon's blog-let me know if you run across any others. 
 
Cheers, 
 
Sean

Re: Celebrate failure

Hannah — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:37:21 -0000

The older (and more experience) I get, my belief is that corporate cultures that strive for excellence and yet accommodate occasional failure give their teams permission to innovate without fear of reprisal. It produces stronger results in the end because it allows people to be creative. What a concept.

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Joe Clark — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 09:39:47 -0000

This sounds like an excellent time for you to quit.

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Vera Bass — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 09:01:27 -0000

“The value of failure isn't the failure itself. It's a culture that allows you to fail, and requires you to reflect and investigate the causes of the failure and to make the changes necessary to not repeat them.” True. I’d add that, for me, the changes we see in ourselves as a direct result of accepting and then getting right back up to try again, can be the most valuable thing of all. Vera

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Lynda Chiotti — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 10:02:57 -0000

I'm just back from UPA2007 in Austin, where Bill Buxton did a great keynote. Everything old is new in interesting ways. Bill started with Renaissance warship sketches. Can't wait to get into his book!

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davidcrow — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:15:08 -0000

Still in the 416 does not a <a href="http://barcamp.org/TorCamp" target="_blank">TorCamper</a> make. 
 
You could have come out to <a href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampTdot" target="_blank">BarCampTdot</a> and talked to the Mozilla guys and informed the <a href="http://radiantcore.com/" target="_blank">RadiantCore</a> gang about all of the pitfalls. We need to get you out to these events more regularly.

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Farhan Thawar — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:38:46 -0000

I guess you don't count my MSN search plugin (<a href="http://mycroft.mozdev.org/q..." target="_blank"><a href="http://mycroft.mozdev.org/q... " target="_blank"><a href="http://mycroft.mozdev.org/q..." target="_blank">http://mycroft.mozdev.org/q... </a>as Firefox dev? I'm still in the 416 dude...

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Mike McDerment — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 03:38:31 -0000

David, great to see you and thanks again for making it happen.by the way the wiki actually made it to 150 attendees.just awesome.

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Jevon — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:21:41 -0000

It's actually on College St. If you look up across the street, on you may see a cat sitting on a desk. That would be my place, and my desk. ;-) 
 
Once again, I can't be there. Which sucks, because you will all be close by this time!

Re: Celebrate failure

davidcrow — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 07:01:00 -0000

The plan for post DemoCamp drinks is to go to <a href="http://poguemahones.sites.t..." target="_blank">Pogue Mahones</a> at 777 Bay Street.

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John Philip Green — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 06:51:06 -0000

Malgosia & I will see you there. What's the plan for drinks afterwards?

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Estelle — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 05:29:43 -0000

Re Semacode and Bruce Sterling, I think you have a typo on your postiing today, they are spimes, not splimes. 
 
See you tomorrow night

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B. Naked — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 21:48:43 -0000

You sir, are a change catalyst. 
Plus, you have nice shoes.

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Donald Swain — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 10:11:32 -0000

I enjoy your site very much.

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Kevin Cheng — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:59:05 -0000

Wow, we must be really lacking for Canadian experts for my name to be there ;) 
 
Keep me in the loop on this. I'm not in the country (or continent) until June but after that, I may be there a fair amount of time and could perhaps help on the west coast.

Re: Celebrate failure

nkosi — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 01:09:31 -0000

As you have switched off your comments function for earlier posts, I am posting here. 
 
Regarding your CF CMS research in mid 2003. Has Farcry satisfied your requirements? or do you wish you had chosen one of the other products?? 
 
Cheers

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Matthew Milan — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 09:53:00 -0000

At an emotional level, I really like the idea of a Canadian UX-ish practitioner organization. That being said, I do have concerns as to how much utility another UX organization would bring. From the perspective of someone who's only become involved in UX in the last two years, my initial take on the Canadian (and Toronto) UX community was that it was pretty much non-existent. I realize now that's not the case, but I think my initial observation does open some interesting questions, including one that I consider to be rather important; namely what kind(s)of roles need to be filled by a UX community organization with a Canadian angle for it to be relevant both internally to its members and externally as a front for a community of practice? 
 
Your suggestion that organizations like AIfIA (soon to be IAI) seem have it right is bang-on in my opinion. As a member, you feel that IAI is working to support you on a whole bunch of different levels. 
 
What similar 'support' would entail in a Canadian context needs to be well defined, or at least better understood. For a Canada-centric UX organization to be successful it would have to provide some kind of added value above and beyond more generalized UX organizations and their local chapters. The discussion you and Jess had was very enlightening for me, but on relection it made me feel that the Canadian UX community is in a state of disconnect. 
 
I haven't really thought about a Canadian perspective on UX up to this point, but your post makes me feel that it's relevant, and neglected. Maybe a Canadian UX organzation wouldn't appeal to all UX professionals in Canada, but an organization doesn't have to have to be everything to everyone to be relevant. I'd personally settle for an organization that understands and realizes its mission, even on a very small scale.

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Dmitry Nekrasovski — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 11:15:04 -0000

I think this is a fantastic idea. Here in Vancouver, the SIGCHI chapter died for lack of interest and relevance, but there is now a non-denominational organization called VanUE (<a href="http://www.vanue.com" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.vanue.com</a>) " target="_blank"><a href="http://www.vanue.com</a>)" target="_blank">http://www.vanue.com</a>)</a> </a>that seems to try to be more inclusive. It's mainly a forum for presentations, though, and meeting people is difficult. 
 
I also noticed that all the "new communities" you mention are primarily virtual - could this have something to do with their non-competitive nature?

Re: Celebrate failure

Daniel Ponech — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:55:10 -0000

Dude, I feel your pain, I really do. You see, there was this thing, the Canadian Usability Summit Society, dedicated to addressing the very issues you raise. More than just usability, it was an organisation that aspired to be an open forum that helped break through the barriers that divided the fragmented, competitive user experience community in Toronto and beyond. It wanted to help move the community of which you speak beyond its current "Lord of the Flies" state into something, well, better. Alas, CUSS fell on hard times and we're left with things the way you describe. 
 
Still, I got nuthin' but love for ya, baby