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We've Moved to LinkedIn!

Started Aug 19

Moving to a new group service
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Anders Ramsay Aug 18.

US Agile/UX Retreat Planning
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We've Moved to LinkedIn!

We've decided not to pay the fees Ning will be charging starting tomorrow and instead move to a new LinkedIn Group Check us out at http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3315113 See you there!

August 19

John Tangney replied to Anders Ramsay's discussion 'Moving to a new group service'

Can never have too much Smackerel. Oh wait...

August 18

Dave Groff replied to Anders Ramsay's discussion 'Moving to a new group service'

Is passing the hat around a terrible idea? $240 per year doesn't seem like much, with so many members. My company would sponsor a month, if there was a note somewhere on the site that said "October sponsored by Smackerel. Mmmm Smackerel."

August 17

Vijay replied to Anders Ramsay's discussion 'Moving to a new group service'

Carol Smith has a point reg. Linkedin

August 17

Carol Smith replied to Anders Ramsay's discussion 'Moving to a new group service'

Another thought is to ask someone to sponsor the list. Allow them to put a logo on the site or a footer on discussions for 6 months or the full year. It does mean chasing sponsors, but you get to keep the history. I love LinkedIn, however, the 50…

August 17

Vijay replied to Anders Ramsay's discussion 'Moving to a new group service'

Linkedin is good. I will also recommend Google groups.

August 17

Harpal Singh replied to Anders Ramsay's discussion 'Moving to a new group service'

LinkedIn preferred as people can get to do other stuff there as well. Google groups, anyways, aren't fun to use. User experience matters for the product where we want to discuss experience. LinkedIn please.

August 17

Gustavo Gawry replied to Anders Ramsay's discussion 'Moving to a new group service'

What about Wordpress MU + BuddyPress? I've heard that there is a plugin that can import ning networks to buddypress

August 17

Tom Coleman replied to Anders Ramsay's discussion 'Moving to a new group service'

There's also Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/ and Yahoo Groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/ I have a similar group here: http://connect.humanfactors.com/group/agileux Cheers, Tom

August 17

Cesare Bottini replied to Anders Ramsay's discussion 'Moving to a new group service'

Like many other, I strongly suggest linkedin. Funny is, everyone I know who tried something different, is now on that platform.

August 17

Harpal Singh replied to Anders Ramsay's discussion 'Moving to a new group service'

Hey Anders LinkedIn is definitely a good idea. My only thought is that it would be more like starting afresh leaving everything behind in this space. I'm part of another Infographics group who has moved from Ning to something similar where they we…

August 17

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Moving to a new group service

Thanks all for your suggestions re. where to go following this Friday. Currently, the majority of those from which I heard back recommended LinkedIn. Learn more about LinkedIn Groups. To me, this seems the way to go. Does anyone know of a good re…

August 17

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Why Agile UX is Meaningless without an Agile Attitude

...and what to do about it. http://www.andersramsay.com/2010/06/29/why-agile-ux-is-meaningless-without-an-agile-attitude

June 29

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Agile and UX Coaching

A common challenge for many organizations is how to best leverage a small number of UX specialists across a large number of projects. UX Coaching is an emergent pattern that makes this possible, but does so in a highly Agile way. Full post: http://w…

May 1

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Agile Personas - and how they're different from old-skool personas

http://www.andersramsay.com/2010/04/12/agile-personas

April 12

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Agile UX at Lab49 (Hosted by Pivotal Labs) at PIvotal Labs, New York

March 3, 2010 from 6:30pm to 9pm

Join us for this "lab-themed" presentation and discussion with Lab49, hosted by Pivotal Labs NYC. Details at

February 18

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Why Agile UX is Meaningless without an Agile Attitude

...and what to do about it.

http://www.andersramsay.com/2010/06/29/why-agile-ux-is-meaningless-without-an-agile-attitude

Posted on June 29, 2010 at 9:29pm —

Agile and UX Coaching

Full post: http://www.andersramsay.com/2010/05/01/agile-and-ux-coaching

Posted on May 1, 2010 at 8:09am —

Agile Personas - and how they're different from old-skool personas

http://www.andersramsay.com/2010/04/12/agile-personas

Posted on April 12, 2010 at 2:29pm —

Notes from the Agile UX Retreat at Cooper

This last weekend, several leading thinkers in the Agile UX space met at Cooper in San Francisco to explore both the potential and the challenges of integrating these disciplines.

Here are some notes I posted on my blog about the event.

Posted on February 4, 2010 at 10:50am —

Why Agile Needs to Start in Academia

Just published a new blog post on why a key source of the Us/Them problem between Interaction and Graphic Designers and Software developers is the extent to which they are kept separate in academic institutions. http://is.gd/516fE

Would be curious to hear people's thoughts about it.

-Anders

Posted on November 22, 2009 at 12:06pm — 1 Comment

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At 11:26pm on July 28, 2009, Chris Pallé said…: Awesome work, Anders! Thanks for setting this up.

At 10:08pm on July 29, 2009, Chris Cavallucci said…: Will Evans uses Ning for the IXDA DC group. It seemed to work fine for the IXDA/IASummit ReDUX. We'll see... Thanks