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Don’t conflate a user’s language choice, nationality, & current location

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Summary — Expecting users to select a national flag icon to choose a language, or cleverly detecting their computer’s language settings or current location and presuming either reflects their language preference is lazy thinking. I wish website designers would stop using nations’ flags to represent websites’ language. Countries are not monolingual — even if it’s … Read more

finding perpetual beta

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Harold Jarche — an international consultant and speaker, who helps people and businesses adapt to the network era — has been described as “a keen subversive of the last century’s management and education models”. Today Jarche launched the second in his perpetual beta series of eBooks: finding perpetual beta. When the writing is this clear … Read more

Mount Allison Faculty Association launches new site

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Tantramar Interactive Inc. is pleased to announce that as a follow-up to having designed the Mount Allison Faculty Association’s (now-retired) mafanegotiations.ca a year ago, that site’s design and content has been merged with the organization’s main site, mafa.ca. The newly-merged site has had a deep content reorganization and an HTML overhaul, bringing the fourteen-year-old site … Read more