October 27th 2008
Eight years ago we saw online campaigning emerge. This year the current presidential election established the interactive channel as the decisive element in fundraising, organizing and getting the word out. Now, candidates and supporters appear ready to transform online political networks into an ongoing dialog that will be as integral to governing as it has […]
September 13th 2008
This morning at about 12:30am a series a failures occurred in our primary database. Over the next twelve hours, site functioning was restored by the efforts of our WordPress consultant, Michael D. Pollock of Solostream, and contributing author Brandon Lovested. Their troubleshooting, and support form AN hosting restored site functioning making this an interruption an […]
September 12th 2008
Useful Art’s host, Dave Wieneke, will be in Indianopolis September 24th to speak at ExactTarget’s national user conference. Want to know why I’m thrilled to be with 1,000 email marketers? These are the people who directly connect brands to people online. They provide the “push” in “push marketing”. The plan: show how to use customer […]
September 11th 2008
Blawg Review #176 is all about legal literacy. Its host, Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, put together a fantastic array of ways in which the law and literacy are in play. Our forum was recognized for its coverage of an effort to educate kids about copyright law with court-distributed materials that were shockingly in error about the application […]
July 8th 2008
Jonathan Frieden celebrated July 4th by giving this week’s Blawg Review a distinctly patriotic theme. His approach, “50 Stars of the Blawgosphere” recognizes an influential legal blog from each state, in the order it ratified the US Constitution. Thanks to John Adams, Massachusetts and our forum is sixth in line. I’m sure Thomas Paine had in mind persons like the […]
The future of digital experiences will be built by strategists who grasp the full array of emerging business, social, and technical models. Specialties in user experience, branding, application design, and data science are laying the foundation for richer user experiences and business models breakthrough products and revenue based marketing.
UsefulArts is a soapbox to discuss the front line of digital experience, and the agencies and platforms that enable it. Digital business needs a cadre of leaders who can connect c-level enterprise thinking with the ways these new interaction models can help organizations to matter more to their most important stakeholders.