Brandon Muramatsu

muraPOI: December 3, 2011

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So, I’m running behind. Who isn’t. I have a slew of other items to sort through for posting, hopefully I’ll catch up over the weekend. Enjoy.

  • How to Make an Impact During the First Month of Your Startup Job: Eric Stromberg positions this as how to make an impact during the first month and at a startup. I’d argue that this holds for all months at any job.

    • “Find new projects.” Keep looking for new stuff to do, that’s relevant, timely and impactful.
    • “Take ownership.”
    • “Be optimistic.”
    • “Don’t get stuck on the theoretical.” Amen. Do early, do often.
    • “Find out what hasn’t worked.” A few years ago I got interested in documenting “what went wrong” through some work of Erik Duval. Too bad I haven’t been able to keep up with it.
    • “Write down your opinions.” That’s what I’m doing here. :)

    (StartupDigest, December 2, 2011)

  • Here’s How People Look at Your Facebook Profile — Literally: Sarah Kessler writes about an eye tracking study of profile pages of popular social media sites. It’s hard to tell from the article and the images whether study participants only looked at one given profile page for each site and whether the profiles chosen were “good” or “representative” profiles. The findings are nevertheless interesting: people are drawn to photos, especially your profile photo and photos in recent content; people look at your networks; and people tend to look at content at the top of the page.

    (I’d link an image, but the gallery on the Mashable post shows that the images are Copyright, All Rights Reserved, Confidential and Prorietary. Oops.)

    (+O’Reilly Radar, November 30, 2011)

  • Subsets of Design: Logic behind Voodoo: King Siddarth writes about design types from Intention to User Experience.

    (StartupDigest, November 25, 2011)

  • The Five R’s of Engaging Millennial Students: Mary Bart summarizes a recent online seminar about engaging today’s students. What’s key: use research-based methods, make it relevant, provide rationales, be relaxed and provide a relaxed environment, and develop a rappaport.

    For more info see:
    Price, C. (2009). Why Don’t My Students Think I’m Groovy? The Teaching Professor, 23 (1), 7.
    Price, C. Five Strategies to Engage Today’s Students. Magna Online Seminar. 1 Nov. 2011.

    (Faculty Focus, November 16, 2011)

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