by Stuart Ridgway, Original Music for Film and Television. You can see my presentation on this topic at the UXDC 2015 conference. This is Part Two in a series that identifies opportunities for improving the experience when working with open data. In Part One we established that there are at least two primary opportunities. In this … Continue reading Don’t Let Bad UX Kill Your Open Data – Part 2
by Stuart Ridgway, Original Music for Film and Television. You can see my presentation on this topic at the UXDC 2015 conference. Not much has been written about the user experience (UX) of working with open data. This is troublesome for those of use who work with open data everyday; we either provide a sub-optimal experience for our data customers or we suffer … Continue reading Don’t Let Bad UX Kill Your Open Data – Part 1
by Stuart Ridgway, Original Music for Film and Television. I originally ghost-wrote this article on the Hack for Change Web site on June 5, 2015. The National Day of Civic Hacking is not just an event, it’s a mindset that the International Trade Administration (ITA) fully supports. We too follow open data principles by making trade data easily available for … Continue reading Trade Data to help U.S. Companies Export
by Stuart Ridgway, Original Music for Film and Television In part one of this series I talk about the second hardest part of dumping my wallet: choosing what four items I could keep inside my iPhone case. Where Things Really Get Interesting The actual hardest part of making the switch was no longer having a place to keep … Continue reading Go Ahead! Dump Your Wallet and Live Out of Your Phone – Part 2
by Stuart Ridgway, Original Music for Film and Television I have been SO excited to write this article for a long time and now the time has come! Yes, come on. Dump your wallet. Live out of your phone! Almost. The digital revolution has not yet been fully realized in my jacket pocket but we're soooooo … Continue reading Go Ahead! Dump Your Wallet and Live Out of Your Phone – Part 1
by Stuart Ridgway, Original Music for Film and Television Is your brain whirring yet? In Part 1, I covered the many ways you can use your data to improve your customers’ experience and to connect with other companies that complement your offerings – all in the name of expanding your business. If you’re still not convinced, … Continue reading You’re Sitting on a Gold Mine – Part 2
by Stuart Ridgway, Original Music for Film and Television Yes, you really are. As a business owner, you rely on the information your company produces and manages to make ongoing decisions for the company. That information, in the form of raw data, is even more precious than you may think. Data is more than just an … Continue reading You’re Sitting on a Gold Mine – Part 1
by Stuart Ridgway, Original Music for Film and Television Starting a new job is not an unusual occurrence - it's just not. Lots of people are changing jobs these days, but getting situated takes time. I recently commented to my mom that it took me a year to get comfortable for each of my last two … Continue reading Shine in Your New Job
by Stuart Ridgway, Original Music for Film and Television Trying to lose weight fast? Want to get to the gym more? Is your commitment to your New Years resolution failing? While you're mulling over your sinking aspirations for 2014 you do have the opportunity to stop, breathe, and take in all that you have. And that’s … Continue reading The Secret to Making Your New Years Resolutions Stick
by Stuart Ridgway, Original Music for Film and Television These tunes may have slipped by you as you've listened to your favorite albums over the years, but pop artists do a sweet job incorporating reggae into their music, if only just a taste. These may not be Bob Marley, it's a long way from his … Continue reading 10 Pop Reggae Songs You Forgot That You Love
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