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Karlyn Morissette

marketing strategist, higher ed web geek, speaker, consultant, MBA, ferret lover

Entries for October, 2008

Live blogging Head: Ask a Copywriter

Speaker: Relly Annett-Baker
She wants to do a longer, extended Q&A sessions rather than an actual presentation.
Q: When do you need a copywriter in?  
If you’re good at writing, you don’t necessarily need to.  If you have more stuff to write than you can mange, than you might. If you have content but its not explaining [...]

Live blogging the Head Conference

So a friend of mine who’s presenting at the <head> conference hooked me up with a free ticket.  I had been minorly intrigued about the event, but could never quite figure out what it was (and emails to the conference people went unanswered).  But free is free, so I decided to check it out.  I’m [...]

Live blogging Head: Educating the Unwashed Masses

Speaker: Chris Mills
Doesn’t everyone use Web Standards? 
A lot of time when we talk about standards, we’re preaching to the converted.  The fact is that loads of web developers don’t care about standards, or implement them incorrectly.  Most of the web does not validate.  Rate of validation has improved, but it isn’t as good as it [...]

Live blogging Head: Facing up to Fonts

Speaker: Richard Rutter
Yay audio problems again!  Poor conference organizers.
Obviously, pages have to be rendered using the fonts on your readers computer.  These are on everyone’s machines: 

Times New Roman
Arial
Georgia
Verdana
Trebuchet
Impact
Courier New
Andale Mono
Comic Sans!

These ship with Vista: 

Calibri
Cambria
Candara
Constantia
Corbel

A whole bunch more common to Mac and PC office, including: 

Century Gothic
Lucida Bright
Rockwell
Book Antiqua
Garamond
Bell
Gill Sans
Cooper Black

Go to icanhaz.com/fontmatrix for a really long [...]

Live blogging Head: YouTube lessons learned

Geoff Searns is up to talk about YouTube.  There’s like two people in his live audience.  Audio is going in and out.  Ugh. 
The Problem: 

Create a video player that is capable of seving hundreds of millions of video playbacks every day.
It needs to be easy for many developers to ork on the code
There should be an [...]

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