Nathan Verrill
Enterprise Social Software On the Frontlines: Do You Use It?
As indicated by Forrester Research’s upcoming teleconference, The State Of Collaboration And Social Software Adoption: 2010, management continues to spend money on social software in the hopes of increased collaboration between workers spread across the globe.
Contrast that with my experience, working on internal web projects in healthcare, finance and utilities, that few people on [...]
My dad’s new website - Advice, assistance and consultation for small museums: http://practicalmattersformuseums.com/
My dad’s new website - Advice, assistance and consultation for small museums: http://practicalmattersformuseums.com/
Using Game Mechanics to Get Parents to Watch Test Orientation Videos
I just got done watching six orientation videos for my 4th grader’s upcoming standardized test, which cleverly used game mechanics (perhaps unbeknownst to the school, Keysor Elementary) to make sure we watched them.
You Don’t Need Virtual Worlds When You Can Game Reality
Don’t get me wrong: Virtual worlds can be awesome, and escaping into a good video game is a wonderful thing, and profitable too — just look at the billions of dollars generated by World of Warcraft, Wii/360/PS3 consoles and Zynga Facebook games like Farmville. And the time will come when these games and virtual worlds [...]
Natron Baxter not Nathan Baxter - a prospective client recently Googled “Nathan Baxter” and found some, ahem, strange results. Their search is understandable; hopefully this post resolves it…
Natron Baxter not Nathan Baxter - a prospective client recently Googled “Nathan Baxter” and found some, ahem, strange results. Their search is understandable; hopefully this post resolves it…
Go Daddy IIS doesn’t work with NING - images don’t always display and open social doesn’t always work. Rackspace cloud iis works fine.
Go Daddy IIS doesn’t work with NING - images don’t always display and open social doesn’t always work. Rackspace cloud iis works fine.
White Collar war criminals - who would get your vote?
White Collar war criminals - who would get your vote?
US forces should put crash test dummies in MRAPs in the field with troops to study, design for, and counteract the effects of IEDs.
US forces should put crash test dummies in MRAPs in the field with troops to study, design for, and counteract the effects of IEDs.
Mom’s Chesapeake Bay Crab Cakes
Crab cakes are best kept simple. No filler. No extra spices.
This is my mom’s recipe, which I tweaked just a bit by using panko instead of breadcrumbs.
For the crab meat, ideally we would have picked the crabs on the back porch, steamed crabs, shells and guts piled high on newspaper, the smell of [...]
Massively Multiplayer Workforce: Natron Baxter’s Take on Reeves & Reads’ Book “Total Engagement”
I’m stoked about the publication of Total Engagement: Using Games and Virtual Worlds to Change the Way People Work and Businesses Compete (companion website here) by Byron Reeves and J. Leighton Read. My excitement is twofold: first, the authors lend additional credibility to using games within a business environment; and second, the book presents an [...]
