Canucks Social Powered By Work at Play's DEQQ Platform

April 16, 2010 - Jesse Korzan

Except for one stubborn Habs fan, the Work at Play crew are huge fans of The Vancouver Canucks.

Naturally, we were elated when they approached us to work with them and run a bit of a social media "experiment" a couple of months ago.

Be our guest - Lunch & Learn, April 13th

April 06, 2010 - Russell Barnes

What?

Work at Play and Appnovation have teamed up to bring you a lunch & learn session with the lovely folks from Alfresco, the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management.

What is user engagement anyway? (Part 1)

February 22, 2010 - Jordan Willms

One of the most valuable services we offer our clients is the ability to increase user engagement with their brand digitally.

However, what we have learned from our clients is that they do not all share a holistic view on exactly what “user engagement” means, or how to measure it. For example, are Pageviews or Unique visitors good indicators of an engaged audience? Or is it something softer?

FIX CS4 Crash on Launch – Error 150:30

November 08, 2009 - Jesse Korzan

CS4 Crashing on Launch?

Slowly starting to migrate to CS4, started with Flash and then Photoshop ended the party.

Every attempt to fire up a CS4 product after installing Photoshop, I got this dreaded licensing issue... ERROR 150:30

W@P Asks: The Wireless Web

November 03, 2009 - Jordan Willms

The Iphone has been a great catalyst for surging forward the relevance and importance of mobile devices in North America. Until its release, other phones "could" surf the web, but the quality was very sub-par. In short, they sucked. Now all mobile vendors are packing their devices with rich browsers, making web on mobile an agreeable and almost pleasant experience. And so the dawn of the mobile web is upon us, where consumers nomadically interact with the web, truly experiencing your brand when and where they want.

Summary: 2009 Tribalization of Business Study

October 23, 2009 - Jordan Willms

Beeline Labs, Deloitte's Media & Tech practice, and the Society New Communications Research, recently released their 2009 Tribalization of Business Study which "evaluates the perceived benefits of online communities and identifies how enterprises believe they may better leverage them." In non-corporate speak the study is really all about using online tools for user engagement. Survey respondents included over 400 companies, including Fortune 100 organizations. The underlying tone of the study is that organizations are still under utilizing social media, and not unleashing its full potential.

Brainstorming "Rules" and Best Practices @ Work at Play

October 23, 2009 - Jordan Willms

Work at Play is an amazing place. Rarely do you see such an interdisciplinary blend of strategists, designers and technologists working so well together. Part of what I believe makes us successful is our "Rules" of brainstorming". It goes without saying that before you jump into a brainstorming session, the issue to address in the session needs to be clearly articulated and communicated to all parties.

Double take on user experience

October 23, 2009 - Lorraine

A few weeks back I was casually visiting my brother, and we got to talking about email. He'd just finished off his Master's Degree in Leadership, a program he completed about 80% online in a distance learning program. Alex's thesis on leadership in community gardening involved a lot of interchange with his adviser over the internet. He's a very social guy, and reasonably technically savvy. He has a problem. Turns out that with his email completed he was going to need another email account because the university account would eventually expire. He does have email for his day job, but he needs a personal one. I offer a simple solution... why don't you sign up for a gmail account? This is when he says, "I NEVER sign up for anything online".

How to Convince Your Boss that Drupal is Better than Proprietary CMS?

September 24, 2009 - Jordan Willms

In large organizations, convincing your boss or department or project to use Drupal can sometimes be met with resistance. This following table has been instrumental in convincing decision makers regarding why Drupal (and by extension open source) is leaps and bounds better than proprietary content management systems (CMSs).

Friday Link Bomb

August 07, 2009 - Jesse Korzan

The end of my Friday is usually sorting through open browser tabs, bookmarks, Twitter favorites and scribbled URLs in my notebooks. Thought I'd drop a Friday afternoon link bomb for our Work at Play fans of a few things that grabbed my attention this week.