UXnet community building

UXmatters publishes an article by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, John Ferrara and Louis Rosenfeld on the Local UXnet Ambassadors initiative. The article gives a deep insight on the work we Amassadors are doing, the way we’re doing and the problems we’re trying to solve (on the same subject you might want to give a look at the paper I co-authored for CHI2005).

The goal of the UXnet Local Ambassadors Initiative is to foster the growth of UX communities around the world and facilitate networking among them.

The article reports a small list of sidebars from Keith Instone, Pabini herself, Nick Finck and yours truly. It’s a great honour for me having my humble sidebar appearing side by side within such a cream of the crop stories.

Mobup on tour: first speech

Yesterday we were hosted by the wonderful people at the Milan Java User Group: the seminar room at the Mac shop was really crowded and I was pleased to see a couple of known faces among the public.

Our slides (available online) on the strategy, user experience and technical aspects on Mobup raised a lot of interest (we mobupped some photos while speaking), it’s always cool speaking to smart programmers who make smart questions and suggestion.

We’ve also been so lucky to be invited in another couple of Italian Java events (one of those is really HUGE), more on this in the time coming.