How to Make Your Next Video Conference Call Run Smoothly [Infographic]

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Who hasn’t been in the middle of a video conference call when all of a sudden, the video freezes?

Or the sound disappears?

Or a new person starts talking on the call and you have no idea who they are, because they didn’t introduce themselves?

I know it happens, because it happened to me again this week. Continue reading How to Make Your Next Video Conference Call Run Smoothly [Infographic]

How to Return to the Top of a Web Page

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While I was reading today’s Nielsen Norman Group’s article on back-to-top links design guidelines, it confirmed something I noticed when I recently conducted usability testing.

When usability testing participants were asked to return to the top of the page, the majority weren’t aware of the browser and operating system built-in options to get back to the top of the page. Continue reading How to Return to the Top of a Web Page

Celebrating Women in Technology: #WITBragDay

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Last week’s news of a 10-page memo against Google’s diversity efforts from a Google engineer sparked a lot of debate and backlash online in blog posts and social media.

And it got negative. Fast.

But one of the good things that came out of the discussion that I loved was the idea for women to promote their technology accomplishments using the hashtag #WITBragDay (Women in Technology Brag Day).Continue reading Celebrating Women in Technology: #WITBragDay