Return on Intention

 Web Standards Primer [43:07m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Emily Lewis spoke on the first day of BarCamp Albuquerque about web standards and markup. Her presentation wasn’t in keynote or powerpoint but rather a small standards compliant website you can find here.

 Chris Kenworthy on Web Analytics, Heat Maps, A/B Testing [42:57m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Chris Kenworthy is the owner of the premier development site Dream In Code. Chris spoke at BarCamp Albuquerque this year about all the experience he has gained from launching and bringing Dram in Code to profitability.  Chris says that to get real results from a website you need to pay attention to the numbers. In this talk he goes over Web Analytics, Heat Maps and A/B Testing.

As it turns out, I believe that Chris is now offering his expertise to clients as a consultant.

 ROI - Frank LaFond at BarCamp Albuquerque 3 - Technical Debt [25:28m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Frank LaFond knows more about QA than anyone I’ve met. This year was Franks second appearance at BarCamp Albuquerque, he spoke last year on testing. This year he talks about technical debt and the trade offs that companies must make between building their technical assets and the temptation of quick profits.

Running time is 25:27.

 ROI podcast - Rich Murray at Albuquerque BarCamp 3 [42:02m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This audio file is Rich Murray at Albuquerque BarCamp 3 with his presentation entitled “future causality aspects of exponential social evolution: joint exploration of subtle features in Hubble Ultra Deep Field”.

Rich was the first presenter at BarCamp this year, and while he isn’t a web developer or designer, he is using the internet to further his exploration of Deep Space and the images released to the public from he Hubble telescope. The audio runs 42 minutes and 02 seconds.

 ROI 10 - The Wii the people episode: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Running Time: 43:08
- 00:32 Intro for Brian Warren
- 01:52 The Wii, the thing you can’t stop talking about
- 03:26 Wii shoots for 3rd and wins
- 07:32 The long tail
- 09:13 Voodoo pad – serve your niche
- 12:14 Think small
- 15:07 Find passion, find support for the rest of your offering
- 23:34 What you measure is what you do, watch your marketshare
- 25:54 Play to your values, core competency and economic engine
- 30:41 Understand your Economic Engine

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 ROI 9 - The Murky Water Episode: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Running Time: 37:39
- 00:28 Intro for Mitch Joel
- 01:08 Our History of the Value Based Billing Conversation
- 02:25 The blog has moved to http://www.reidgivens.com
- 02:43 Audio Comment from David Levy
- 05:53 Too Cheap to Pay the Full Rate or Need a Partner
- 07:33 What is success?
- 08:05 What can you control?
- 08:56 Define the scope
- 09:43 Is it someone elses passion?
- 11:26 Can Value Based Billing work?
- 17:30 Value Based Billing, why is it attractive?
- 22:00 Have we seen this model in life?
- 25:29 Where did this idea come from?
- 33:02 Track assumptions and see how it stacks up against the way you do it now

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 Method Arts Sprint - Brian Warren [9:14m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Brian Warren wasn’t able to be present at the first sprint podcast, so here are his thoughts on the sprint.

Check out Method Arts for more details.