About this blog
This blog is for and about the web, the people that build it, the ideas behind it, the design that represents it, and the engineering that makes it tick.
This blog is created to serve as a bridge between web business, engineering, and user experience. To inspire and inform each side about the challenges, opportunities, problems, and solutions that will lead to better work with the others. To discuss teams, business models, ideas, success stories, intra- and entrepreneurial strategies and tactics, leadership, marketing and monetization techniques and much more for people working in the field and those who are trying to innovate.
Here are some of the topics you may often see covered:
- Web engineering best practices, innovation, and programming languages, learning guides, Do’s and Don’ts, solutions to common problems, useful code snippets, and more
- User Experience centered web development - web standards, accessibility, and the conversion of any web site from a page to a place that all users can truly engage in and return to
- Best practices in online marketing, findability, SEO, web advertising, blogging etc.
- Business models that apply to the Internet and potential new developments / ideas based on Web 2.0, Web 3.0, User Experience, Social Networking or any other trends coming with and ahead of the curve
- People and teams who build online work - teamwork, management, leadership, frequent issues, recruiting, and motivating the people who make it all work
- Intrapreneurship, Product Management and Development - ideas, strategies, and tactics for improving existing companies, services, or product lines and for the development of new ones
- Industry trends, IP Law and more..
If you enjoy these, feel free to subscribe.
I am not a fan of rumors and I am sure you do not care much about my lunch options, so those are two things you will NOT see on my blog - gossip about my employer or other companies and personal blogging.
About Diana Tarpanova Zink
I am a Technical Lead, supporting teams and setting standards of development across Turner’s CNN.com, CNNI, Sports Illustrated, NBA, NASCAR, PGA, PGA Tour and Cartoon Network.
In the past, I have had the pleasure of:
* Creating and managing a technology consulting practice for a Small Business Center.
* Leading process improvement efforts for a top UX consultancy while serving Fortune 1000 clients including Yahoo!, UPS, GM, COX and Emory University.
* Managing the marketing of an Inc 500 IT Risk Management leader, and the product development of its keynote SAAS product.
* Writing business plans that expand the revenue models of my employers by generating growth, balancing market flux, and introducing new products.
* Graduating College with Honors while delivering award winning applications for my Alma Matter’s web-marketing, fundraising, and recruiting efforts.
For more information about my background, feel free to look into my profile, or even better, to connect to me on LinkedIn ( e-mail web@dianazink.com ).
I am a proponent of Intrapreneurship, or the internal growth of organizations through innovation, best practices, knowledge management, product development, motivation, and empowerment. This is why I strive to keep abreast of not only the bleeding edge in web engineering, but also the strategy and business practices that convert research into winning ideas, robust processes, and solutions that fit both business and user needs.
In my free time, I enjoy spending time with family and feeding my addictions to books, people, web engineering & business.
For the curious, here are my technical specialties:
I strive to build results driven work, relying on usability, standards-compliant web development, and the synergistic application of technology. I work comfortably with best practices applied to: XHTML, XML, XSL, DOM, AJAX, CSS, JavaScript, ActionScript 1, 2 & 3, PHP, ASP.NET, JSP, SQL Flash, Flex, Air and more. Additional skills: Web Standards, Accessibility, 508 Compliance, Usability, SEO, OOP, Technical Designs, UML, CMSs, and modular, reusable, well documented code written for optimal performance.
Sit back, grab a cup of coffee and browse through, and if my thoughts have triggered a worthwhile idea or have helped you resolve a problem, let me know or feel free to link to this site, because I promise you more will be coming soon.
Diana Elsewhere
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Posted by: Diana Zink on Sunday, 27th Apr, 2008
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