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Monthly Archives: February 2009

Immediate, Iterative Changes

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Once you have your platform settled, one of the beauties of online product management is you can make iterative changes fairly quickly that can help users.
For instance, on our recent thatsracin.com launch:

Brought out no. of comments & recommendations to our rail A stories
Made the statistics/weather area area able to be shown/hidden based on [...]

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ThatsRacin.com v3 Released Today

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As those who have heard me speak publicly about what I do at The Charlotte Observer know, I defer all editorial discussion to our newsroom — in this case, the editor of thatsracin.com, Bob Henry. He will have his own notes about the journalistic mission/direction for the product.
This post is about the [...]

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Project vs. Product Management

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More often lately, I see the word “project” and “product” management used interchangeably when describing a function within an organization.
These roles are very different.
The easier way to remember this is to look at the words and their true definitions. A project is an undertaking that has a beginning, an end, and tasks that get [...]

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Personal Productivity - iPhone Apps

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This must be the week of productivity for the iPhone. I’ve been asked several times this week for list of iPhone productivity apps I use, most recently in a comment I made in response to an only slightly-related thread.
So before we get back to product stuff — which I have a post coming soon [...]

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