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BI & AI to Move Beyond the Static Infographic & Make Millions in the Process", "url": "https://dontmakemework.com/2017/04/04/civic-intelligence-how-news-organizations-can-use-bi-ai-to-move-beyond-the-static-infographic-make-millions-in-the-process/", "published_at": "2017-04-04T03:05:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c519-1b9a-73eb-8a7e-c2a031c7c0db", "title": "Banks leave millions on the table by not integrating psychology and education to help people buy, instead of renting, homes", "url": "https://dontmakemework.com/2017/03/22/banks-leave-billions-on-the-table-by-not-integrating-psychology-and-education-to-help-people-buy-instead-of-renting-homes/", "published_at": "2017-03-22T03:32:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c519-1b9a-73eb-8a7e-c2a031c9d90f", "title": "Best Buy Offers Free Warranty Service & Opportunity to Differentiate from Amazon but Instead Hides Service From Employees & Customers", "url": 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2026

Fido – Eating my own Dog Foodoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2026
The Data Center That Heats the Cityoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2026

2025

How a Republican governor turned California deep blue, and why Trump is about to do the same nationally.original ↗
24 Nov 2025
My Journey Sí Se Puede! by Silvestre Raymond Mireles PhDoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2025

2022

Rightsize Packaging to Eliminate Tens/Hundreds of Millions of Tons of C02 Annuallyoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2022

2021

Probability, Gay Pride, a Conservative Catholic Mom, Daughter Bonding & Painted Toesoriginal ↗
8 Oct 2021
Integrating Social Responsibility into Product Development: Recommendations on why it’s important and how to get startedoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2021
Personalizing the News: Lessons from 20 years of transforming data into personalized insights for voters, home buyers & Fortune 100 companiesoriginal ↗
12 May 2021
Minimum Viable Replacement: Why it’s critical to design & architect for the 1% when retiring legacy technologiesoriginal ↗
10 May 2021
How to improve your luck when it comes to finding jobs, dating, selling, etc., or why persistence is more important than preparednessoriginal ↗
28 Apr 2021
Minimum Viable Replacement: A new framework for retiring old productsoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2021
MLK Day Requires Uncomfortable Conversations & Actions, Not Just Platitudesoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2021

2020

The many Ps of emPloyment: Different perspectives to apply as you search for the perfect position.original ↗
20 Nov 2020
Surfing the Technami: Making Memphis the Leader in Inclusive Tech, Lifelong Learning and Automation Adoptionoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2020
Product Journalism: Moving beyond computer-assisted reporting to building public-service productsoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2020
Minimum Viable Replacement: A new approach to replacing old systemsoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2020

2018

Probability: Why good projects often go badoriginal ↗
23 Nov 2018
HIRE RAY GREEN NOW! Award-winning roboticist making sandwiches instead of building apps and robotsoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2018
Rabid Robot Kills Owner: Future cyber infections will turn our cuddly caretakers into automated killersoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2018
Seven Deadly Sins of Enterprise Software Development & What to do About Themoriginal ↗
13 Sept 2018
Getting Lost, Poison Ivy & Piranhas: Lessons in Innovationoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2018
Bravery, Sacrifice & Dignity in the Face of Death and Displacement: What I learned from my Lyft Driveroriginal ↗
18 Jun 2018
Customers are Like Spousesoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2018

2017

Getting Divorced After Four Years – From My Work Wife That is :)original ↗
13 Dec 2017
Diversity: What Makes Teams, FedEx and America Great!original ↗
30 Sept 2017
MVP versus MVR: Minimum Viable Product vs. Minimum Viable Replacementoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2017
Dear banks, Please Protect my Parents From Being Robbed by Con Menoriginal ↗
12 May 2017
Civic Intelligence: How news organizations can use BI & AI to Move Beyond the Static Infographic & Make Millions in the Processoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2017
Banks leave millions on the table by not integrating psychology and education to help people buy, instead of renting, homesoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2017
Best Buy Offers Free Warranty Service & Opportunity to Differentiate from Amazon but Instead Hides Service From Employees & Customersoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2017
Software Eats The News: Will Nextdoor Eat Local Media?original ↗
9 Mar 2017
Software is Eating the News: Are you in the in the Entertainment or Work business?original ↗
5 Feb 2017
Software is Eating the News: Chapter One of The New York Times 2020 reportoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2017
Software is Eating the World and Journalism too!original ↗
28 Jan 2017

2016

Alternate Reality Vehicles: Bringing Virtual & Augmented Reality to Technology Desertsoriginal ↗
27 Nov 2016
Event Calendars: A Key to Community Engagement & Winning the Content Warsoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2016
Naiveté Key to Starting any Projectoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2016

2015

News Organizations Enrage but Don’t Engageoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2015
I need a microwave now! So why doesn’t Best Buy let me filter products by what’s in their stores today?original ↗
21 Feb 2015
Gunfire: Same Sound, Different Meanings in Rural & Urban Americaoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2015
News Orgs: Six Simple Steps to Grow Your Latino & other Hyphenated-American Audiencesoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2015

2014

Dear Satya, Please fix your Microsoft Office 365 experienceoriginal ↗
28 Dec 2014
My Love Affair is Over :(original ↗
14 Dec 2014
Beyond the Article: Driving Political Engagement Instead of Confusionoriginal ↗
29 Nov 2014
Interactive Political Journalism as a Serviceoriginal ↗
29 Nov 2014
CA Investigation: Too Many Facts & Not Enough Design= Missed Opportunitiesoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2014
Enable Your Audience to Give Feedback to their Elected Officials From Your Siteoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2014
Wall Street Journal Crushes NY Times in Battle for my Family’s Hearts and Mindsoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2014
Protected: Make 2014 the year Memphis businesses and organizations embrace diversity as a key to successoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2014

2012

News Organizations: We want insights not just people’s opinionsoriginal ↗
5 Apr 2012
Green Fried Rice & a Shamrock Piñata on St. Patrick’s Day or Why I love America!original ↗
9 Mar 2012
Why Grassroutes.us Represents the Future of Civic Engagementoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2012

2011

Bad UX! Bad product management! Bad RIM! Or, why does my BlackBerry have a flashing light?original ↗
30 Dec 2011
Why I hate the term product manageroriginal ↗
26 Dec 2011
Are Your Users Idiots or are You? Product Development & Design for a Lazy Worldoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2011
30 Minutes a Day of tutoring Equals One Additional Year of School by 11th Gradeoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2011
Beyond Squares & Points: Using free-form shapes to search Google Maps and other applicationsoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2011
Teach Hacking in High Schools!original ↗
21 Jun 2011
Going in reverse: Hispanics disappearing in the Mireles householdoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2011

2010

Where’s the Map?original ↗
28 Dec 2010
Lies, damn lies and crime statistics: You can only trust the homicide stats!original ↗
15 Jun 2010
Talk and be killed: How a lack of a local witness protection program lets killers walk freeoriginal ↗
14 Jun 2010
Political Coverage: Moving from just reporting to providing civic engagement toolsoriginal ↗
31 May 2010
Business Lessons from the Land of Hard Knocksoriginal ↗
13 Feb 2010
Local News: Everything Fits, So Publish It Alloriginal ↗
11 Feb 2010

2009

Missing the boat: Reporting on cool sites and companies instead of partnering with them to deliver new and exciting servicesoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2009

2006

Partnering with Community Organization for local Contentoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2006
Private Label Video Services: Picking an Online Video Partneroriginal ↗
1 Sept 2006
Newspapers: Problem child or cash cow?original ↗
5 Aug 2006
Product Adoption: Lessons on how to maximize product adoption and avoid common pitfallsoriginal ↗
3 Aug 2006
Online Video & Newspapersoriginal ↗
3 Aug 2006
Eight steps to defining what goes into version 2.0 and beyond!original ↗
10 Jun 2006
Generating New Revenue and Readership from Old Archivesoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2006
User Experience 101: How to create a great online experienceoriginal ↗
4 May 2006

2005

My Top Ten Tips for Developing Successful Productsoriginal ↗
4 Jan 2005