Seoul saw the heaviest snowfall in recorded history today. Make you realize how short “recorded history” actually is. We got about 24-25cm of snow.
Tried for a couple of hours to make it to work on this first working day of 2010, but public transportation was a mess. Gave up after a couple of hours and took the day off to take picture and have fun with the kids.
On November 20, 2009 I made a presentation at ChangeON, a conference focusing on non-profits internet media, hosted by the Daum Foundation, the charitable arm of the Korean internet portal, Daum Communications. They just posted the video online.
My presentation (in Korean) was entitled “UX for Good”, focussing on how internet technologies and social media benefit non-profits, with 4 stories to illustrate how some non-profit organizations in the US are using the internet to their advantage.
The examples include:
CARMA.org, a site dedicated to monitoring carbon emissions from power plants and providing citizens with tools to take action.
Ask Your Lawmaker where users can post questions they want to ask lawmakers, visits vote on the question and reporters get the answers and post it back to the site.
DonorsChoose.org connecting classrooms in need of small funding for activities with donors across the US.
Ashoka’s Changemakers, global, open-sourced competition site which taps the community of social entrepreneurs to generate ideas for social change.
These are all work I was either directly involved in or made aware of when I was at Forum One Communications in Washington D.C.
Also check out all the other great presentations at the ChangeON conference (in Korean). Especially inspiring where the presentations by Jung Jin Ho of Yahoo! Korea, Park Woong Hyun of TBWA Korea, and Pyo Chul Min of WizardWorks.
Strange Systems is the random musings of Nam-ho Park 박남호, who was trained in architecture, taught digital architectural design, worked as an information architect and user experience consultant and now managing an urban design project for Hanoi. To his credit or detriment, he has spent significant part of his life in Seoul, London, New York and Washington DC. As of Aug 2007, he lives and works in Seoul, Korea, and more recently been traveling to Hanoi, Vietnam a lot for work.
I have another blog, UXforGood where keep up with my intersecting interests in user experience and social change.
Here is a list of links to various sites. Some are sites managed by friends, others are ones that related to my interests, and still others I just listed because I visit them now and then. All are highly recommended.