dispatches from the new world of work

Homepage Housekeeping

Take a look around this page and you'll see that we've done some reorganizing and redesign. Keeping things fresh and dynamic can get a little messy (not that there's anything wrong with that!), so we've tidied up a bit. Tom keeps telling us to give things away, so we've created a new page just for Free Stuff. Cool Friends are now on your left, and links to Tom's Slides, Free Stuff, and featured Wow!Store items are on your right.

You'll see some changes on the main navigation menu, too. Notice the link to Tom Peters Company Consulting Services; it takes you to a new, separate site. We also added a new section called Resources to give you one-click access to some of your favorite items. Everything you're used to is still here, and now it's easier to find.

Linda Fatherree posted this on 10/19/05.

Comments

hey - as part of house keeping is it possible to have "tags" and "catogries " for each posting ??

Its difficult to dig and harverst info as the blog search funcntion is not really effective.

E.g I need to know who that someone who asked tom >

and I know that Tom blogged this too..if I am not mistaken this question was asked "YR04" but difficult to do factchecking and cull infonugguts :(-

Posted by /pdd at October 19, 2005 3:24 PM

oh-- 4got to mention another good thing to have its own page is the Tom's 100 ways to succeed !! Those were a classic one of a kind - rants of toms

Posted by /pdd at October 19, 2005 3:29 PM

Great Job! Excellent! Love the link.

Posted by K.Sriram at October 20, 2005 12:59 AM

Linda, ok found what I was looking for :)-

"September 18th, the head of IIR Middle East, Jessica Sutherland, asked Tom a "simple" question." !!

Posted by /pdd at October 20, 2005 8:57 AM

Where did â€œCare Abouts" go? They are very insightful!

Posted by Gator at October 20, 2005 9:26 AM

Great job. Same look, with a more organized and efficient interface. Sensationally seamless.

You're very generous.

Posted by Tom O'Leary at October 20, 2005 10:02 AM

/pdd, my name is Phoebe and I have been consulting with the folks at Tom Peters to help them on the technical side of things. Regarding your suggestion about including categories or tags, we did actually include Categories in this phase of UI/navigational changes to the site. What you didn't see is the rollout of the category links underneath each entry which went live today. What you may have missed is that if you look at the left-hand navigation above the Blogroll, most of the blog entries from this year have been indexed by Category. You can now filter through the content by browsing through the categories of interest to you. Or better yet, you can simply subscribe to specific categories via RSS.

As for a better search, we agree, it needs improvement which is why a better integrated search feature is included in Phase 2 of our site changes. Expect this to be unveiled in the near future when we also migrate our blog to a different platform.

And please, keep the suggestions for improvement coming. It's great to get direct feedback from our users on exactly how they use the site.

Posted by Phoebe at October 20, 2005 3:47 PM

>And please, keep the suggestions for improvement coming. It's great to get direct feedback from our users on exactly how they use the site.

Then please think about 'web standards compliant' behaviour and not spawning fresh windows for comments - and instead having them link through to a page which contains the entry and comments. Current setup not only breaks the 'back button' function, in not having an address bar it further impedes usability and the auto resize function makes it too large on some browsers (certainly on firefox mac) to see the status bar - so you can neither see where you are or where you're going with any links in the comments. Not good. There's plenty of examples where it's done better - worthwhile mag comes immediately to mind.

Posted by gulliver at October 21, 2005 2:46 AM

Great stuff as usual... Tom you are the man! One thing - when can we expect the last 50 (51-100) way to help you Succeed/Make Money? I can't wait!

Posted by Al Carbone at October 21, 2005 8:04 AM

Gulliver, you can somewhat override the js popup properties by holding down your mouse when selecting the comment hyperlink to invoke other options in Firefox. Select Open Link in New Window to open the link in a new window which would then allow you to view the Comments page with the URL displayed. As for Worthwhile -- their site is actually NOT W3C compliant.

Posted by femmebot at October 22, 2005 2:06 AM

For clarification, not to argue...

>As for Worthwhile -- their site is actually NOT W3C compliant.

...never said/suggested it was - my use of 'better' refers to the standard linking behaviour they use.

And for 'somewhat overide'... sure, you can regain LIMITED functionality.

Point here is simple - and it's not about W3 compliance or anal wishes... 'WHY MAKE IT NEEDLESSLY DIFFICULT FOR USERS?'.

Posted by gulliver at October 22, 2005 3:09 AM

Well, I'm a user and I don't think it's needlessly difficult. Even my mom gets it. From the volume of comments I see here, it doesn't seem broken. Maybe it's just an anti-popup bias you have, which I respect.

Posted by femmebot at October 22, 2005 4:15 AM

>Let's move on - this helps no one... the point has been clearly made.

Posted by gulliver at October 22, 2005 11:45 AM