In conjunction with our very talented partners at Seltzer Design of Boston, we’re very pleased to announce the launch of Oliverworks.com, the new interactive information experience for seasoned consultant Faith Oliver.

Seltzer worked with Faith to create the strategy, content and UI, then handed the heavy lifting to us, including building Flash-based tangram puzzles that give the user a different way of thinking about how pieces of every puzzle incorporate the strengths and talents of an energized workforce.

Have a look at Oliverworks.com and let us know how we can help you energize your online initiative!

Hi Everyone,

Time for someone other than Keith to post something. We want to offer our hearty congratulations to Keith on his appointment to the Board of Directors for the American Marketing Association, Boston Chapter where he’ll fill the role of VP, Internet Services.

Nice work, Keith!

To learn more about volunteering and helping Keith manage the online experience, visit www.AMABoston.org.

If you’re a Boston marketer and aren’t a member yet, what’s taking you so long!? Join now!

Here’s an interesting thing about creating and publishing your own project: You need just as many resources, pairs of eyeballs and time to physically sit at a machine long enough to create it.

I’m proud to announce the launch of http://uxprofessionals.com!

In our inaugural issue, we decided to use a very well-received article that was posted on A List Apart. We hope you take the time to stop by and submit your own comments and article ideas.

We’ve made it easy to stay up to date:

• Follow us on Twitter
• Join us on LinkedIn
• Join us on Facebook

Well, it only took two weeks for the weather to cooperate, but we finally have a few shots of the new digs.

A special thanks to Steven Pereira and Jody LaFerriere for their time and photography!

http://www.visualactivity.com/photos/312stuart/

We’d love to use our new conference room, so contact us for a visit!

I will always look back at the first time I ever opened Netscape Navigator, ver. 1.0a as THE turning point in my career. In 1994, the browser was released in the first non-beta version and was passed around on disks to friends at work who were lucky enough to either have a modem or, gasp, a connection to BBN Planet.

On February 1, 2008, the sometimes bane and sometimes joy of my existence, Netscape Navigator, will cease to be. And while I haven’t felt the same about Netscape since the 1999 acquisition by AOL, I will always and forever blame my love/hate relationship with javascript on version 4.7.

For those of you who feel nostalgic and wish to keep your old-school roots in tact, brave it out and download the skin for Firefox.

Maybe I’m just feeling nostalgic on a cold, rainy Saturday, but the industry seemed so much smaller back then and you felt like you were part of something big that most everyone else thought was just a fad. For those who knew better, this was “it”. You were paid well for knowing your hacks. You were called three to five times per week with lucrative job offers.

These days we still have similar issues as we fight our way through user experience designs being presented correctly in all browsers. We still wish to God Almighty (or your power of choice) that there wasn’t the need for CSS hack repositories (thank you, Ethan).

So, while I may feel nostalgic for the old days, I’m glad to see things change and I’m ecstatic that I still get to call this industry my home.

Netscape Navigator, I bid you farewell. Thanks for the memory (leaks).