Kindle 2 Usability Review

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for March 9 is now online at:
  > http://www.useit.com/alertbox/kindle-usability-review.html

Summary:
Amazon's new e-book reader offers print-level readability and 
shines for reading fiction, but it has awkward interaction design and 
poor support for non-linear content.
	
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Usability Week 2009 conference

  > Washington DC, April 5-10 
  > London, May 17-22 
  > San Francisco, June 22-27 
  > Sydney, July 27-August 1

In-depth training:
  > 3-day camp on Usability in Practice

Specialized topics:
  > 14 in-depth tutorials

Full program:
  > http://www.nngroup.com/events

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EXAMPLES WANTED: 
Intranet Collaboration Features and Enterprise Social Networking

We are working on a new whitepaper on designing for "Enterprise 2.0",
including issues like:
   - Enterprise blogging, CEO blogs, employee blogs
   - Micro-blogging, mobile postings, Yammer etc.
   - Discussion forums
   - Wikis
   - "Internal Facebook" or "Internal LinkedIn"
   - Collaborative workspaces

Please help if you can contribute examples, screenshots, or case study
insights (whether positive lessons learned, or things to avoid).

More info:

  > http://www.nngroup.com/reports/intranet/social

DEADLINE: This Wednesday, March 11