David Hobbs @jdavidhobbs

Making big website changes happen. || DC native. Hiker/cyclist. Peace Corps Chad. Photographer. davidhobbsconsulting.com Washington, DC Joined June 2008

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David Hobbs @jdavidhobbs

2 weeks ago

I like the title from The Economist: Can you make it to the end of this column?

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It's counterintuitive that the friendliest way to name an invite between you and one other person is Your Name / Their Name (like "David Hobbs / John Doe: Redirects") so that on their calendar they don't see their name first. But if *feels* friends to defer to their name first.

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David Hobbs @jdavidhobbs

2 weeks ago

Let me know if you need a redirect audit. I've been doing some really interesting crawling / graph db analysis for a client as part of a replatforming / relaunch.

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David Hobbs @jdavidhobbs

2 weeks ago

Those times when you think you've written something golden that's going to get lots of traction online and... crickets.

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David Hobbs @jdavidhobbs

2 weeks ago

Agencies, when you are responding to an RFP for a redesign: if you had magical x-ray vision about the potential site(s), what would you like to know about the site? In particular, what would you most like to echo back to the potential client to show you understand their site?

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David Hobbs @jdavidhobbs

2 weeks ago

Remember these are two things: * Chat as a UI * The underlying primary source of what is displayed Yes, the ChatGPT app combines both. But these do not need to be tightly bound. Other options: Chat with data, or Graphical UI where the primary source content is an LLM.

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David Hobbs @jdavidhobbs

2 weeks ago

The "see link in first comment" is kind of ridiculous. But I think I'm going to start doing that, especially on LinkedIn, to get more reach.

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David Hobbs @jdavidhobbs

2 weeks ago

I sometimes add a Do Not Do list to implementation strategies. This can be useful when a team is losing focus, for instance by chasing a current trend that is not relevant to their current situation.

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David Hobbs @jdavidhobbs

2 weeks ago

90% of situations: Need big web changes → Send RFP 10%: Need big web changes → Define/align internally → Send RFP When needed: * Changes spanning silos * Restructuring cross-system integrations * Competing internally desires Sending an RFP already locks many things in.

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David Hobbs @jdavidhobbs

2 weeks ago

Thinking about getting back into amateur radio. Transmitting in Hell Mode is not something I remember.

a month ago

A useful LLM use: walking through a website and just talking out loud about the problems/opportunities then having the LLM summarize. The bit I haven't worked out is how to automatically capture URLs of the pages I'm looking at.