Martin Belam CV - Articles, publications, presentations and education
Articles, publications and presentations
- May 2008: "My Favourite Tipples", Free Pint newsletter
- April 2008: "RSS Feeds: Managing the Mechanism", FUMSI
- Nov 2007: A series of articles on the 'BBC Internet Blog' to celebrate the 10th anniversary of bbc.co.uk
- 2007-2008: "Does your website know its RSS from its elbow?", "News personalisation: Taking the 'My' road", "The Independent's web redesign review", Press Gazatte, UK
- Apr 2006: A series of articles about redesigning the BBC homepage on the reboot:bbc.co.uk blog
- Feb 2005: "BBC-TAXONOMIE" (in Dutch translation), Informatie Professional, The Netherlands
- Jul 2004: "Search within a search", ei magazine, Volume 1 Issue 2, UK
I have given presentations about search engines, web strategy and widgets at a wide range of conferences including the 2008 IA Summit in Miami, IBERSID in Zaragoza, IP Lezing in Amsterdam and the Infonortics Search Engine Meeting in The Hague.
A full list of my online articles can be found at http://www.currybet.net/articles. My blog at www.currybet.net is about UXD, IA & usability, specifically focused on search engines, newspaper, media and music websites. In October 2007 it was listed in Blogstorm's Top 100 UK Blogs, and in recent months it has been referenced by The Independent, Guardian, Telegraph and Times newspapers.
Education
1994: BA (Hons) 2:1 History - Leeds University
1990: 4 A-Levels (English, History, Religious Studies, General Studies) - Forest School, London
1988: 1 AO-Level (Advanced Mathematics) - Forest School, London
1988: 11 GCSEs (English Language, English Literature, History, Geography, Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Latin, Religious Studies, Music) - Forest School, London
1987: 2 O-Levels (Mathematics, French) - Forest School, London
1986: 1 City & Guilds Certificate (Computer Literacy) - Forest School, London
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About Martin Belam
I'm a London-based internet consultant and writer, with 8 years experience in product management, information architecture, and user experience design for global brands like Sony, Vodafone, The Guardian and the BBC. I specialise in advising on search, widgets, RSS, online news publishing and bulk email delivery.
Martin Belam CV
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Recent posts
- Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 12
- The Financial Times and "the worst online redesign I have ever seen"
- Taking the 'Ooh' out of Google: Getting site search right - Part 11
- Another threat to local newspapers - daily BBC horoscopes by email!
- FIFA 2010 World Cup qualifying website review - Scotland
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Popular posts
- Protecting the identity of Baby P's killers: The courts vs the people vs the Internet
- Day #2 at Guardian Hack Day
- The BBC News linking policy is simply clumsy, not 'greedy'
- BBC fails the online Brand damage limitation test
- "The Former Scottish Constituency of Northumbria"
- Social media and www.bbc.co.uk
- Take-away facts and quotes from the 2008 Euro IA Summit in Amsterdam - Part 1
- Measuring UK newspaper success with social media
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BBC, Doctor Who, Ghost Walks, Media, Music, Newspapers, Search, Social media, Web
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