The Design Management Institute is a venerable institution that has been trying to elevate the visibility and influence of design in the realm of business for many years. It has some fantastic conferences, and a great journal publication, but it seems slow in leveraging new technologies, and leveraging the intellectual capital of its community.
The DMI has created an Innovation Blog, but without some drastic changes and added features I fear it will not become as influential or as useful as it should coming from such a great institution. Here’s a link to the blog: DMI Innovation Blog
If the DMI actually created a blog, that was contributed to by a dozen or more of its active members it could well become a hugely influential voice in the blogosphere on many strategic design topics. But it continues to falter, it’s latest blog, that is actually positioned as an adjunct to it’s international conference, fails to implement the most basic blog functions, or follow any “blogging best practices”. The three most heinous errors are:
- Commenters don’t get a link back to their own website
- Commenters email addresses are exposed to harvesting
- No permalinks or trackback
And of course because they havn’t got trackback or permalinks they don’t know i’m talking about them right now, although that might be a good thing.
Anyway, I love what the DMI stands for I just wish they could leverage their resources a little better.
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