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I bookmark a lot of pages and sites which I find interesting, inspirational and informative every day! I’d like to share some of them with you here. In general they are about user experience, usability, UCD, accessbility and design. In general, but not always!!

• Newest Questions – UX Exchange – Q&A site for user experience professionals
  UX Exchange is a User Experience (UX) Q & A site. You can register if you want to collect reputation points and win valuable flair that will appear next to your name, but otherwise, it's just free to post and answer questions.
• Great UX quote
• A List Apart: Articles: Can You Say That in English? Explaining UX Research to Clients
  The new business meeting was going swimmingly—that is, until the client started asking questions about our design process. Then we unleashed our lexicon of specialized user experience (UX) research terminology.
• Social Software: The Other ‘Design for Social Impact,’ by Gentry Underwood – Core77
  “Human-centered approaches to industrial and interaction design have long focused on studying human behavior to create informed and appropriate designs. A social interaction designer must consider not only people, environment, and existing tools, but also the unseen elements of the system such as social relationships, power dynamics, and cultural rules.”

Please do feel free to suggest other related (and unrelated ones)!

Seth Godin (you can see his excellent blog here) was recently asked if social networking was important to business, and if so why. His answer is great, I especially liked what he says about networking (and I paraphrase somewhat):

Networking is only important when it’s real; it’s a useless distraction when it’s fake