Preston Smalley

I’m very happy to announce that UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business moved up to #2 in the 2007 Wall Street Journal annual survey (up from #5 in 2006) of corporate recruiters. This is a testament to the high MBA education that we’re receiving at UC Berkeley and I’m thrilled to see the WSJ recognize it.

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I’m looking forward to attending next year’s SxSW and am impressed at all the panels that people have proposed. Below is one I’d like to moderate, provided I get selected.

Letting Community Content Shine Through

How do you design a site that lets users feel it is truly “community owned and operated”? A site that supports business objectives centered around creating user-generated content, and differentiating it from company content? This panel will explore the issues surrounding a user-centric site, including voice, interaction, and visual design.

Some potential panelists could include folks from: Yahoo! Answers, YouTube, Facebook, Wordpress, and perhaps Ning. Vote for this panel.

Other panels I’m interested in:

• View some of the panels proposed by other eBay Designers
• The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems with Pictures by Dan Roam
• Design Metrics: “Better than because I said so” by Micah Alpern
• The Design, Development, and Science of Web Forms
• The State of Professional Front-End Engineering by Nate Koechley

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