By Andy Opsahl, Features Editor. Government Technology, November 23, 2009. "Utah won the top honor for state portals at the Center for Digital Government's Best of the Web awards ceremony in Hollywood, Calif., in September. Utah.gov uses Geo-IP technology, which reads a visitor's IP address in order to display links content that are relevant to a person's physical location. Fletcher discussed the Geo-IP implementation with Government Technology..."
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The government's central web portal is working on giving people online access to personalised information and functions on government services. Kable, Monday 26 October 2009. "Jayne Nickalls, chief executive of Directgov, told Guardian Public that it hopes to introduce citizen accounts as one of a number of innovations some time next year..."
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Government Technology, October 26, 2009. "Utah's portal offers a user experience tailored to each citizen's local surroundings, thanks to the state's deployment of Geo Internet protocol (IP) technology. The feature recently helped Utah.gov win the top state honor at the Center for Digital Government's Best of the Web awards ceremony in Hollywood, Calif..."
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ePractice.eu, 13 October 2009. Country Belgium; Domain
eGovernment; Topic eIdentity and eSecurity, Services for Businesses, Services for Citizens, Infrastructure, User-centric Services. "The portal 'My.belgium.be' was officially launched in September 2009. It provides registered users with a direct, easy, secure and round the clock online access to their personal files and to many Federal Government services..."
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Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, August 17, 2009. "Summary: Websites that let users customize the UI have the same measured usability as regular sites. Sites for customizing products, however, score substantially worse due to complex workflow."
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By Bryan Eisenberg. Future Now, February 13, 2009. "Personalization, done effectively, is a lot more than making product recommendations or using technology to welcome a visitor by name. Smart personalization is the process of providing more relevant content and offers to your visitors based on their preferences and behavior. I call it persona-lization..."
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by Mike Moran. Search Engine Guide, January 27, 2009. Discusses the various techniques you can use to assist in personalizing websites including cookies, IP detection and user IDs.
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By Jeremy Lockhorn, The ClickZ Network, July 14, 2008. "The digital lifestyle is changing marketing. New technologies are creating new opportunities, releasing digital marketing from the confines of the personal computer. Last time, we looked at two related trends: the ubiquitous Web and digital out of home. Today, we'll look at two more trends: personalization and widgets..."
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By Rachelle Crum. E-Commerce Times, 20 June 2008. "Personalization is one way e-tailers hope to bolster their cross-selling and upselling efforts and increase customer loyalty. Online consumers are embracing the idea of having tailored suggestions served to them during various stages of their shopping experience..."
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Self-customizing e-commerce sites can expect higher sales, they say, by Tim Greene (Network World). Computerworld, 23 May 2008. "Web sites that automatically customize themselves for each visitor so they come across as more appealing or simply less annoying can boost sales for online businesses by close to 20 per cent, MIT research says..."
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Government Technology, April 15, 2008. "A majority of U.S. adults are skeptical about the practice of Web sites using information about a person's online activity to customize Web site content. However, after being introduced to four potential recommendations for improving Web sites privacy and security polices, U.S. adults become somewhat more comfortable with the Web sites use of personal information..."
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by Abid Warsi. Webcredible, February 2008. "Several popular websites have let their homepages be customised by users. New web technologies have made it possible to add slicker customisation interfaces so more sites are allowing users to customise their pages. But, should you do the same? Will it make your website better for users or will it make it unnecessarily complicated? Will users even want this feature on your site?..."
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By Gerry McGovern. New Thinking, September 10, 2007 - Volume 12 Number 34. "The theory of intranet personalization is wonderful. The practice is generally woeful: hugely expensive implementations that totally fail; massive maintenance overheads and very little employee uptake..."
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By Jack Aaronson, The ClickZ Network, August 24, 2007. "Five years ago, I wrote a lot about personalization. Let's return to the topic to look at personalization technologies. The landscape has changed so much in the last few years that finding technology companies that just make products centered around these technologies is often difficult. Many have been bought by large CMS or other platform companies..."
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by Catherine Grenfell. Step Two Designs, 14 June 2007. "Due to technology improvements, personalisation is a growing feature in both intranet and portal usage. Organisations around the world have already made their first forays into personalisation, however many more organisations are questioning what to personalise and how to go about it..."
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