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It's the start of our favourite season here at Social Signal: the run-up to Valentine's Day. For us, it's a celebration of love, togetherness and community.

And what better way to express that togetherness than through a podcast? That's why we're launching a new experiment, Bedtime with Rob and Alex. It's a podcast that captures the knowledge, insights and passions of our online community and Web 2.0 explorations -- whether that involves a new way of looking at online collaboration, or a new piece of software for looking at online pictures.

Episode #2 of the Social Signal podcast features an interview with design ethnographer Kelly Goto, who explains why testing for usability is a must in the era of the social web. We also list some of the events coming up on the Social Signal calendar.

Some of the links mentioned in the podcast:

• Our calendar of upcoming events
• Registration for the NTEN webinar series
• The Northern Voice blogging conference
• Registration for Web 2.0 and Your Organization with Alexandra Samuel and Jason Mogus
• Kelly Goto's company, gotomedia
• The books Kelly recommends:
• Steve Krug, Don't Make Me Think
• Karen Donoghue and Michael D Schrage, Built for Use
• Kelly's book:
• Web ReDesign 2.0: Workflow that Works
  

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