• The ability to promote your group or network across the globe and encourage people from beyond your physical community to become involved
• To create interactive experiences where members can login and share information such as video, images and relevant articles
• To use online calendars and planning tools to organise events and meetings with the ability to present media from the events
• To allow online payment via Paypal or other web technologies for products and services related to your network
• To allow members to post information about themselves, their motives and interests, enabling others to establish effective links or connections with people and their projects or activities
• Deliver news and information to your group immediately
• Provide an internal communication system separate from the users own personal email system should it be beneficial to keep more personal details private or distinct from professional details

Success or Failure

Should you choose to start your own community you will need to consider a variety of issues from your available time to the quality of information flowing through the online space for your users. The success of a community or network is significantly influenced by the following factors:

• Your reach to the relevant groups or people who may wish to become involved. Do you have access to people on the web such as bulletin boards, forums or even a large and keen Twitter following, or in the physical world such as printed adverts, noticeboards where your information can be posted and taken notice of? If the answer is no, how will your message be read or even found? Word of mouth? Email? Getting enthusiastic responses via blog posts, responses, retweets or recommendations is the key to kickstarting your community.
• Do you have a reputation that encourages people to act upon your recommendation? Or do you know someone who has a good reputation in your activity area who would be willing to put their name to your endeavours? If you want people to join a community, this can be a significant pull towards establishing the group. A reputation is not vital but does provide support in your message to the world.
• Once you have overcome the first hurdle of establishing the interest of a few, or even many interested parties, have you or other contributors the time, inspiration and resources to consistently create quality interesting content for your network? Do you have a policy related to the regularity and style of your contributions whether it is through video, written blog items or even audio?
• Are you, or others in your community able to monitor the quality of the information put onto the site. How will you deal with the inevitable abuse of the system and spamming?
• Can your website sustain a reliable, effective service should there be a sudden explosion in readers or contributions? Consult your ISP or your IT service to work out the capacity of your webserver and assess how much data and bandwidth you have available.

 Example – Drawing Research Network

As part of my work for the Open University, in 2003 I set up a website for the drawing community – The Drawing Research Network otherwise known as the DRN. The most recent version of the site was upgraded from static HTML to WordPress back in 2009 with social network plugins such as Mingle as with the traditional blogging features allowing users to create their own visible profiles and Twitter style timelines as well as upload articles with images to the site for viewing by other members. During July 2011 management responsibility of the website was given Loughborough School of the Arts who have funded an administrator [Pete Simcoe] to ensure the quality of the articles is high both in content and formatting and the content is as useful as possible to a worldwide community of academics, artists, designers and other people with a passion and interest in this subject.

As of August 2011 there are around 210 listed members with many others reading and referring to the site. Below is a summary of some of the functionality of the site in video format, designed to demonstrate some of the capability to new users. Some of the functionality has been slightly altered, in that you now need an invite similar to Google Plus to become part of the group with reasons given below the video:

Benefits of WordPress

The main benefits of using the WordPress system on the Drawing Research Network are the fact that WordPress is designed for this sort of group activity – a series of bloggers can contribute to a continual stream of online discussion. It is also an online software system that is free and has a worldwide support network as well as many custom designed templates. The template for the DRN can be seen at Themeforest.net where for $35 much of the programming and layout is complete – it is down to the administrator or IT support unit to customise and style the blog as required.

As previously mentioned, a variety of plugins provide additional functionality for the blog including the ability to pull photos from the Drawing Research’s Flickr account.

Spamming Hazards

The main problem with most blogs is that unless steps are taken to prevent abuse, they are open to spamming, abusive comments and other unpleasantness. The Drawing Research Network is no exception. However, an effort has been made to reduce the number of spam comments and timewasters by using the following:

• Askimet  Anti-Spam system available to WordPress users which reduces comment spam
• SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam plugin creating a barrier to spam-bots by using keyboard input
• Secure Invites plugin meaning registration can only occur via an invite from another user

It has been an uphill struggle to resolve the spamming issue on this and other sites and whilst Invite Only websites have their limitations, the individual users of the DRN now have the ability to invite up to 10 other users which does create a kind of vetting process with shared responsibility in only allowing people with a genuine interest in drawing and drawing research onto the site.

Real Names and Photos

Recently there was outrage at Google’s decision to remove users on their new Google+ account that had not used their real names and one thing the DRN team have tried to encourage is the creation of realistic profiles. By this I am referring to the input of full names and legitimate email addresses along with a photo or example of artwork – the theory being that this firstly enables the detection of spam-bots or fake users more easily and secondly encourages responsibility and accountability on the site. If people are not happy putting their details online then they still have access to the main articles, the gallery and any downloads associated with these. It is also useful to note that the members list cannot be accessed by anyone other than the registered members themselves which provides additional security for users.

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Constructing An Argument

If you read his article, “I Will Never Hire a “Social Media Expert,” and Neither Should You“, then you might be able to identify with the sentiment but if you describe yourself as one of the experts, then maybe not. The problem with the article is that Shankman has not spent time considering his argument in terms of intellectual content and it ends up sounding like a slightly insane rant:

…..Being an expert in Social Media is like being an expert at taking the bread out of the refrigerator. You might be the best bread-taker-outer in the world, but you know what? The goal is to make an amazing sandwich, and you can’t do that if all you’ve done in your life is taken the bread out of the fridge [...] “It’s not about building a website anymore! It’s so much cooler! It’s about Facebook, and fans, and followers, and engagement, and influence, and…”. Will you please shut up before you make me vomit on your shoes? [...]

The irony is that part of me that thinks the guy needs someone who deals with social media [but not a 'professional expert'] to help him write his blog article because he tends to discredit anything useful he is saying by writing what appears to be the first thing that comes into his head. However, I do think Shankman is onto something and I can see where this article could have gone with a bit more care and attention to detail [and arguments sounding less 'foaming at the mouth' shall we say]. This whole issue could be broken down into the following arguments:

• Knowledge of the way Social Media works is not necessarily going to go hand in hand with the ability to apply that knowledge respectably or effectively in business.
• Understanding marketing power and the way social media can influence this should come from a sound level of research and experience in branding and user interaction within a company rather than allowing social media to drive a process because ‘everyone is doing it these days’.
• Experience and maturity should be applied to strategy and action taken when making yourself heard online. If you have something of value to offer customers then social media should be treated with delicate care and those who access your tweets, blogs or Facebook page should be under no illusion of how they can both ‘make’ and ‘break’.

My interpretation of Shankman’s dubious ranting is that he is enraged by the tidal wave of young, inexperienced social media ‘experts’ with little or no knowledge of business methods or processes. Where the article does fall down is that he does seem to dismiss any value to having followers on platforms such as Twitter, Facebook or other. In some respects he is completely wrong – blogs, Twitter and Facebook do have value but the level of importance to the business, the time allocated using social media and appropriate use or tone are the issues. Maturity, knowledge and business experience will dictate how much value is assigned to this in increasing sales or strengthening a brand but it is the knowledge beyond the hype [ie understanding the real advantages and disadvantages of these tools] that many business owners struggle to see and end up giving credit, in a respect and financial sense of the word, to those who deserve neither because there’s limited or no guidance / benchmark made accessible to them. Where business owners will also struggle when making decisions on spending time using social media is in the statistics – it is difficult to accurately assess how many of these social media tools really do or could affect the income a company or individual product could achieve and like all web based ‘booms’ for every success story there seem to be many other examples of failure or wasted effort.

You’d never give the intern permission to write the corporate press release to accompany an earnings announcement, so why the hell are you listening to the 22-year-old who says “we’re going to do this social media thing because it’s cool?”
- One of the more sane rants from Peter Shankman’s article

Characteristics Of These ‘Experts’

In my own experience I’ve often read the output of these so called experts. They do not usually last that long on Twitter [where you can prove you've little to offer the world in less than 143 characters] before they are removed – but their dross and the overall weight assigned to it seems to thrive – with the ‘icing on the disappointingly demoralising cake’ being the tragic thrill that most newsreaders on the BBC or Channel 4 news seem to get by giving Twitter or Facebook a mention during their broadcasts. Those with little to contribute easily outweigh those with valuable input and the ability to hide behind their computer along with the immediacy of the internet when commenting or blogging brings out the ‘inner stupid’ and prejudice in many. The way to identify a social media idiot is that they usually have at least two or three characteristics from the following [and you know you've met them]:

• A career in social media promotion in one form or another is all they have ever known
• They do not understand the businesses they work with and propose ideas that are short sighted and superficial
• They have an over inflated opinion of their self importance and casually mix personal with business without thought
• Their contribution is weak or limited in value and lacks mature judgement
• They make recommendations that rate ‘rating’s over user experience eg number of followers vs quality of tweets

Similar Problems in SEO

In many ways the social media industry suffers from the same problems as the search engine optimisation industry. I have had a couple of experiences where my clients have employed a ‘search engine optimisation’ expert to assist them in gaining higher rankings and Using the 4 principles above the end results involved the following:

• Changes made to the website without discussing with the client
• The changes were unexpected and actually damaged the user experience [eg names of titles changed and lost their relevance]
• The SEO companies charged an amount that involved usually involved a quick hit with a high hourly rate and zero discussion with the client themselves to resolve or prevent the sort of problems indicated above.
• The SEO companies were really just agencies who then passed on the job to an external party [often inexperienced programmer types with no understanding of business etiquette, or even social etiquette at times].

Don’t get me wrong, there are experts out there and people who can help you. However, experience tells me that those people are hidden in amongst a ‘glut’ of people wanting to cash in or live a lifestyle attending ‘workshops’ and telling others how to improve their business with little or no business sense. They are in effect, living on borrowed time and it’s down to business owners to wise up and stop handing over money to ‘too cool for school’ fools who should be in jobs that they feel are below them [but to the rest of us are 'jobs'].

ps – here’s the photo from iStockphoto I did want to use for this article [but was too expensive]

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Please Note:

Due to a lack of interest in the Designers Forum [What? There are no designers in Chester? ], the Meetup.com group has been closed. However, I have left the article on Design-Design as it outlines the ideas and aspirations behind the group.

The aims and objectives of Designers’ Forum are to encourage artists, designers and musicians to meet, share information and potentially collaborate on design projects on a formal or informal basis. My experience of Business Link, On Course Innovation and E-Business Events in the East Midlands [2003 - 2009] were generally positive and it would be great to bring these positive experiences to a group of people in creative industries in and around Chester.

Meetup.com was chosen as the vehicle for encouraging this activity because it seems to strike the right balance between professional and personal interests, has a large following, is an acceptable price to start your own Meetup.com group and has a reasonably intuitive interface. This is the write up for the Designers’ Forum:

This group is for designers, film makers, graphic artists and animators in the Chester area. The focus is on creating a support network made up of freelancers and company employees who enjoy meeting other people with a similar interest in designerly activity of different sorts.

The next meetup on 12 September at Telfords Warehouse [2pm] is all about how we use the web as professionals and for personal inspiration:

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I recently created a short news item for the Drawing Research Network called 6 Digital Drawing Experiments. This was essentially a collection of some of the research I had done into drawing and online experiments. When I say research, I mean the kind of informal searching for new and interesting design related websites I find by subscribing to design related RSS feeds through Google Reader and other paths and other related sites this may lead me to – I regularly scour the web for new and inspiring methods of digital drawing to learn from.

Why give free advice?

Why did I volunteer to freely spend this time providing others with content? Well, its simple and can be explained in 3 points that apply to blogs, forums or simply commenting upon someone elses work:

Reference. There is nothing like getting your head around a topic and clarifying your thoughts by writing them down – especially when there is potentially a large readership should the web community decide it is of value. The article is written both for my own benefit and the benefit of others interested in this area too.

Status. Do people rate what I have written? Well, maybe they want to see more of the same quality and may click on my own sites to see what else I do in the field of design – therefore this is an investment in potential future clients as well as impressing current clients who want to see that you are actively keeping up with what is going on in the world.

Community. Are there others out there who want to form collaborations, swap ideas or share similar information? By contributing to relevant blogs you can help connect with others.

What guidelines should I apply to my contributions?

Quality. Only create articles that you know are accurate, informative and contain a reasonable level of detail on the subject you are describing – ask yourself “What do I expect my readers to gain from this article? What insight or new information am I bringing to them? Could I assist presentation by using video or images or should the text be the only medium to convey the message. This sounds like common sense but there are many blogs out there full of very bland uninformative articles. Simplicity is good – over simplifying the content is not good.

Quantity. Establish an approximate and suitable typical interval between your articles. I typically leave around 2-3 weeks between each article on this blog as I feel it is healthy to stop and think about design objectively at these intervals. I learn and I hopefully help people to gain insight from my experiences and knowledge.

Objectivity. Having a personal agenda, opinion and direction is good but watch what you say online as this can be misinterpreted or simply not understood – at worst you could gain a bad reputation or simply be ignored altogether. I always assume I am talking to one of my clients meaning that my focus is upon helping them to understand a design related concept, acting professionally and ultimately gaining their respect.

Where to start?

The best way to START contributing is to STOP. Stop and look around at the way others are contributing and the types of contributions they are making to online conversation. This is useful for gaining an idea of what readers find valuable, the conventions for writing for different audiences and for forums or Twitter rather than blogs [or other typical web technologies] and the typical style of content. Once you feel comfortable and passionate about contributing then go ahead. If you don t feel like writing a whole article you may feel inspired to write a short response in a comments box on the site.

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Simcoemedia: The Drawing Research Network is officially live and we need to keep up the momentum on new members http://drawing-research-network.org.uk

Simcoemedia: Here’s a useful piece of free web-based software for creating a wiki – http://www.tiddlywiki.com/

Simcoemedia: It’s been two years since I got this little gem from Havana in Cuba – http://bit.ly/cCmYyf – definitely a favourite.

Simcoemedia: [ThemeForest] Dany’s Blossomsoft WP theme looks great for a wide range of design and corporates. Thanks for letting me know about that one.

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The traditional view of surfing the web is that a user looks at different Unique Resource Locations [URL]s or, to put it simply, visits different websites on the Internet to find out the latest information, updates and news from that site. This can take many hours of your week as you find the news page, maybe login or even refresh the current pages seeking the latest and greatest in your field of interest.

Automatic

Now reverse that idea and consider RSS feeds. RSS feeds transmit changes to content such as latest company news, latest world news from the BBC, latest images on Flickr and other relevant information to the feed you subscribe to. This will save you many hours of trawling through your favourite sources of information only to find that there was, essentially, nothing of interest or new.

Technical

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication [and can occasionally be know as Rich Site Summary]. It relies on the website in question having a suitable ‘Feed’ or file containing the information a Feed Reader can understand. The data in one of these Feed Files is usually in a special .XML format and contains a news title, summary and sometimes a thumbnail image to give the reader a suitable overview of the information they will be directed to. This is useful because a Feed Reader can easily compile a series of news titles into a very short amount of space for selection rather than the user trawling through page after page of old or irrelevant news.

If you are looking at a site that is compatible with a Feed Reader or Aggregator then you will see a link with this logo next to it [with the word 'subscribe'] or you will see the same logo in the URL bar at the top of the browser. Clicking on either will present you with the subscription window. If you really want to find out more technical details then Wikipedia’s RSS article gives a fairly accurate and useful summary.

Subscribing

If all this is sounding a little too complex – here is a suggestion: GIVE IT A TRY. Its easy to establish an RSS feed link especially if you are using Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer 8. It is recommended that you take the following steps to set up your Feeds:

1. Find yourself and easy-to-use aggregator. Google Reader does a good job of storing your feeds in one easy to manage area within your Google Account. To create an account [and a Google Account if you don t already have one] then go to the Google Reader Sign Up page. This will guide you through the process.

2. You will need to find yourself a website that has an RSS feed. This website has an RSS feed you can subscribe to and keep up with the latest news. To do this either click on this site’s feed link [or copy and paste www.design-design.co.uk/feed/ into your Google Reader account] and follow the instructions to save the feed to your browser window or Google Reader.

3. Login to your GOOGLE ACCOUNT > MY ACCOUNT > READER to see what feeds you have subscribed to and see the latest news.

4. If you know the address of the feed from other sites you can copy and paste this into Google Reader. If you want to try this – open a new TAB or browsing WINDOW and type in www.bbc.co.uk. You will then see the RSS orange feed link. Click on this and add it to your Reader account or a link in your browser favourites which will then update each time you open a browser window. One more useful tip is to organise your Feeds so that they appear on the main browser window by going to BOOKMARKS > ORGANISE BOOKMARKS > drop feed into BOOKMARKS TOOLBAR [Mozilla Firefox]

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In Simple Terms

Google Wave is in simplistic terms a development of email and messaging systems – a stream of information that can be interacted with in ways that make the information more ‘live’ and efficient. This is oversimplifying what is a development that could improve our online productivity considerably. Below are a few of the key features of Google Wave:

The system uses familiar interfaces and ideas when using email, messaging and word processing systems and therefore there is no need to relearn some of the basic techniques when interacting with Wave. When a participant edits or adds comments to a single Wave [or stream of information], the Wave will be moved to the top of the inbox ready for review. Wave becomes a tree structure of interactivity where certain participants in a stream of discussion can break off into another discussion.

Live Interactivity

A key feature of Wave is that as information is typed into the browser, unlike Skype, Instant Messenger and other IM systems, the individual keystrokes are shown as they happen with minimal delay over broadband connections. To avoid embarrassment or if a sentence needs to be more carefully crafted there is the option to bypass the live typing feature where necessary.

When a Wave discussion is occurring and live conversations between several participants is being recorded it is possible for all involved to be able to edit on the fly. If a series of comments are being written these can be changed as they are being written by other participants.

Embedding In Blog Style

It is possible to embed entire Waves into web pages. Put in oversimplified terms – if Google Wave allows more efficient interactivity between groups of people wanting to communicate ideas instantly then embedding a Wave is simply a case of allowing a standard web page to show this interactivity as it happens. This is in a similar way to the way Google Maps can be embedded into a standard web page easily.

Mobile Friendly

Google Wave will be available for mobile phones including Google’s Android and Apple’s iPhone allowing mobile participation and interactivity. You can see a demonstration of how this will work [though its not fully working] at 25m 25sec on the Google Wave demo video [links to YouTube in a new window]

Finding, Filtering and Translating

Another useful feature of Wave is that the user can essentially filter out the factual elements of a discussion and sent to a Wiki or other document so as knowledge is built up around a subject it can be stored and retrieved easily. Eventually Google expects that Spreadsheets and Presentation Tools will be built around the Wave system to reduce time needed to transfer information across to other systems.

Google Wave can support the use of different languages [and presumably the translation of these on the fly]. Hebrew and Chinese characters are demonstrated in the YouTube video below.

Uploading Images

Wave can handle uploading of images to the server and as these images are uploaded to the Wave conversation thumbnails are quickly generated to show other participants on the network what images are being processed. The image labels can easily be edited by the group / participants. A demo of this is shown at 35min 20sec on the Google Wave demo video [links to YouTube in a new window]

Tagging Waves

Tags are used to organise Waves and allow users / participants to search for different Waves on the system as they build up. This is similar to searching for emails in an email archive. A demo of this is seen at 40min 26sec. Waves can also be cross linked – a link to another wave can be inserted into a wave and therefore cross linking is possible. See this at 40min 39sec on the Google Wave demo video [links to YouTube in a new window].

Advanced Spelling and Other Toolkit Modules

Advanced spelling systems from Google Web Toolkit are integrated and there is an excellent example of how advanced this has become at 44min 15sec. Google have cute names for their various toolkit modules including Bloggy [for inserting Wave as a blog], Linky [intelligent method for inserting links] and Spelly. These all happen server side which means that information is all processed quickly on the server then the results transmitted over the web to the client computer [where the user sees the result].

Polling Systems and Collaboration

At 48min 56sec an interesting poll system is demonstrated where users / participants can vote or indicate YES / NO / MAYBE interest live on the site. As people change their mind or vote the results are displayed in lists and graphs for analysis.

Games and Progress

At 51mins 42sec Google staff demonstrate Wave being used for interactive games and demonstrate the progress bar that highlights how the entire Wave progresses from its origins of a single stream of information and at 52mins 42sec a demonstration of how Google Maps can be used to demonstrate interest in a holiday location is shown. Google hopes and anticipates that their examples are only a basic venture into the endless possibilities of what could be achieved with the system.

There are several other systems demonstrated toward the end of the presentation but essentially the features listed above would provide most effective for business and social development. Google Wave is currently in the final phases of development and a demo version of the system will be made available to a limited group of users in the near future. For the moment we just need to be patient before this exciting new technology creeps into mainstream workflow and daily activity.

Other discussion and links

Not everyone is so delighted about the arrival of Google Wave or, at least, they are skeptical of the benefits it may bring to the web community as a whole. Some interested articles are listed below:

TechCrunch: Google Wave – There Will Be Backlash
Lifehacker.com takes a first look at Google Wave

Google Wave: A Brief Overview [8min]

This is for the less programmer orientated viewer who may want an overview of what Google Wave can do for their business, academic project or social interaction!

Full Google Wave Demo [1h20min]

Here is the full Google Wave demo before a live audience. Most of it goes according to plan. Recommended for those with both a programming interest, patience and a reasonable understanding of technical terms for the 1.5 hour demo [and general Google banter]. If this doesn’t sound like you then go with the overview above!

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The aim of this blog, news page, community magazine or whatever you would call it, is to involve and inform the client of the emergence of new ideas, design techniques, styles, equipment and technologies in an easy to understand summary so an informed decision can be made regarding the incorporation of these ideas and techniques into their media design strategy. When I use the words “media design strategy” – I am refering to a way of describing the plan of action a business, institution or artist may have for generating different types of media to promote ideas, sell products or store information.

To put it in more simple terms – this website is about informing clients interested in employing a designer about the options, ideas and technologies currently available to the media design and production industries.

Some of the subjects and technologies you can expect to be covered are listed below – these are just a taster and if you have any suggestions make sure you leave them in the comment area at the bottom of the page or email me at design@design-design.co.uk and don’t forget to subscribe to the Design-Design RSS Feed.

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