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Being serious isn’t the whole answer « electronic museum — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:54:46 +0000

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Webnoise « electronic museum — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:08:01 +0000

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By: Lucy

Lucy — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:48:17 +0000

So many issues – where on earth to start?

I’ve so much sympathy for your frustration, but in some ways it’s a pretty good spot to be in. At least you have people in the business who know what FB is even if they don’t know how to utilize it (I think!?).

It’s an incredibly delicate art being able to turn people’s short burst of enthusiasm about something new on the web into a more sustained, practical and beneficial approach – but at least that’s easier than trying to convert people with no understanding what so ever. If you do crack it though, let me know.

One of the key things I think is a business unit that filters through the ideas that have merit based on priority (ROI, business case, etc). That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have a research budget (aka experimental time allocation, etc) but it can be quite handy to give this a number (1 day a week, 1 a month?) so that you’ve got a chance to balance things. Then let the designers/developers get on and have a go at it – with a UCD focus of course.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:34:10 +0000

I got into this facebook thing because colleagues thought it was a good idea to tap into social networks to gain support for the inspired project at Science museum Swindon. It may work, who knows, but also gives me the satisfying opportunity to virtually headbut annoying colleagues.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:44:58 +0000

John
I agree. Where it gets difficult is in determining the role of RAD and mashup stuff. The argument goes that if we simply listened to our users all the time, we’d probably be back in the days of the text only internet using Lynx browsers and still having our virtual experiences in MUDs. There is a role for technology advocates to play, and it’s being a translator from user requirement to technical solution. As you’d know…
What’s important though is that us “translators” are savvy enough to be able to recommend leading-edge tech to solve those problems in more elegant, *user-friendly* ways; to improve on what has gone before.
Mike
ps. Facebook groups? moi?

By: john morse

john morse — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:30:14 +0000

mike
you’re seriously not getting the “if you build it they will come” method of developing new services,…..I jest, the argument that we MUST do this because, well everyone is doing it darhling its just soo street!! has been haunting the industry since some bright sparked added pictures to the internet.
every tool has an audience, in this case USER and its the NEEDS of the USER that shoudl drive new development not the desires of the organisation…which should be the same but, unfortunately, rarely are.
as a matter of interest on the Facebook front, how many groups are you in….how many do you praticipate in and how many are have no activity at all ???
j

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:14:00 +0000

Hi Jenny

Yeah, I agree that making it happen should be a priority. But I also think that there will be ways of approaching (social) applications like Facebook which are more effective than others. I’d like to see us being both intelligent AND daring about our approaches. ..

Mike

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Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:55:12 +0000

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