The Pic & Mix Project is a pilot project by Kent County Council to evaluate what data would be useful to the community. The Council is making its datasets freely available to be combined with external data and applications through mashups. This will allow residents to access information like local services and jobs. The project aims to determine what information people need to feel their lives are more meaningful. If successful, the mashups created could become an integral part of the community's online experience. The challenges include managing expectations and ensuring the data and interfaces are easy to use.
By Laurenellen McCann. Edited by Daniel X. O’Neil.
Experimental Modes of Civic Engagement
in Civic Tech is an investigation into what
it means to build civic technology with, not for, real people and real communities. It answers the question, “What’s the difference between sentiment and action?”
The project was conducted by Laurenellen McCann, and it deepens her work in needs- responsive, community-driven processes for creating technology for public good.
This is a project of the Smart Chicago Collaborative, a civic organization devoted to improving lives in Chicago through technology. It was funded by a Knight Community Information Challenge Deep Dive grant given to The Chicago Community Trust by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Experimental Modes of Civic Engagement in Civic Tech is an investigation into what it means to build civic tech with, not for. It answers the question, "what's the difference between sentiment and action?"
The project led by Laurenellen McCann, and it deepens her work in needs-responsive, community-driven processes for creating technology with real people and real communities for public good.
This project falls under Smart Chicago's work on the Knight Community Information Challenge grant awarded under their Engaged Communities strategy to the Chicago Community Trust "as it builds on its successful Smart Chicago Project, which is taking open government resources directly into neighborhoods through a variety of civic-minded apps"
This document is a compendium of writing by Laurenellen created as a primer for our April 4, 2015 convening at the Chicago Community Trust.
Change is everywhere. Technology has accelerated the change. Government needs to adapt its thinking and strategy to these new realities. This document is primer to decision makers to trigger their thinking in that direction. The future of Government is Open, Collaborative and Social.
People’s Insights Volume 1, Issue 52: Vicks Mobile Ad CampaignMSL
This week, we distill insights around a Mobile Ad Campaign in which Vicks combined several layers of data to reach moms in high flu zones with mobile ads for their premium Behind Ear Thermometer
100+ thinkers and planners within MSLGROUP share and discuss inspiring projects on corporate citizenship, crowdsourcing, storytelling and social data on the MSLGROUP Insights Network.
Every week, we pick up one project and do a deep dive into conversations around it -- on the MSLGROUP Insights Network itself but also on the broader social web -- to distill insights and foresights. We share these insights and foresights with you on our People’s Insights blog and compile the best insights from the network and the blog in the iPad-friendly People’s Lab Quarterly Magazine, as a showcase of our capabilities.
For more, see: http://peopleslab.mslgroup.com
Finding a Foothold: How Nonprofit News Ventures Seek SustainabilityKnight Foundation
A new report offers an in-depth view into the nonprofit news industry, revealing the significant progress that news organizations have made toward sustainability and the challenges they still face. The report, “Finding a Foothold: How Nonprofit News Ventures Seek Sustainability,” provides data and analysis on 18 nonprofit news organizations between 2010 and 2012.
A follow-up to the 2011 Knight study, “Getting Local: How Nonprofit News Ventures Seek Sustainability,” the new report takes a deeper look, expanding the number of nonprofit sites included in the research. It also broadens the focus of the study from just local, to state and national organizations. Find out more at www.knightfoundation.org/features/nonprofitnews.
A "mini user case study" was conducted in April 2020 to explore the question, "What’s needed to be attracted to a virtual world and to stay there afterwards?" The results are relevant to virtual presence platform providers moving products from beta through production to broad commercialization, and to their prospective platform users.
Following the advent of “digital”, it’s my opinion that the things people think have changed haven’t, but some things have changed that aren’t yet widely understood.
By Laurenellen McCann. Edited by Daniel X. O’Neil.
Experimental Modes of Civic Engagement
in Civic Tech is an investigation into what
it means to build civic technology with, not for, real people and real communities. It answers the question, “What’s the difference between sentiment and action?”
The project was conducted by Laurenellen McCann, and it deepens her work in needs- responsive, community-driven processes for creating technology for public good.
This is a project of the Smart Chicago Collaborative, a civic organization devoted to improving lives in Chicago through technology. It was funded by a Knight Community Information Challenge Deep Dive grant given to The Chicago Community Trust by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Experimental Modes of Civic Engagement in Civic Tech is an investigation into what it means to build civic tech with, not for. It answers the question, "what's the difference between sentiment and action?"
The project led by Laurenellen McCann, and it deepens her work in needs-responsive, community-driven processes for creating technology with real people and real communities for public good.
This project falls under Smart Chicago's work on the Knight Community Information Challenge grant awarded under their Engaged Communities strategy to the Chicago Community Trust "as it builds on its successful Smart Chicago Project, which is taking open government resources directly into neighborhoods through a variety of civic-minded apps"
This document is a compendium of writing by Laurenellen created as a primer for our April 4, 2015 convening at the Chicago Community Trust.
Change is everywhere. Technology has accelerated the change. Government needs to adapt its thinking and strategy to these new realities. This document is primer to decision makers to trigger their thinking in that direction. The future of Government is Open, Collaborative and Social.
People’s Insights Volume 1, Issue 52: Vicks Mobile Ad CampaignMSL
This week, we distill insights around a Mobile Ad Campaign in which Vicks combined several layers of data to reach moms in high flu zones with mobile ads for their premium Behind Ear Thermometer
100+ thinkers and planners within MSLGROUP share and discuss inspiring projects on corporate citizenship, crowdsourcing, storytelling and social data on the MSLGROUP Insights Network.
Every week, we pick up one project and do a deep dive into conversations around it -- on the MSLGROUP Insights Network itself but also on the broader social web -- to distill insights and foresights. We share these insights and foresights with you on our People’s Insights blog and compile the best insights from the network and the blog in the iPad-friendly People’s Lab Quarterly Magazine, as a showcase of our capabilities.
For more, see: http://peopleslab.mslgroup.com
Finding a Foothold: How Nonprofit News Ventures Seek SustainabilityKnight Foundation
A new report offers an in-depth view into the nonprofit news industry, revealing the significant progress that news organizations have made toward sustainability and the challenges they still face. The report, “Finding a Foothold: How Nonprofit News Ventures Seek Sustainability,” provides data and analysis on 18 nonprofit news organizations between 2010 and 2012.
A follow-up to the 2011 Knight study, “Getting Local: How Nonprofit News Ventures Seek Sustainability,” the new report takes a deeper look, expanding the number of nonprofit sites included in the research. It also broadens the focus of the study from just local, to state and national organizations. Find out more at www.knightfoundation.org/features/nonprofitnews.
A "mini user case study" was conducted in April 2020 to explore the question, "What’s needed to be attracted to a virtual world and to stay there afterwards?" The results are relevant to virtual presence platform providers moving products from beta through production to broad commercialization, and to their prospective platform users.
Following the advent of “digital”, it’s my opinion that the things people think have changed haven’t, but some things have changed that aren’t yet widely understood.
Evaluating Impact: NLab, Amplified Leicester, and creative innovation via soc...Dr Sue Thomas
SEMINAR: Evaluating Impact: NLab, Amplified Leicester, and creative innovation via social media
Wednesday 8th June 2011, 4pm at the Institute of Creative Technologies De Montfort University, Leicester, UK .
Since 2005, DMU has initiated a series of projects which share a common focus of exploring social media as a means of stimulating creative innovation in business, non-profit, and community life in and around Leicester. They include NLab and CreativeCoffee Club (funded by HEIF, the Higher Education Innovation Fund) and Amplified Leicester (funded by NESTA, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts). Professor Sue Thomas has devised and directed these activities across the Faculty of Humanities and the Institute of Creative Technologies.
Emergence has been a dominant feature of all the projects and, despite being driven by different agendas, each has informed the shaping of the others. An important element has been the creation and evolution of spaces, both physical and intellectual, which support:
* the application of academic research to real-life problems
* the connection of cutting-edge research into social media innovation with local creative businesses
* the creation of a network linking De Montfort University with small businesses, non-profits, and local agencies
Dr Souvik Mukherjee has evaluated the impact of these projects both in relation to their importance for the Research Excellence Framework and with regard to indications of future developments building on current achievements. In the process, he has also gleaned valuable insights into the REF Impact agenda which will be of interest to colleagues in a wide range of disciplines.
Dr Mukherjee is a Research fellow in the Department of Media, Film and Journalism in the Faculty of Humanities. He is currently involved in analysing the impact of social media projects on communities, especially in relation to business innovation and transliteracy. Having completed his PhD on storytelling in New Media, especially focusing on videogame narratives, Souvik has published and presented papers on a range of related topics. Besides New Media, he also takes a keen interest in e-learning and has been involved in analysing online media and virtual learning network usage in higher education. After completing his project at DMU, Souvik intends to return home to India to develop New Media research networks there.
Digital Marketing And Events 2.0 Draft Ver6Martin Walsh
Here is a draft discussion paper I prepared to initiate change of how physical events are developed and executed in this era of digital marketing, social media marketing and Web 2.0.
Community Partnership in Civic Tech: Workshop, Code for America Summit 2015Laurenellen McCann
Slides from Laurenellen McCann's workshop at the Code for America 2015 Summit. This talk explores how civic technology is made today and explores alternative methods for creation based on real world examples that prioritize people and civic context above raw technology production. Based on research conducted by McCann and the Smart Chicago Collaborative as part of the Knight Foundation's Community Information Challenge. For more information (and to check out the accompanying book), head to http://smartchicagocollaborative.org/modes or http://buildwith.org.
“Six Lessons on Designing Public Prizes for Impact” looks at how foundations can use contests as a powerful tool to advance their work. The report therefore offers a valuable starting point for foundations and other organizations to leverage the benefits of contests.
It outlines Knight Foundation’s history and experiences with hosting challenges across all its program areas—media innovation and journalism, arts and communities. Readers can take advantage of six lessons, along with practical examples and tips, on designing public prizes for impact and running an effective contest. Also included are examples of work with specific grantees.
Find out more at www.knightfoundation.org/opencontests.
Presented to the New Media Group, Victorian Government (Melbourne, March 2010), by Martin Stewart-Weeks, Director, Public Sector (Asia-Pacific), Internet Business Solutions Group
Social media tools - Coaching Material for Social Entrepreneursikosom GmbH
Description of Tools that can be used to increase the outreach of social media activities. This slide is part of the project "CE-RESPONSIBLE " by Interreg Central Europe. Hear the presentation at www.net4socialimpact.eu
Stories have the power to spark movements, raise armies of volunteers, and even change the world. But stories with impact don’t just happen—they’re strategically planned, creatively crafted and designed to achieve measurable outcomes. So once you have the right story, how can you make the most of it across social media, web, and email?
In this session, RJ Bee, the Senior Vice President of Hattaway Communications, explored how to use your organization’s best stories across channels for better outreach, fundraising, and impact reporting.
Nearly 25,000 people attended the SXSWi conference in Austin, Texas, held
in March 2012. At more than 1,000 panel discussions over the course of five days, rich
conversations followed more than 14 tracks, ranging from the impact of the digital
discourse on everything from education to culture, science + play to government.
In this brochure, you’ll find our technology/social media experts from MSLGROUP Americas – Mark
McClennan of Schwartz MSL Boston and Laura Chavoen of MSL Chicago -- sorting through and reacting to trends,
conference themes and take-aways.
Where to focus event innovation? - An audience led approachLive Union
Presented by Live Union at Tech Fest in July 2013. In the face of so much new event technology and format deign, this presentation is designed to help event professionals identify where to focus their innovation.
Research of usability of Mashup Tools done for Kent County Council as part of the Pic and Mix Pilot (2009), opening up Kent related datasets for all to use and exploit.
Designing and Developing an Online Micro-Module on Sustainability for City Un...Tanya Ahmed
The Project brief was to develop an online micro-module on sustainable development for all City University London students with content provided by The Centre for Food Policy. The primary learning outcome was to help improve student and staff understanding of the core elements of sustainability, its broad principles and key frameworks. A web based module was developed by the Centre for Human Computer Interaction Design and piloted in November 2009 with 200 undergraduate students at City University London.
Evaluating Impact: NLab, Amplified Leicester, and creative innovation via soc...Dr Sue Thomas
SEMINAR: Evaluating Impact: NLab, Amplified Leicester, and creative innovation via social media
Wednesday 8th June 2011, 4pm at the Institute of Creative Technologies De Montfort University, Leicester, UK .
Since 2005, DMU has initiated a series of projects which share a common focus of exploring social media as a means of stimulating creative innovation in business, non-profit, and community life in and around Leicester. They include NLab and CreativeCoffee Club (funded by HEIF, the Higher Education Innovation Fund) and Amplified Leicester (funded by NESTA, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts). Professor Sue Thomas has devised and directed these activities across the Faculty of Humanities and the Institute of Creative Technologies.
Emergence has been a dominant feature of all the projects and, despite being driven by different agendas, each has informed the shaping of the others. An important element has been the creation and evolution of spaces, both physical and intellectual, which support:
* the application of academic research to real-life problems
* the connection of cutting-edge research into social media innovation with local creative businesses
* the creation of a network linking De Montfort University with small businesses, non-profits, and local agencies
Dr Souvik Mukherjee has evaluated the impact of these projects both in relation to their importance for the Research Excellence Framework and with regard to indications of future developments building on current achievements. In the process, he has also gleaned valuable insights into the REF Impact agenda which will be of interest to colleagues in a wide range of disciplines.
Dr Mukherjee is a Research fellow in the Department of Media, Film and Journalism in the Faculty of Humanities. He is currently involved in analysing the impact of social media projects on communities, especially in relation to business innovation and transliteracy. Having completed his PhD on storytelling in New Media, especially focusing on videogame narratives, Souvik has published and presented papers on a range of related topics. Besides New Media, he also takes a keen interest in e-learning and has been involved in analysing online media and virtual learning network usage in higher education. After completing his project at DMU, Souvik intends to return home to India to develop New Media research networks there.
Digital Marketing And Events 2.0 Draft Ver6Martin Walsh
Here is a draft discussion paper I prepared to initiate change of how physical events are developed and executed in this era of digital marketing, social media marketing and Web 2.0.
Community Partnership in Civic Tech: Workshop, Code for America Summit 2015Laurenellen McCann
Slides from Laurenellen McCann's workshop at the Code for America 2015 Summit. This talk explores how civic technology is made today and explores alternative methods for creation based on real world examples that prioritize people and civic context above raw technology production. Based on research conducted by McCann and the Smart Chicago Collaborative as part of the Knight Foundation's Community Information Challenge. For more information (and to check out the accompanying book), head to http://smartchicagocollaborative.org/modes or http://buildwith.org.
“Six Lessons on Designing Public Prizes for Impact” looks at how foundations can use contests as a powerful tool to advance their work. The report therefore offers a valuable starting point for foundations and other organizations to leverage the benefits of contests.
It outlines Knight Foundation’s history and experiences with hosting challenges across all its program areas—media innovation and journalism, arts and communities. Readers can take advantage of six lessons, along with practical examples and tips, on designing public prizes for impact and running an effective contest. Also included are examples of work with specific grantees.
Find out more at www.knightfoundation.org/opencontests.
Presented to the New Media Group, Victorian Government (Melbourne, March 2010), by Martin Stewart-Weeks, Director, Public Sector (Asia-Pacific), Internet Business Solutions Group
Social media tools - Coaching Material for Social Entrepreneursikosom GmbH
Description of Tools that can be used to increase the outreach of social media activities. This slide is part of the project "CE-RESPONSIBLE " by Interreg Central Europe. Hear the presentation at www.net4socialimpact.eu
Stories have the power to spark movements, raise armies of volunteers, and even change the world. But stories with impact don’t just happen—they’re strategically planned, creatively crafted and designed to achieve measurable outcomes. So once you have the right story, how can you make the most of it across social media, web, and email?
In this session, RJ Bee, the Senior Vice President of Hattaway Communications, explored how to use your organization’s best stories across channels for better outreach, fundraising, and impact reporting.
Nearly 25,000 people attended the SXSWi conference in Austin, Texas, held
in March 2012. At more than 1,000 panel discussions over the course of five days, rich
conversations followed more than 14 tracks, ranging from the impact of the digital
discourse on everything from education to culture, science + play to government.
In this brochure, you’ll find our technology/social media experts from MSLGROUP Americas – Mark
McClennan of Schwartz MSL Boston and Laura Chavoen of MSL Chicago -- sorting through and reacting to trends,
conference themes and take-aways.
Where to focus event innovation? - An audience led approachLive Union
Presented by Live Union at Tech Fest in July 2013. In the face of so much new event technology and format deign, this presentation is designed to help event professionals identify where to focus their innovation.
Research of usability of Mashup Tools done for Kent County Council as part of the Pic and Mix Pilot (2009), opening up Kent related datasets for all to use and exploit.
Designing and Developing an Online Micro-Module on Sustainability for City Un...Tanya Ahmed
The Project brief was to develop an online micro-module on sustainable development for all City University London students with content provided by The Centre for Food Policy. The primary learning outcome was to help improve student and staff understanding of the core elements of sustainability, its broad principles and key frameworks. A web based module was developed by the Centre for Human Computer Interaction Design and piloted in November 2009 with 200 undergraduate students at City University London.
UXPG: Usability Review for CanadaHelps.orgMatthew Burpee
Created and presented by:
Jamy Li, User Experience Consultant
Julian Lising, Information Architect
Nathalie Crosbie, Sr. Information Architect / UX Designer
Matthew Burpee, Web Consultant
Talk given at Centre for HCI Design (HCID) Open Day, City University, on April 30th, 2015 #HCID2015
High street banks have made a concerted effort to move away from reliance on the physical branch, with innovations including photographing cheques to pay them in and the changing focus of branches from town centre to leisure locations (like shopping centres). We will explore how digital innovation is impacting the physical branch in banking, and whether the lines are blurring between the two. How is the digital experience different from the physical experience? Are our expectations of of both experiences different? How is this likely to change in the future?
http://www.interaction-lab.co.uk/hcid-open-2015-500pm-talks/
Presentation 1: Web 2.0 - Leading Applications in Government
Presenters:
Eric Bristow - Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting
Doug Shoupp – Principal, Deloitte Consulting
The hi:project: empowering you, empowering us, with a more human webThe hi:project
We pioneer the human interface, the successor to the user interface. We celebrate the human not the user, the individual not the worker, the person not the consumer, helping everyone contribute more value to and derive more value from society and the organizations in their lives.
Social media platforms are not just for a certain age group or segment of society; rather, they are widely used and have become an instant hit among people all over the world to discover, talk about different things, and share their feelings from anywhere at any time.
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Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
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Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
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• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
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Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
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Community, Collaboration, and Mashups
1. Community, Collaboration, and Mashups
Innovation and Empowerment in Local Government
Kent County Council Pic & Mix Project
Tanya Ahmed
August 2009
2. WHAT IS A MASHUP ?
A Mashup, or ‘web application hybrid’ is a web application
that combines or aggregates data from one or more sources
3. PIC & MIX PILOT PROJECT
Primary goal of the Pic & Mix Project from the Council’s point of view is to
evaluate what kind of data would be useful and relevant for the community.
Council is making their datasets freely available, and are designing a portal
were they can be used and aggregated with external data and applications
such as Google maps to produce something new.
The data that is being made available is business data, access to services,
economic and work deprivation, physical environment, and census area
statistics.
KCC are hopeful that community and user engagement in this digital age of
information will reveal some interesting results.
4. PIC & MIX PILOT PROJECT
The Council is using this study to determine what information people want,
but more importantly to determine what people need in order for their lives to
feel more enriched, more meaningful, and perhaps less frustrating on a daily
basis.
The ideas and mashups generated by the pilot project will then be introduced
for all to use and will become an integral part of our web experience as a
useful and meaningful social service.
5. PIC & MIX PILOT PROJECT
“At a very basic level, part of knowledge management is to know where knowledge, information and data are
stored. If you want to have more of a customer-focused service, then you need to know where that knowledge
and information is. If you’ve got it, you can re-engineer it in a way that customers can use via officers but also
– I suppose with the ‘Pic ‘n’ Mix’ project – by enabling people to use it themselves and create their own thing
out of it... If you enabled customers, users, communities to have that information, it would all be
part of that personalisation and empowerment agenda. But it would also hopefully create some new
information... It might be quite challenging, which is what we said when we did the competition, but that’s all
part of the democratic process.”
Carol Patrick, Kent’s Head of Innovation
6. PIC & MIX PILOT PROJECT
Pic n Mix Project could help people search for jobs in the area, help residents
find information about local services such as school and child care facilities in
the area, report petty crime, and provide information on local community
events.
Small and medium businesses in the local community have been involved in
the first stage of the pilot project - as the ‘focus group’ for usability study
This information will be made available on a web platform provided by the
council for them to play with. The platform will support web forums and, blogs
and ‘wikis’.
7. PIC & MIX PILOT PROJECT
As an example Google Maps could be combined with childcare facilities
and general information regarding the facilities.
This could then be combined or aggregated with information on
www.netmums.com to help parents make informed choices on childcare
facilities in their area.
This would be a powerful and useful tool or mashup for families within the
community.
Other members of the community could use the mashup as is, or they could
customise it to fit their requirements.
8. PEOPLE
COMMUNITY
INTERFACE
DATA
Interaction of People with Data through the Interface of the Web
9. PIC & MIX PILOT PROJECT
The challenge of the project is not only to convince people outside but also within
the organisation of the potential and relevance of the project in the enrichment of
everyone’s experience of living and being part of the local community.
“Another challenge we face is managing expectations - the tools are only as good
as the information provided. What we’ll be looking at is how to make that
information easily accessible and reusable.”
Noel Hatch, Projects and Innovation Lead for Innovation at Kent
10. PIC & MIX PILOT PROJECT
The sustainability and success of the project will depend on the usability of the
application and website, the simplicity of the user interface, and the presentation,
availability and the reliability of the data.
The activity-centred design methodology used to develop a social interface
needs to support and predict the user’s reactions at every stage of the ‘mashup
aggregation process’.
11. PIC & MIX PILOT PROJECT
Simple to use interface - It is imperative that the task of creating mashups
be as simple as possible, otherwise the danger is that people will not try the
service at all. Ultimately the success of the pilot project has the potential to
improve the quality of life within local areas and communities by empowering
users to generate and share their own content with one another.
Collaboration and Sharing - Users also need to be able to readily look at
and comment on other people’s mashups so that the collaborative spirit of
development and exchange of ideas can be nurtured.
Training Effectiveness - The effectiveness of the training will also play a part
in the future success of the project. The use of instructional step by step
videos will enable the learning process to be quick.
12. PIC & MIX PILOT PROJECT
Error Prevention and the potential recovery from error will also effect the
experience of the application.
Data Quality - The availability and reliability of data is paramount to the
success and usefulness of any mashup
13. THE WEB AS PLATFORM
LOOKING AT PIC & MIX WITHIN WIDER CONTEXT
15. Three Rules from Tim Berners-Lee
“If the past was document sharing, the future is data sharing.”
16. “I want you to put your data on the Web.” But how should we go about that?
To answer that question, he provides three points of instruction.
1. URL should point to the data.
2. Anyone accessing the URL should get data back.
3. Relationships in the data should point to additional URLs with data.”
20. PIC & MIX PILOT PROJECT
“The UK faces some big issues: climate change, an aging population, changing demographics, global
competition, etc. Increasingly, these issues are defying the conventional mechanisms we have for developing
and delivering the policy to address them.
This is where Web 2.0, or the social web, comes in. Frequently, when we think of Web 2.0, we think of blogs,
wikis, and social networks — and this is certainly the case. But Web 2.0 is more than than a collection of
internet tools. It is a philosophy. One of collaboration and user-involvement. The idea that through the efforts
and knowledge of many, we can tackle issues which far exceed the capacity of one.”
OpenGov
23. DESIGNING SOCIAL INTERFACE
Support Social Interaction Social design as the “conception, planning, and
production of websites and applications that support social interaction.
Understanding Behavior - Behavior is a function of both personality and
their environment. The environment encompasses everything around us,
whether it is the physical environment or the software or web interfaces we
use.
Understanding Usage Cycle of an Application The relationship a user will
have with a particular social website, application or software - dividing their
usage pattern into 5 stages. Their psychology and behaviour patterns playa
part in the cycle
25. FRAMEWORK FOR SOCIAL DESIGN
Focus on Primary Activity - Answer the question: What is your Audience
doing?
Identify Social Objects - Identify the objects that people interact with while
doing the activity
Choose your Core Feature Set - From the activity and objects derive a core
feature set answering the question: What are the actions people perform on the
objects, and which are important enough to support in the web application?
Understand importance of Pesonal Value of social software
27. FRAMEWORK FOR SOCIAL DESIGN
Detailed design document based on an activity centred design methodology.
Task Flow Diagrams and detailed descriptions of all the tasks necessary for a
user to complete an activity will laid out.
These Tasks will be based on research of using Yahoo Pipes and possibly
other mashup creation tools to see what issues arise. Observing others using a
tool like this will help inform the design of the mashup tool, with regards to the
features and considerations that need to be taken into account when working
on the design documentation.
28. FRAMEWORK FOR SOCIAL DESIGN
Wireframes will then be created and will help with the visualisation of the
activity-based design document.
These deliverables will be handed over to Kent County Council at this stage for
discussion with the application development team. User testing will also be
conducted at a later date once the Mashup Tool (Beta Tool) has been launched
and the pilot stage is underway.
The results of user testing can then be combined to provide a holistic view of
the Pic & Mix pilot at the end of the study when a review will be done.
29. PIC & MIX PILOT PROJECT
The Pic & Mix Pilot can be seen as the prototype phase within the larger context of local councils engaging
with members of the community to deliver services and information that they need, rather than delivering
services that the council wants to deliver. It is all about empowering people to challenge and change local
councils and government’s policies and methods of dealing with the ‘general public.
A user-centric approach where the individual is at the center of the public policy is the new model which
mirrors how the world wide web and web 2.0 technologies have turned passive individuals into active
information and knowledge sharing participants - or ‘information aggregators’.
The liberating of data, whether it is enterprise data or government data, in the spirit of democracy and
transparency is a powerful idea. In a similar way the user is at the center of any social networking website on
the world wide web. This is the “design pattern” for a digital society.