Here are a few more good articles/posts about this ongoing conversation about Identity and Google +. This is a hot potato and people need to speak out against the policies that Google has set forth. They are discriminatory and do not promote true social engagements. “Real Names” Policies Are an Abuse of Power Google+ and [...]
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More good posts about the Identity issues with Google +
by erin on 09/04/2011
Recently Google launched Google Plus and in the process, they have required that people use their real names as their identity. This is causing tremendous issues—suspension of accounts deemed not “real”, suspending accounts because of pseudonyms. In our book, Christian and I talk about identity, about owning your words and owning your reputation. We proposed [...]
Very nicely done infographic showing the history of various social media services.
Web 2.0 SF – O’Reilly Book Authors Meet and Greet 05/05/10
by erin on 05/04/2010
in book,Conferences,Designing Social Interfaces,Social,social patterns
Yesterday I led a 3 hour workshop on Designing Social In – Using Patterns, Practices and Anti-Patterns to Create Meaningful Social Experiences – at Web 2.0 in San Francisco. Slides posted here. Christian played assistant this time since he was prepping for a big talk today. I think it went well (although you have to [...]
Lately I have been thinking a lot about identity online and how things like age and gender affect how you approach projecting an online identity. Working with a startup that is creating opportunities for kids to be digital citizens with ownershop and accountability for their online identities made me wonder about what should be encouraged [...]
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New Article up at Boxes and Arrows
by erin on 12/23/2009
An article companion to part of the talk I have been giving is finally up at Boxes and Arrows. The topic – 5 steps to building social experiences – covers the 5 practices section of the talk. Taken together with the article Christian wrote for ASIST, on the 5 principles and 5 anti-patterns, you have [...]
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Unintended Side Effects
by erin on 11/21/2009
in Information design,Interaction design,Social,social patterns
I have been presenting the material from our book over the last several months and have been asked questions about some of the anti-patterns and how we avoid or solve them. Most recently at Web 2.0, I was talking with a bunch of smart, interesting people and a few things have bubbled up that I [...]
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With the delivery of the book manuscript to our editor and it moving into copy editing and production, we have started thinking about some of the associated things we want to have with the book. One of them is a large poster showing the ecosystem of the social landscape. We had a couple of drafts [...]
Our book stub is finally on Amazon. It’s really real – the whole process is surreal to me. But you can pre-order the Designing Social Interfaces book on Amazon. We are targeting a September 2009 release and are just about to enter revision mode. We received really good feedback from our technical reviewers and we [...]
Designing Social Interfaces – the Web 2.0 Expo version
by erin on 03/31/2009
Social Patterns Talk – Web 2.0 version View more presentations from Erin Malone. We gave a 3 hour workshop this morning at Web 2.0. Expanded info about the taxonomy. We created 5 scenarios with possible patterns and examples from the wild. This is super expanded from the talk we gave in Memphis.
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ia summit 2009 talk on designing social interfaces
by erin on 03/23/2009
in Information Architecture,Information design,Interaction design,Pattern Library,Social
Designing Social Interfaces View more presentations from Erin Malone. Christian Crumlish and I brought out some of the material we have been working on for you book and gave a talk at the IA Summit. We tried to provide a handful of real world scenarios with which a designer might find themselves in and then [...]
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Designing Social Interfaces Core Conversation & Handout
by erin on 03/16/2009
We had a core conversation at SXSW on Sunday which was quite interesting to me and I hope interesting to people attending. The audience brought up some great questions and we spent a bit of time talking about ethics which we don’t talk about in depth in the book other than reminding designers to think [...]
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We, Christian Crumlish, Lucas Pettinati and I, taught our Patterns Library workshop on Friday morning and I think it went really well. The feedback has been good so far and now I am very excited about taking the longer workshop to the IA Summit. We have more material and more exercises and ideas for more [...]
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The other night at dinner, a friend asked how the book was coming and what part I was working on now. I mentioned I was writing about communication and activity and about to start a chapter in our “What’s Next” section of the book. The question started us talking about what IS coming next? Everything [...]
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