Differences about citizen identity and the engagement goals directly shape the most basic design decisions. Thus, a model based on organizations sponsoring issue pages and bringing kids to those orgs (a more conventional civic model) – lead us to wanting kids to see the whole “news” site when they log in.
By contrast, a sense that personal networking better reflects kids identity preferences and describes emerging forms of political action leads to thinking that kids should see their profile page first and move from there into the site.
The challenge is to find ways to make moving out into the site – visiting/joining groups etc.– attractive to the kids. If the site is going to do something new, it is in figuring out how to make this movement attractive.
Entry Filed under: PSO website development, conceptions of citizenship
November 5th, 2007 at 05:53am
Lance Bennett
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Something to pay attention to, some big companies are trying to pass some new principles to protect copyright infringements in sites that host UGC (youthcommons would qualify as one). Some of this requirements are quite complex.
http://www.ugcprinciples.com/
Electronic Freedom Frontier response:
http://www.eff.org/issues/ip-and-free-speech/fair-use-principles-usergen
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Entry Filed under: legal and privacy
November 3rd, 2007 at 10:22pm
Adri
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Seattle Public Library
Chris Tugwell and I met with Jennifer Bisson on October 5th. We asked Jennifer about possibilities for collaboration, and she focused on the group of teens she is working with at the downtown library once a week (they meet from 4-5pm Thursdays). The teen group at the library this year will be divided into a myspace group, an audiocast group and a marketing group.
We discussed the possibility of letting the library borrow the YMCA’s video equipment or collaborating with them to make videos for their audiocast group. Teens could collaborate on interviews and editing – maybe around authors that come to town. The library also has spring programming planned around theater and hip-hop. May 2nd will be the all ages arts night again. Immigrant and hip-hop focus is likely. We discussed the possibility of posting their student’s book reviews. We also discussed having our youth meet in person. Writers in the schools seemed like a good possibility for doing a joint project as well.
Chris Tugwell followed up with Jennifer over email a couple of weeks after our meeting, and we are attempting to move forward with a small-scale collaboration with them in the short term.
The Vera Project
Toby had the opportunity to meet with several staff from the Vera Project at the end of October. Staff their expressed an interest in concrete partnerships that dovetail well with their current activities and mission. They receive dozens of inquiries regarding potential partnerships each week, so they must be selective and strategic about the partners they choose to work with.
My feeling (Toby) is that we should keep a partnership with Vera in mind for the future. They’ve got a great youth governance structure that we could learn from, and the physical venue space they have for shows would be a wonderful resource to pair with our website and curriculum on civic engagement once the Puget Sound Off project develops further. For the time being though, I think we should hold off on partnering with Vera until we can approach them with something concrete that is thoughtfully tailored to their mission and activities.
Further Partnerships Update
Toby and Chris Tugwell are working together to come up with a short list of partners we would like to reach out to in the near term, and will continue to reach out to new partners in the coming weeks.
Entry Filed under: partner strategy
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:03pm
Toby Campbell
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