#lets get digital

[greetingsprogram1982]

[duckulamoved]

all ive got to show for myself tonight are gyro and some ocs. for those just tuning in, benny tweetswell (and nega benny at the bottom) and bartholomew the terrible unicorn. also im occanon ship til the day i leave this rock. 

[trilby-hat]

That girl thinks she’s the Queen of the neighbourhood, 

I got news for you, she is!

[duckulamoved]

Benny thinks he’s a functional gay but he’s a disaster through and through. 

[davidporteriv]

Implementation Pt. 2

At the conclusion of last week we felt like we had discussed most of our features and the logistics that surround them in enough detail that we were ready to move forward in creating a detailed user flow document to include in our final presentation. Our focus shifted towards elevating our idea into business. An important component of this is branding and the company name. This was one of the more challenging parts in our solution. We tossed around some fun ideas, like Schooral (school + rural), but ended up feeling like having a more straightforward name would best maintain a professional vibe for the site. Eventually we landed on RuralTeach because the name clearly communicates who our target audience is for use of the website itself. As a group, we came to the conclusion that our selling audience would be district and school administrators.

We also spent time creating a color palette to use for our site by independently pinning different images and pictures to a shared Pinterest dashboard. Following the lead of the designers in our group, we sorted through the colors we felt would complement each other best and be attractive to the user experience on the site. While working on the specifics of the features, the team came together to share feedback on our initial impressions on the dashboard/home page’s 1st iteration. Some of the feedback shared was that a user may feel somewhat overwhelmed with the number of features that are presented. The designers in our group went back to the drawing board and spent time iterating on the product more, which resulted in removing some features altogether based on what would be our product’s primary goals. 

Before departing to do more individual work, we resurfaced our conversation from prior weeks on how to be more productive as a unit. Understanding that we had those in our group who had experience in design and others who were more business oriented, we reviewed the major points that needed to be hit during the presentation of our final product and will work in sub groups for efficiency’s sake. The designers plan to focus on the actual solution to our problem statement, and the business minded teammates will spend time thinking through our team’s problem solving process and telling the story on how we arrived at our solution, as well as how it can be implemented.

[mina-berlin]

Digital Coffee Talks #work #gendarmenmarkt #berlin

[visibilityblog]

We need your vote!

Visibility has reached the finals of the People's Millions 2013.

Voting Phone Number is 0871 62 68 135 

If we win we will secure one year funding to run a series of training sessions across the west of Scotland, helping people with sight loss to discover and learn how to use digital technology. REad more about the project here: http://www.peoplesmillions.org.uk/2013-finalists/stv-west/lets-get-digital 

To win we need to secure the highest number of phone votes on the day that our promotional video is shown on STV. That day is 28th November. 

The number will also be published on the day here on our personal People's Millions page 

It will cost only 11p to ring the number from a landline (mobiles cost more) and have your vote recorded, and you can make up to 10 calls from the same phone number so that is 10 votes for just £11. If you could then persuade 9 other people to also make 10 calls that would be 100 votes!! We have been advised that we will need at least 6,000 votes to be in with a chance of winning so we really, really do need your help.

Thank you. 

[samig]

Sooo... this happened:

http://tradiov.com/la/videos/lets-get-digital-revenge-of-the-nerds-reunion/

And by this I mean my co-ed fraternity was on with the director and some of the actors from the movie "Revenge of the Nerds"! I couldn't go because I had to do a tech observation for my stage management class, but I watched it when I got back to my room (instead of writing that essay, oops) and it was totally awesome! They even offered to get us the sweaters! Although, I hope they realize that there are 40-ish active members of the fraternity... they go for $55 online, so I'm hoping that they get a special rate for being part of the creation or something because that's a lot of money.

But if I get a sweater, I will cherish it forever.

Also, I wonder if we could get permission to stack the letters, since we're going to be getting the sweaters and all.