2 posts tagged “ugc”
Another of my forays into the UX of User Generated Content can be found here. That's right, it's a wiki. If you have any interest in toy cameras, join! But, um, realize that at this point I've only started roughing out a content structure. It's sooo not in any state of done-ness...as if wikis are ever "done", but you know what I mean.
So, I have a Livejournal where mostly I post the mundane details of my workouts. Why? Because I need some pseudo-public accountability and someone who likes to see those details reads my LJ for them (though he's been reading for *years*, he's never bothered to join...though he did randomly comment once). And I have a professional blog of sorts. And even though I haven't updated it in months, there are still plenty of things sitting on the back burner waiting to go up.
Given the existence of those two, why am I considering resurrecting this? Mostly because I've reached a place on my LJ where I'm not all that interested in sharing personal stuff--too many former friends and whatnot still lurk around that place. And also because I've found that in order to do my job, I have to not only maintain a presence in various online communities, but I have to be actively exploring and playing with the tools. (If you have even an inkling of an idea of how many UGC/community/socially focused sites there are out there these days, then yes, this is absolutely as time-consumiing as it sounds.)
And now, I'm off to poke at the Ning community that I've ignored for months.
