well im off for england for the holidays
currently busigo.org is down because i needed the webspace for a project for another class but it will be back up once i get back from england towards the end of break. .
For information on my project browse my blog or visit my pool entry, have a great break everyone.
Friday, December 21, 2007
Monday, November 26, 2007
BusiGo.org
BusiGo now has a home at busigo.org
its still at a very simple stage but i have the space now so i should be good to go
its still at a very simple stage but i have the space now so i should be good to go
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Text proposal
BusiGo
A proposal by Evan Turnquist
Abstract
BusiGo will be an online community targeting young and new business owners in need of web designers to bring their business into the Internet arena. This community will be equally for the upcoming and unknown designers. Business owners will be offered a forum to post s
pecific needs they may have such as a website or logo for their business. On the other side, designers will have an opportunity to post theirs skills and freelance their work or look through the owners needs and find projects that appeal to them and make connections.
Why
This is needed because there are many young designers who aren't established yet. This community can springboard designers into creating portfolios and getting real world experience for their trade. There are also many business owners who don't know where to start when it comes to taking their business online and this community can connect them with peop
le who know how to help them and get them going. The target is for new business owners. For example you could think of a business major student leaving college and starting a landscaping business. They would not have the resources to find or perhaps pay for professional established designers. This site is needed because it allows new artists and business owner
s to cut out the expensive middle man that rakes off the top while building their portfolios and business.
Where
The problem I've found is that many sites that cater to business owners online needs direct them to their staff of established designers ready to serve. How does a new or casual designer break into the market. Not everyone has their own personal site for their craft and if they do its hard to get a lot of traffic there to work with. A community of new and established artists working with new and established business is something I can't find.
When
Who
Presently there are no collaborators for this project. What's interesting is that the people that may be interested in this service or community may be interested in collaborating on the project
itself. Since BusiGo is intended to be a tool for these two groups of people, anyone from either side may want to help according to their respective talents. I don't plan on this happening but it is certainly a possibility.
How
BusiGo Budget
| Website Designer | Evan Turnquist | $10 per hour | 150 hours | $1,500.00 |
| Software | Adobe Photoshop | $649.99 | 1 Copy | $649.99 |
| Hosting | easyCGI | $7.96 per month | 12 months | $95.52 |
| Domain Name | BusiGo.org | $10 | 1 year | $10.00 |
| Total Cost |
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| $2,255.51 |
Legal Agreements
No legal agreements are currently expected.
Spreading the word
At the early stages of this project I will be going by word of mouth getting the initial posts up.
Once the original users are posting I will be advertising on the Internet through blogs and other community networking sites such as thefacebook to get more users.
Monday, October 15, 2007
Moving Forward
Been looking at some sites that are related to my capstone project but im not really finding anything new thats sparked an idea for my current project.. im feeling pretty useless doing more research and plan to start building the site this week becuase usually I can further an idea better by actually creating it and working through flaws as they occur.
Basically not much to post about now but soon there will be approaches and things to look at.
Basically not much to post about now but soon there will be approaches and things to look at.
Monday, October 1, 2007
What is New Media - Jenkins
My capstone best fits the networked trait of the new media landscape. This is because my project focuses on bringing many people to many others in a way that was not possible in previous methods of communications.
Least like my capstone is the everyday trait. I'm not sure where exactly my project would fit here, nor do I believe it should. This trait seems to be pretty cosmetic and I'm not sure how I could or would want to emulate this trait.
I agree with many of Jenkins definitions although I do find that some of them although accurate are not desirable. "In some ways, these technologies have been a wedge between family members; young people often deploy media to cut themselves off from the people around them." This statement although true is a look at the problems with new media. Unfortunately my project doesn't do anything to combat this flaw.
Least like my capstone is the everyday trait. I'm not sure where exactly my project would fit here, nor do I believe it should. This trait seems to be pretty cosmetic and I'm not sure how I could or would want to emulate this trait.
I agree with many of Jenkins definitions although I do find that some of them although accurate are not desirable. "In some ways, these technologies have been a wedge between family members; young people often deploy media to cut themselves off from the people around them." This statement although true is a look at the problems with new media. Unfortunately my project doesn't do anything to combat this flaw.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
control over their work
So another problem I am going to attempt to face is the designers control over their work. Many times they will release what they have done and be shot down or asked to rework and in many times completely redo what is needed. The issue with this is many times business owners may not realize what is the best design. This will be a difficult issue to tackle because ultimately it is the business owners right to go with what they want. What I may try to do to handle this is devote a section to critiques. This section would allow both sides to post the work created or created for them and have other designers make critiques on the work and have other business owners make comments that may help as well. I think this will really bring together the community feel and make people want to help each other more. This will also give designers the chance for others in their field to stand behind their work as good design to help the business owners understand. This is just a start because this may end up being the most important or new detail of the site setting it apart from other similar services.
Similar existing sites
So I found a similar site but with a different feel.
http://www.buyerzone.com/internet/site_design/qz_questions_678.jhtml
This site is entirely about already existing design firms and matching new and existing businesses with what they need.
What is different about what I'm doing is that instead of giving a list of bubbled questions to fill out and be sorted and sent on your way, I'm trying to create a community for discussion and mutual benefit for both parties involved. Also the biggest difference is my site is going to focus more on the designer. The only sites I could find like the link above and other similar services were for design firms, not for the college age, unemployed, or casual designer.
http://www.buyerzone.com/internet/site_design/qz_questions_678.jhtml
This site is entirely about already existing design firms and matching new and existing businesses with what they need.
What is different about what I'm doing is that instead of giving a list of bubbled questions to fill out and be sorted and sent on your way, I'm trying to create a community for discussion and mutual benefit for both parties involved. Also the biggest difference is my site is going to focus more on the designer. The only sites I could find like the link above and other similar services were for design firms, not for the college age, unemployed, or casual designer.
The designer
One thing that was mentioned was to empower the designer. How do I make sure that the designers are not getting used as slave labor in this project.
My first thought to avoid this is to have several sections instead of just two main ones (the help offered and the help needed) this will be expanded to many sections but my thoughts now are for at least 4. On the business owner side there will be a Professional Help needed section for current established business owners to look for hired work. The second section would be for more loose organizations that are not in need of a designer but would be interested a logo or website if offered. This 2nd free hire section is to help achieve my original intent of being an outlet for designers to get started or get their foot in the door or just see if online design is for them. The other side of the site would have two sections for the desginers to match the business side. One section for established designers looking for paying work and another for new designers or people interested only in developing or expanding their portfolio.
I think this distinction will not only attract more people to the site but also a wider range of experience and need.
My first thought to avoid this is to have several sections instead of just two main ones (the help offered and the help needed) this will be expanded to many sections but my thoughts now are for at least 4. On the business owner side there will be a Professional Help needed section for current established business owners to look for hired work. The second section would be for more loose organizations that are not in need of a designer but would be interested a logo or website if offered. This 2nd free hire section is to help achieve my original intent of being an outlet for designers to get started or get their foot in the door or just see if online design is for them. The other side of the site would have two sections for the desginers to match the business side. One section for established designers looking for paying work and another for new designers or people interested only in developing or expanding their portfolio.
I think this distinction will not only attract more people to the site but also a wider range of experience and need.
building the site...
So I have made some simple websites before and have a bit experience with creating them but I am currently rusty. To create a community like this I'm going to first need to cover the basics again and then go a little deeper to make this come out nice. I don't think these 3 links deserve their own post so I'm just grouping them together for a small reference as to where I'm going to be relearning the technical side of creating a site.
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/
http://www.w3schools.com/
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/
Im pretty sure I'll be looking at a lot more than just these three but they are definately a good start.
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/
http://www.w3schools.com/
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/
Im pretty sure I'll be looking at a lot more than just these three but they are definately a good start.
My Project, an Explanation
I think something important that I need on my blog is a good explanation of what I intend to do.
I plan on creating an online community meant for young business people and young online designers. The goal is to make a place available for both of these groups to find each other and then accomplish both their goals which I believe may be hard to do when you are getting started.
The idea is a young business owner or maybe its just an intramural sports team leader or a campus organization president, or anything really needs a logo or a website made, or wants to learn to do it on their own. What they would do is make a post in the looking for help section. Then a young freelance designer browses the help wanted section and if he finds something he can or would like to do he contacts the person who made the post
This can also work the opposite way. Freelance designer can post their qualifications or some of their work to the help offering section and the business owners can browse through there to get in touch with someone who can help them.
The main initial intention is to create a way for less established artists and college students studying design to get a foot in the door and get some real world projects for a portfolio they can show to future employers or possibly even get them started before creating their own design firms.
I plan on creating an online community meant for young business people and young online designers. The goal is to make a place available for both of these groups to find each other and then accomplish both their goals which I believe may be hard to do when you are getting started.
The idea is a young business owner or maybe its just an intramural sports team leader or a campus organization president, or anything really needs a logo or a website made, or wants to learn to do it on their own. What they would do is make a post in the looking for help section. Then a young freelance designer browses the help wanted section and if he finds something he can or would like to do he contacts the person who made the post
This can also work the opposite way. Freelance designer can post their qualifications or some of their work to the help offering section and the business owners can browse through there to get in touch with someone who can help them.
The main initial intention is to create a way for less established artists and college students studying design to get a foot in the door and get some real world projects for a portfolio they can show to future employers or possibly even get them started before creating their own design firms.
What is New Media - Manovich
Lev Manovich's definition that new media is based around the computerization of the globe also fits in with my capstone. With my capstone bringing people together online for a chance to be mutually beneficial to each other all from their keyboard, I feel that my capstone synches pretty well with his definition but mostly because it fits the vehicle that he says is the the main part of new media. I think my project fits best with the transcoding principle in that it will have a computer layer as the vehicle (being the site that will be created as a meeting center) and a cultural level where interactions occur. I think least like my capstone is the automation principle because my community will be entirely user based and any creation or interaction will come from the designers or the business owners. I'm not sure how I could integrate Lev's principles into my capstone better so I will need to spend more time on that and see what I come up with.
I certainly agree with Lev Manovich's definition and I read a lot of discussion of how it effects culture but I dont see as much as I would like to see of how culture effects his version of new media and how they play off each other and continue to grow.
I certainly agree with Lev Manovich's definition and I read a lot of discussion of how it effects culture but I dont see as much as I would like to see of how culture effects his version of new media and how they play off each other and continue to grow.
What is New Media - Crosbie
As far as Crosbies definition of new media. I believe my capstone fits in. My cap stone which brings many artists and young business owners together and lets them at the same time look for each other in mass ways and in one on one situations. This seems to fit in with the many to many communications ideal of the new communications medium.
I agree with Crosbie's definition because it's important to distinguish between the 3 communications media and the vehicles that we use to navigate these media. Many to many is the new medium of communications, the internet is not new media its a path, some computer games, photoshop, http, and many other things we may consider new media are actually new media vehicles.
I agree with Crosbie's definition because it's important to distinguish between the 3 communications media and the vehicles that we use to navigate these media. Many to many is the new medium of communications, the internet is not new media its a path, some computer games, photoshop, http, and many other things we may consider new media are actually new media vehicles.
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