London IA Upgrade
London IA group has eventually received its upgrade – no more Google Ads. Phew. Ning’s new business model is well documented and we secured the sponsorship for the year from Zebra People. Thanks Zebra People. The site now has a very clean feel to it which has gone some way to highlighting a distinct lack of activity (especially divided against the numbers of members). A core bunch of members (or ‘The Usual Suspects’ as they are sometimes known) drive most of the activity but there are quite a number of ‘outliers’ who need to be encouraged to get involved on a more regular basis. There are a range of things everyone can do – and it really can’t just be all me (otherwise the site is going to end up looking like my soapbox).
I made a list and was initially just going to share it with Martin, Tom and Ken but then realised that it needs to be seen by everyone so we can all get working at it and there is a democratic process in deciding the priority of action.
London IA is our community and we need to make it grow and be useful to everyone that visits it.
1. London IA film night needs a location
2. RSS feeds from blogs of London IA members and a London IA bog roll
3. What other RSS feeds can we pipe in? Johnny Holland, what else? What are you reading. Sharing Instapaper starred items. Google Reader shared items
4. Integration with activity on UX Exchange (http://uxexchange.com/) – an RSS feed of current activity
5. Should we set up Twitter or Facebook integration on the Network? (I don’t use Facebook and don’t know the level of use by London IA members. I obviously realise that Twitter use is endemic.)
6. We need to integrate how our sponsors, Zebra People, are threaded through the network
7. RSS feed of the LBi and Johnny Holland events calendar. (Coming Soon is an event site from Zebra People and UX People that can also be integrated.)
8. We Need Help. Would anyone like to help with organising London IA events? Get in touch with me to discuss.
9. London IA is starting a new Workshop strand. First up is a EuroIA Predux event where the five sets of London speakers who are presenting at EuroIA in September get the chance to rehearse their presentations in front of each other. (More details on London IA in the next couple of days.)
10. As a resource a page collecting together member’s past presentations – maybe powered by Slideshare
11. Philip Winwood is keeping London IA Jobs going. Shall we put up a link to the group pages (or maybe even integrating a feed of the latest opportunities.
12. A general resource section linking to great resources for sketching tools, research practice, interview techniques and guidelines, guerilla usability testing (ie Martin’s posts on this subject on Currybet)
13. Magazines we like
14. A virtual bookcase: Who’s writing a book. Upcoming books of note. Shared Amazon wishlists. Who’s reading what.
15. Someone needs to post about UXBrighton events please (especially their big event next month)
16. Someone needs to post about London Web Standards events and maybe South London Geeks. What else? Any ideas
17. Shall we integrate London IA members Flickr accounts? What other type of user activity from the internets can we integrate?
18. London IA Mentoring
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