Class 5

Class #5 Assignments are due on July 12, 2008, at 8 AM.

We're putting the finishing touches on our Joomla websites, and we're still thinking about social networking and its impact on business and the web today.

Joomla-specific deliverables

  • Fill out missing content on your Joomla site
  • Get some extensions installed
  • Get the template tweaked the way you like

Discussion deliverables

  • Complete the discussion question in Moodle.
  • Register for Digg and/or Del.icio.us and give it a try, if you have not done so already.

Other items to complete

All of the books should have been read by this point, and you should be drawing wisdom from them when answering discussion questions.

Movies

 
Bokardo - Social Design by Joshua Porter
A Blog about Social Web Design
  • Are Designers also Marketers?
    Kathy Sierra says we’re all marketers: “In this new open-source/cluetrain world, I am a marketer. And so are you. If you’re interested in creating passionate users, or keeping your job, or breathing life into a startup, or getting others to contribute to your open source project, or getting your significant other to agree to the vacation [...]
  • Book Recommendation: Letting Go of the Words
    If there is one book you should read next, it’s “Letting Go of the Words” by Ginny Redish The other morning I changed my about section here on Bokardo to this: “Bokardo is a blog about interface design for social web sites and applications. I write about recommendation systems, identity, ratings, privacy, comments, profiles, tags, reputation, [...]
  • The Live Web
    We’re building tools to watch the world change… Doc Searls has a wonderful post on his long-time meme: The Live Web. What I like about Doc is that he knows words matter. So when he talks about the Web he uses specific words and phrases that frame discussion. He says that when people treat their web [...]

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