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design, open data, social media and relevance

Posted by on December 6th, 2010 · Uncategorized

Recently, inventor and writer Mark Pesce blogged about web 2.0 and underlying motivations for why people engage collaboratively on crowdsourced web projects. What I like about this post is how he has grounded design theory in a number of social behaviours that drive web 2.0 and social media: sharing, connecting, contributing, regulating, and iterating. It is a very good discussion of value in today’s standards of web content, where relevance and currency is dependant on the openness of your data.

When you think about your design – both technically and from the user’s experience – you must consider how open you want to be, and weigh the price of openness (extra work, unpredictability) against the price of being closed (less useful).  The highest praise you can receive for your work is when someone wants to use it in their own. For this to happen, you have to leave the door open for them.  If you publish the APIs to access the data you collect; if you build your work modularly, with clearly defined interfaces; if you use standards such as RSS and REST where appropriate, you will create something that others can re-use.

Mark Pesce – The Soul of Web 2.0 (Nov 2010) (read the whole post)

Vienna Spring Program 2011

Posted by on November 30th, 2010 · 2011, Short courses

Application period is now open!

We are pleased to announce the opening of the application period for the Vienna Spring Programwu! The program, which runs from May 15 – 27, 2011, is geared towards graduate MBA students who want a well-rounded short-term academic program.  The theme of the program is Doing Business in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and features lectures by WU professors who are experts in the field of CEE Business strategies.  In addition to lectures, students are also taken to some of Austria’s and Hungary´s top international companies to get a practical perspective on how companies market in the CEE region.  The program participants are also taken to two countries in the CEE region, Hungary and the Slovakia, to get a real feel for Eastern Europe and are offered a social program in Vienna and the region that features visits to traditional Viennese restaurants and bars, concerts and city tours. 

 We hope you will inform your students about this program, especially those students who want to study abroad but are not able to do an entire semester abroad.  The 2 week time frame of the Vienna Spring ProgramWU is ideal for these students.  From now until February 15, 2011, students are able to apply online for the 2011 Vienna Spring Programwu! After completing the online form, students must print it out and sign it, and send it along with the following:

  • Typewritten curriculum vitae
  • Letter of motivation
  • Official university transcripts 
  • 1 passport sized photograph

Please refer to our website for more program details: www.wu.ac.at/io/en/incomings/vsp.

Students from UNSW interested in this program should complete and UNSW Outbound Application form and send it to INTEX@unsw.edu.au :

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Mono re:coloured

Posted by on November 30th, 2010 · Uncategorized

This is our current take on colours – it injects two secondary colours which makes the mono a bit brighter without confusing the eye as much as the teal/orange version.

Keep in mind that the block of red /green (see image) will normally be mostly hidden – this much colour is only while looking at the sub menus.

Bucerius Summer Program in International Business Law 2011

Posted by on November 29th, 2010 · 2011, Short courses
What we offer

  • a specially designed English-taught summer program in law
  • courses taught by well-known professors and practitioners in an environment that enhances an understanding of the international dimensions of business law
  • a curriculum providing opportunities to interact with international professors and students
  • a month spent in the Hanseatic city of Hamburg, Germany’s trendy city on the waterfront
  • numerous extracurricular activities organized by the International Office

What we require

  • at least one year of previous law studies
  • if the main language of instruction at the home university is not English, applicants must submit proof of English proficiency (TOE FL, IELTS , CAE , CPE or ILEC )

When & where

  • July 17 – August 12, 2011 in Hamburg, Germany

Application deadline

  • January 10, 2011 / April 30, 2011

For further details see:

 

Students from UNSW interested in this program should complete and UNSW Outbound Application form and send it to INTEX@unsw.edu.au :

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AGSM MBA Programs Newsletter – Week 12

Posted by on November 29th, 2010 · Newsletter

This week’s video newsletter

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Winnie Vo, Career Services, AGSM MBA Programs


Delivery of Course Materials for Session 1, 2011

Please ensure your courier address is up to date on myUNSW immediately to ensure correct delivery of your course materials. Please note you must enter a ‘Courier’ address.

End of Session Feedback

Please be advised that the end of session feedback surveys will be distributed to you this week. Your assistance in providing feedback about your courses is greatly appreciated.

Intensive & GCCM Students: Please ensure you complete the feedback questionnaire on eLearning. Please note that the questionnaire is different to those collected at the Intensive workshops.

End of Session Exams – Saturday 11 December

All NSW students (CBD, Kensington, Parramatta, North Sydney, North Ryde, as per your courier address on myUNSW) will be sitting their exams at one central venue in the Wentworth Building, University of Sydney.  All other students will sit their exam at their usual class venue. Intensive students will be sitting in their home state (as per courier address).

If you need to change your exam venue, you need to let us know by 3rd December 2010.

GCCM NSW students will be sitting their exam in the AGSM Building.  Interstate students will sit the exam in the Cliftons venues alongside GDM students. Any overseas-based GCCM students will need to organise their own venue and invigilator.

Cancellation of Parramatta and CBD6 Marketing Management class this week

A reminder that the following Marketing Management week 12 classes have been cancelled:

– Parramatta PAR1, Tuesday 30th November, 6pm class – Instructor: Con Korkofingas.

– Sydney CBD6, Wednesday 1st December, 6pm class – Instructor: Con Korkofingas.

Change to S1, 2011 class schedule – IT & Organisational Performance (Perth)

Please note, ITOP Perth format has changed from normal face to face to ITOP Teletutorial class.

ITOP Tele class will have a 1.5 hour class once per week on Monday and will be held by telephone.  Workshops will be face to face and will depend on where the students are as to where the workshop and time will be. Check the Session 1, 2011 Class timetable.

Change to Session 1, 2011 Course Calendar: MKTM assessment due 10 April

Please note that the Marketing Management Intensive date of assessment has changed from 17 April to 10 April 2011. Please refer to the following link for the updated calendar.

Session 1, 2011 Tuition Fee payment

Tuition fees for Session 1 are due by 13 February. Your fee statement is available from your student profile on myUNSW 24 hours after you enrol – payment is also done via myUNSW.

Strategic Management Year Applications

The SM Year application outcomes for the 2011 January Intake were sent to students via the email address they used to submit their original application. If you have applied, but have not yet received an email please contact us.

Key Dates

A list of key dates for 2011 is available in the Student Resources section of the AGSM Website:

It is important to refer to the Table of Key Dates for all enrolment, withdrawal and discontinuation deadlines, as well as the session census date. This table illustrates the academic and financial penalties incurred for withdrawals throughout the session.

Events

November 2010

Brisbane: End-of-year Celebration Drinks, Jade Buddha (in the Jade Lounge), 1 Eagle Street, Brisbane, 30 Nov. Bookings essential

December 2010

Melbourne: End-of-year Networking Drinks, Silk Road (Dynasty Room), 425 Collins Street, Melbourne, 1 Dec

The Melbourne alumni committee is offering 1 free drink to everyone that pre-registers for the event by Monday 29th November. So book now!

We encourage students to access the events page regularly to keep up to date with events organised by alumni branches for alumni, students and their guests.

Where mono and social meet.

Posted by on November 29th, 2010 · Uncategorized

Here is a pass at integrating the two looks — social and mono. What we’re preferring is the `social gravity` look which looses the orange and moves the mono grey into a cool muted naval colour. It’s a little too close to UNSW blue possibly.

Also included is an experiment where we just rolled the social colours over the mono look — it’s called `Social plus`.

Feedback is, as usual, welcomed.

Four elements of successful online communities

Posted by on November 26th, 2010 · Uncategorized

I thought this DAAO blog would be a great place to share the direction I’m going with looking at community engagement, especially with regards to social media strategy. As part of my literature review, I’m looking at practical guides to social media, and this post is a little foray into the ideas coming though in this field.

Tharon Howard (2010) has a nice way of talking about successful elements of online communities. These are renumeration, influence, belonging and significance. This structure is  useful because it foregrounds sociability – social beings in a social context. And, if there’s one thing I’ve noticed about successful how to books on social media and web design, it’s the chatty informal tone of people talking about people. (see also Brown 2006, Weinschenk, 2010)

Remuneration: or the return on investment of peoples’ time and energy. This element can be reflected in the interface design, in the information architecture, the content…etc. Howard suggests techniques such as seeding discussion, removing the fear factor by providing examples of how to participate, creating regular events, using a system to represent membership contribution levels.

Influence: giving members a clear sense that they have a voice and actually have control over how that voice is heard within the community. This area is concerned with actively asking participants why they are interested in joining, and using profiles to give identity to your community base. Also includes tips on grouping like-minded contributors together – eg novices with novices, so that people can learn from each other.

Belonging: cultivating a sense of community, and emotional attachment. My inner buddhist is a little alarmed at aspiring to create this, (detach! detach!)  however it is important to note the emotional pay offs in social media. When someone 🙂 at me on twitter with a thanks for #followfriday, I know that I feel a little more connected to the twittersphere. Howard recommends techniques such as establishing protocols and routines, (eg, like twitter’s #followfriday) and maintaining consistent visual identity with colours, symbols etc. A story of origin can be very powerful (ahem, bible!) in cohering a community, but it could be as simple as a congenial fireside chat paragraph on the about page.

Significance: the broader picture, and success of the whole community. Howard explores the paradox of exclusivity and social capital (oh hai Bordieu!), in a chapter that discusses PR, marketing, and policy making. It’s a way of talking about strategic direction as it relates to how people relate to their community. For “community designers” this aspect returns user approaches to the broader general strategic direction of creating the community in the first place. After a semester of Knowledge Management earlier this year, I have renewed interest in strategic direction / organisational strategy / mission statements etc!  Detailed analysis of these documents will provide the best guidance for your community building and knowledge sharing strategies.

What do you think about the experience of being in an online community? Are there any that stand out as outstandingly good or shudderingly awful? I’m keen to hear your thoughts.

PS – please email g.fuller[at]unsw.edu.au or l.stokes[at]unsw.edu.au to turn on commenting rights if you are not yet a member of this blog.

Further reading:

Howard, Tharon W., (2010) Design to Thrive: Creating Social Networks and Online Communities that Last, Elsevier Company.

Brown, Daniel M (2006) Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning, New Riders.

Weinschenk, Susan , (2010) The Psychologist’s View of UX Design

Design look and feel – the two ways of life.

Posted by on November 25th, 2010 · Uncategorized

Two directions for the look and feel. Note : we’re not looking at content or layout – just look and feel ( colours, line weights, treatment ). We’re calling these `social` and `mono`.

ÉRIC ALLIEZ: MATISSE’S BECOMINGS

Posted by on November 23rd, 2010 · related topics

ÉRIC ALLIEZ: MATISSE’S BECOMINGS

WHEN

25 November 2010 5.30 pm

WHERE

Lowy Theatre Lowy Building Level 4 High Street, Kensington

WHO

Éric Alliez Professor of Contemporary French Philosophy

COST

Free & Open to the Public

The National Institute of Experimental Arts at the College of Fine Arts, in association with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences,presents a lecture by Éric Alliez, Professor of Contemporary French Philosophy, Kingston University, London.

Professor Alliez is renowned for his work on the relation between philosophy and the visual arts, with a particular emphasis on post-Deleuzian inflections of this relationship. His doctoral thesis, supervised by Deleuze, is published in English as Capital Times: Tales from the Conquest of Time (Minnesota 1996). He is the author of several books on philosophy, phenomenology and the thought of Deleuze and Guattari, the best known of which in English is The signature of the world or, What is Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy? (Continuum 2004).

Professor Alliez has co-authored books in French on the thought of Matisse and vitalism, and philosophical histories of modern painting, and is the author of numerous articles on contemporary

.

french philosophy, biophilosophy and biopolitics. He was a founding member of the editorial board of the journal Multitudes. He is one of the editors of the 13 volumes of the work of Gabriel Tarde. He is currently engaged in a research program on Art against the Image: Matisse vs Duchamp.

Professor Alliez will lecture on Matisse’s Becomings:The Dance between Painting and Architecture, in which it will be a matter of showing that it falls to Matisse to have been the first to understand that a becoming-life of art could only be realized by a veritable becoming- other of painting, the expansion of which will pass through an architectural becoming enabling it to affect architecture, carrying art off, beyond itself.

The demonstration will be put back into play on

the occasion of a confrontation between Matisse

and Theo van Doesburg, which will take us from

a dancing hall to a school: from the Aubette in

COFATALKS

Strasbourg to Le Cateau-Cambresis, where the

latest Matisse installed his Bees.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL ARTS COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS | THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES CNR OXFORD ST & GREENS RD PADDINGTON NSW 2021 AUSTRALIA

PHONE + 61 2 9385 0619 EMAIL r.kiang@unsw.edu.au WEB www.niea.unsw.edu.au

ÉRIC ALLIEZ: MATISSE’S BECOMINGS

Posted by on November 23rd, 2010 · related topics

ÉRIC ALLIEZ: MATISSE’S BECOMINGS

WHEN

25 November 2010 5.30 pm

WHERE

Lowy Theatre Lowy Building Level 4 High Street, Kensington

WHO

Éric Alliez Professor of Contemporary French Philosophy

COST

Free & Open to the Public

The National Institute of Experimental Arts at the College of Fine Arts, in association with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences,presents a lecture by Éric Alliez, Professor of Contemporary French Philosophy, Kingston University, London.

Professor Alliez is renowned for his work on the relation between philosophy and the visual arts, with a particular emphasis on post-Deleuzian inflections of this relationship. His doctoral thesis, supervised by Deleuze, is published in English as Capital Times: Tales from the Conquest of Time (Minnesota 1996). He is the author of several books on philosophy, phenomenology and the thought of Deleuze and Guattari, the best known of which in English is The signature of the world or, What is Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy? (Continuum 2004).

Professor Alliez has co-authored books in French on the thought of Matisse and vitalism, and philosophical histories of modern painting, and is the author of numerous articles on contemporary

.

french philosophy, biophilosophy and biopolitics. He was a founding member of the editorial board of the journal Multitudes. He is one of the editors of the 13 volumes of the work of Gabriel Tarde. He is currently engaged in a research program on Art against the Image: Matisse vs Duchamp.

Professor Alliez will lecture on Matisse’s Becomings:The Dance between Painting and Architecture, in which it will be a matter of showing that it falls to Matisse to have been the first to understand that a becoming-life of art could only be realized by a veritable becoming- other of painting, the expansion of which will pass through an architectural becoming enabling it to affect architecture, carrying art off, beyond itself.

The demonstration will be put back into play on

the occasion of a confrontation between Matisse

and Theo van Doesburg, which will take us from

a dancing hall to a school: from the Aubette in

COFATALKS

Strasbourg to Le Cateau-Cambresis, where the

latest Matisse installed his Bees.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL ARTS COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS | THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES CNR OXFORD ST & GREENS RD PADDINGTON NSW 2021 AUSTRALIA

PHONE + 61 2 9385 0619 EMAIL r.kiang@unsw.edu.au WEB www.niea.unsw.edu.au

Éric Alliez NIEA-FASS Lecture