First Week Analysis

types of online communities

types of facilties availalbe

open source software which supports these communities.

Type of online communities

.Internet access, access costs, computer and browser types, geographic and time zone issues all affect the type of community you’ll build.

our audience is the Italian communities in Australia.

unsure that would they be flexible to access internet ,but basically should be.

there wont be any access costs, and computer and browser type would be friendly to pc and mac, the most popular one so that people easily access.

geographic – exhibition in Melbourne and online source system, there might be a problem for the residence not in Melbourne and overseas (Italian).

time zone should be consider.

And this is a public system, but as there involve sensitive problem, and need to in case for illness support group, user registered needed. business support or not ?

Type of communities

• Collaborative workgroups
• Family groups
• Social spaces
• Role playing
• Illness support groups
• Spaces for primarily face-to-face groups
• Ethnic groups
• Professional groups
• Geographically related groups
• Software support
• Intellectual discussion groups
• Special interest groups
• Creative groups sharing techniques and work

http://www.fullcirc.com/community/communitytypes.htm

Project Document

Title Page

Contents

Overview

Client/Audience

work flow/ time sheet

Design Process

sketches, brainstorming, thumnnails

concept development

site map(information architecture )

design valuation – spend one week to think what can i do;

conceptualization stuff

market research- Direct competitors and target audience and indirect competitors

same value research / same brand value

project brie/ return brief/ quote