Published April 24, 2008 by

Social Media for the socially excluded

I had a meting today with an organisation – HeartsnSoul – who want to create a community web site to bring people with learning difficulties together with potential employers. They want to encourage use of personal blogs for their users and have a virtual meeting place (e.g. forum) where their users can ‘meet’ potential employers. I am looking into the issues and dependencies for providing all this through our existing CoP platform , but I think the interface design requirements may exceed the available budget and there may be implications for the future management and maintenance for what would have to be a separate bespoke development. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with designing, developing or using similar sites (i.e. with heavy emphasis on accessibility and usability), blending social media applications with a simple and intuitive front end design? Or perhaps anyone with experience in this whole area of bridging the digital divide for socially excluded groups. If so, I should be very grateful if you would contact me.
Stephen Dale

Stephen Dale

Stephen is Director and founder of Collabor8now Ltd, an organization focussed on developing collaborative environments (e.g. Communities of Practice) and the integration of knowledge management tools and processes to support business improvement. He is a certified knowledge manager with the Knowledge Management Institute (KMI) and the author of several published research papers on collaborative behaviours and information technology.

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2 Comments

  1. David Wilcox said:

    Hi Steve – might be worth popping something in to charitywebforum http://snurl.com/25qjr on accessibility and also exploring blog-based solutions with our friends at Networksonline. http://snurl.com/24jee
    It looks as if the great strength of HeartsnSoul is their arts content … so needs to be public and as you say using a range of social media. Glad to discuss further … how about a social media game workshop to do some collaborative design?

    April 25, 2008
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  2. Steve Dale said:

    Hi David,

    thanks for the suggestions – follow up.

    Steve

    April 27, 2008
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