OUGD406 - Communication is a Virus : Blog and Twitter

Over the past few days we have put together a blog and a twitter page. For the blog we have used Word Press as we wanted to make it look more professional. This was new for all of us as we had not used it before. I think we will start out with quite a basic blog but over the next two weeks we will upgrade it significantly therefore showing our progression throughout the project.

For now we have kept the header in the preset font from wordpress but we will update this when a logo is decided and designed.

We have begun to post each day and hope to have 50 posts by next friday. This project could be very interesting as we could decide to keep it as a live brief which we continue to add to over our time at LCA. The colour scheme is not set in stone at the moment in time but this can be updated at any time. I think the most important thing is to get the content onto the blog in order for it to look professional and actually function as a resource. I have raised the question of whether we should all individually post 5 times per day to increase the resource but the group did not think it was necessary. I do feel that the blog will be quite empty if we only post once per day but if we were to keep the project live this would not be a problem. This would also mean that our workload will increase. One of the limitations of this brief is that it is quite easy to produce a blog and the provide the content. I am concerned that we will reach the end of the brief and have less work than maybe we should do. As was proven in the 3 week individual brief we can achieve a lot in 3 weeks, so should be evident in a group brief. I feel that our design ideas and sheets are going well but that we are moving maybe too slowly when it comes to designing the product. As we have to attempt to make our blog viral we will need to be sending out mailers and posters to inform people about the blog and how it can help students. This could also serve well with the upcoming interviews for university places.

I think twitter is the best way to make our blog go viral as it is used by so many people. Our aim is to tweet several times a day and follow as many people as possible. This would ensure that people will actually be viewing the blog and finding it useful. We would also like the twitter page to be a form of feedback on the blog and what they find useful, what we need to improve or add to and also any praise they will to send. 

Our twitter page, at the moment is quite basic but it will be updated when a logo is decided and also when we have designed the blog. It is very important that we keep both the blog and the twitter looking the same as people need to be able to automatically know what the page is for.