Flickr recently made a loads of interesting geo information available, by plotting the outside edge of geotagged photos they’ve managed to roughly show where a ‘place’ is according to people that have taken photos in that area.
Here’s Digbeth:
Interestingly it looks like our new home on Fazeley Street, doesn’t quite qualitfy as ‘Digbeth’ yet. If you’ve got some photos of Digbeth on Flickr, why not spend a few minutes adding them to the map so we can represent where we the true shape of Digbeth.
For the last couple of weeks we have been using every spare bit of time to put together our new web site. The site is built on the delight that is Wordpress and includes the odd sprinkle of jquery to add a few interactive touches. The new site was sparked from a desire to more effectively display our portfolio of work, including recent projects Maybird Shopping Park, CABE and Willow Brook Centre.
We have also secured a move to new studio space. The new space is still in Digbeth at Fazeley Studios, it is quite a lot larger allowing for comfortable growth as well as giving us room to swing a cat or two. We will be fully moved in and up and running on the 1st December.
We are also pleased to announce that we have been shortlisted for a ‘creative city award’… outstanding business development. We will find out the results at the awards ceremony on the 29th November.
heather was the 10th person, currently 2.9 billion photos,
cal fixed it so they could scale
3 billion page views a month, 5,000 uploads a minute
experience the world from a different perspective, london bombings was busiest day ever, birth and death dynamic
community manager?
being a pinata people beat you with sticks but you still have to give them candy
tone of voice for UI
soft pressing tone of voice, human, clear, witty funny
‘our community of full of helpful clever people who know more about flickr than we do!’
bubble up the good
step in when things are going weird
community expectations, community guidelines are good when they got larger
not just tell people what they can’t do
giving your members to let your members take the action themselves
flags and blocks, report abuse is priority, managed 24/7
communication is key
owning it, Sometimes we suck on flickr blog, sometimes it’s not going to be all good.
don’t wait, if you need to make a significant change to the relationship, allow 6-8 weeksÂ
don’t abuse what people are giving you
make lemonade, turn a negative around, turned the downtime into a colouring competition, we turned a horrible thing into something that worked really well
change is hard, a lot of the users were dlsr geeks who didn’t want to flickr to turn into youtube. The first 48 hours are reaction, the first two weeks are feedback about what’s going on.
embrace the chaos
unexpected activity on flickr
outside community coming into flickr, flickr as fighting crime
automatic photobooth uploading caught robber
worst case scenarios, mythical porn island where people were dropping porn
q & a
smaller team wearing many hats, there’s no school for community management, unflappable character, good judgement, don’t take things personally, take the time to make a right decision, sense of humour.
has the concept of privacy has changed?
flickr is a series of communities, different experience for different communities, what do people expect when people add a contact. how many relationships can a person have?
social network fatigue, lifecycle of an account, change the way they upload photos over time.
24 hours of flickr, 21,000 people in the group, 1/3 of all members on the group added photos.
flickr 888, 7,000 photos
do I need to be worried about my photos on flickr? it’s a question on how people use content on the internet, not just to flickr.
creativecommons, how many people use it? does it work? There will always be people who take photos, flickr has the largest the largest collection of creative commons, over 10 million CC licensed photos.
is there scope of highlighting flickr users on flickr.com/explore, we could do more to highlight groups. there are groups all around the world
we haven’t done any traditional marketing, it’s all done though word of mouth, flash widget
tone of voice, how you maintain that though multilingual? we think the community guidelines are clear, but some people don’t get it. we used some translation people to translate the hard stuff.
the team were active on the site and the forums, we don’t want it to come across as the robot voice.
do you find it hard when people complain about all the change, even if it’s for the good. feedback is good, it’s only upsetting when it’s personal. the forum is just a small amount compared to the rest of the users.
do you know how many people left over the old skool logins? a couple of people left, what people say vs what they do it’s very different.
what’s next? we don’t normally talk about stuff that’s coming up next, perhaps a basket of kittens for every member
is flickr paying it’s way? flickr is doing really at the moment
What is 4ip? investment fund for public sector digital media. support web, games, etc improve the lives of people
what are we looking for?
really big ideas, 20 big ideas, big partners, delivery stuff though digital media
support small risky ideas,
criteria
inspiring change, original, stir things up
scratch important itch, what’s the problem?
it isn’t about telly- collaboration and participation
thrive after 4ip
particular interest
helping people discover stuff that’s already out there
digital democracy, keep an eye on money and power
amplifying voices, wizdom of crowds, connect people
tools, tools to make trouble, (e.g. uk blog search)
networks
participation
people
open
less is more
conversation
4ip.org.uk
does your idea stir things up?
disruptive ideas, build stuff that allows people to do stuff much easier
what can you do when networks talk to each other? what are the needs? what problems can be solved?
massively local, global to local. have no poverty of ambition, reflecting community
we’re open to bonkers ideas, i’m for maing horrible mistakes
participation and collaboration is catalytic, networks, what it makes in terms of making and sharing media for everybody
doing stuff that was previous impossible, 4ip making the next wikipedia
finding commercial in public sector, commercially is more sustainable
patientoption.co.uk, trip advisor for hospitals, public based performance data back to the NHS, b2b product of of and public site
mozilla is about open source, but make a successful business
we are open to innovation in intellectual property
q & a
how do you make money? from digital media projects
if were making stuff, it has to get out as broadly as possible, if you make stuff and you don’t allow it to be shared and copied for free your probably losing out
give it away has been one of the key areas digital media platform has grown
printers are free, ink is expensive
chris anderson blog wired
the best forms of collaborative media won’t be about genres
4ip helping web design companies make games
researched based R & D for digital media for the creative industries, instead of life sciences
free is the just the first bit, you do give things away but you can make money because of that
4ip couldn’t be more different from making great telly, stepping right into the water of participatory media
they won’t have an audience they will be people using it
the message about 4ip is about making the tech better
the creative economy will be the economy
it’s not been proven that large companies will dominate this space, having smaller companies is better
We are extremely pleased to announce our involvement in a new project. Walkit.com is a fantastic concept and a web site that already has a huge following. We will be working closely with the walkit.com team to develop their current web site with a new style and the addition of many exciting new features.
We are due for beta launch by the end of November.
We are looking for a web developer to join our team on a full time or freelance basis.
Skills required include: xhtml, css, php, js, experience in developing with drupal and wordpress.
Please send CV and examples of work to team@substrakt.co.uk
Claire Hartley is the latest addition to the Substrakt team. She recently graduated from Northampton Uni and is a fab graphic designer and illustrator!
