These notes came from Joshua Porter’s book Designing for the Social Web.  This is an excellent book and I highly recommend it for people designing software to be used by anyone, not just web software.  These notes will probably have a bias towards Kablink but I think I summarize all the major points of the book.

In essence Joshua advocates finding the objects you collaborate around and the functions that support that collaboration.  Everything else will fall into place if you focus on those two important concepts.  (more…)

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Ever wonder why some open source projects are insanely popular and others struggle to get mind-share?  I do, all the time, especially since the “insanely popular” part is what I’m striving for as a Community Manager at Novell.  I recently read a great book entitled “Designing for the Social Web” by Joshua Porter.  In his book Joshua describes the life-cycle of a user interacting with a website and points out the various hurdles that must be overcome in order to create an active user.  This got me to thinking (dangerous) about the similarities shared between the life-cycle Joshua outlined and what open source projects go through.  I thought I’d write down my thoughts on this topic before I forgot them (more…)

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