SA UX Forum on Facebook

[jh-01]

Hola -

If you've not yet added yourself to the facebook group please go ahead
and add yourself (http://www.facebook.com/groups/2750787123/).

For the past two months something of a swarm has been emerging around
the Facebook group and there are some posts there that aren't making
it to here on the google group.

It was kinda my fear that by starting the Facebook group (in addition
to the Google Group) that we'd end up fragmenting a bit or duplicating
conversations... I think this is starting to happen.

Any thoughts on how we could or should approach this? Keep both going?
Close one down? Create something else that's better and shut both the
FB and Google groups down...?

I'm all ears (metaphorically speaking).

Jason

[AJK]

The Groups is not really enticing people to post and take part. Too many steps and loading times. A lot of people just read the comments, but don't actively take part. Facebook is more condusive for interaction, but I am not a big fan of using it for. I personally would prefer a website dedicated to UX in SA with Twitter and Facebook integration. We create our own hashtag and let the website be a collection of resources and a feed stream from Twitter and Facebook. People can then interact through their preferred means. I don't think a normal forum would work. That is my 2c.

 

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[AJK]

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[Matt Jones (UserVox)]

This will be the challenge for any community going forward. It will be interesting to see who will be first to create an API that can share Google content to Facebook, or vice-versa. It happened with Twitter... and Linked In... Maybe the day will come where communities have so much choice that it becomes personal - you create whatever you want in one app, and everyone will see it in the app of their choice. Sort of diminishes the business models of most social facilitators. Unless there is only Facebook. **Shudder**.