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Make Websites About Your Users

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

An interesting conversation yesterday revolved around an organisation which is looking to rebrand and reposition itself in the market - a key artefact of this is a proposed new website. Interestingly enough they handed me a brief which included an inelegant mockup which someone had done earlier and a predetermined organisational heirarchy completed by the same source.

What’s wrong with that picture? I expect the warning light moves to orange when you see the about page has moved to a premiere position while functionality sits on a lower level to be accessed after various clicks-throughs (I’m guessing a drop down menu on a home page which supplies 4 overall links to the user). When asked about the users of the site the manager said the main users of the site were the administration staff of their organisation, and when accessibility was mentioned the reply was similarly ill-informed.

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Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky (cover)

Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations has been on my bookshelf for the last few months literally screaming to be read. In fact, I'm wondering how I got so sidetracked to have reached the end of the year without having consumed it. The message of the book is an area of my own fascination, the effects that our new technologies have on the way we relate to each other, and how we're now empowered in ways that were historically unheard of (or not even conceived of) not too long ago.

I'm a small town boy who grew up in the seventies, graduating high school in 1979. The world was slower - how did we survive without Wikipedia? Without MSN or Facebook? Nowdays we have flashmobbing and blogging and constant connection.