Article Idea:
Design and usability of social networking sites: How it's being done to address the needs of youth
suggested by Christine Abela on 2007/03/02
This is the second part of a two-part article that introduces the topic of design and usability of social networking sites for youth audience members aged 11-17. The first part of the article introduced what the needs are of this audience in this online environment and made the case for why they are necessary. The second part will demonstrate how certain companies are addressing those needs and show what they have recently implemented in partnership with the Virtual Global Taskforce. The article will be supplemented with comments from individuals in the industry about recent directions as well as future aspirations in the development and design of social networking sites as they pertain to youth.
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Daniel F. Bassill
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Posted 2007/05/05 @ 09:38AM with
It would be great to see designeds used as blueprints for connecting business volunteers with youth in structured, age appropriate activities that connect youth with mentors, tutors, learning and vocational opportunities and result in more young people becoming workers in industries that supprot this process. In the Tutor/Mentor Institute section of http://www.tutormentorconnection.org you can see a use of maps and charts to illustrate this concept. I’d like to be working with deisgners in colleges and industry to flesh out these ideas and implement them in cities throughout the world.