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Over the last few months we have been working on two social websites: East Hampshire Council and the British Council. The East Hampshire Council site was developed in collaboration with Callender Creates, Design Studio based in Brighton. The sites are very different, below is a quick analysis of what each site does:
East Hampshire (EastHampshire.org)
East Hampshire is a social network / community site which features daily news updates and an extensive guide of what’s happening in the East Hampshire Area. The site has several social features like OpenID, integration with Upcoming.org, del.ico.us, Google Maps, Geo-coded images and RSS/Atom export. The aim is to let people be creative and pull their data from various sources and then import them when required.
The site is not only aimed at people living at East Hampshire council but also others who want to visit the attractions. The site is still in beta and will continuously develop over the next year. For more information checkout EastHampshire.org’s brochure:
British Council (OurSharedEurope.org)
Our Shared Europe is closely tied in with the book (Our Shared Europe) by Ehsan Masood. The aim is to create more understanding and awareness of the many contributions that Muslims have made in history and continue to make in present-day Europe.
The site is a semi-social site and our aim is to encourage the community to contribute using services like Scribd and share links with others using the website.
Overall we have really enjoyed working with the two council. We are thoroughly impressed how open to collaboration and suggestions the councils were. Guess we are increasingly seeing the launch of Council 2.0 in the UK.
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2 Comments
Hi Raj
Nice looking East Hants site - I’ve blogged about it on my site at http://www.seictchampion.org.uk. I have various people asking me about systems like this from time to time, so I’m interested in seeing where it goes next - too many of these ideas get an initial surge of enthusiasm and then languish as the content slowly dies. Maybe delicsioous and similar aggregators can be the solution?
Take care
Mark
Hey Mark, thanks for the comment. The aim of the site is to make it useful/engaging for the end audience. The site is still in beta and some interesting features will be unveiled shortly !
One thing I like about the site is that council is totally behind it and want to make a difference by harnessing the power of social media. Watch the space :o)