Renewed Version of presentation content (Week 7 Progress)

Individual Part

Communication platforms

Communication Internally as a team

Social media is a very powerful source of communication for our team, Shades of Black. We use Wiki, Facebook and Dropbox to interact with each other all the time and that works for us because everyone has access to the internet most of the time and thus that helps us to stay connected and updated with the everyone’s progress. Almost everyday, we go on Facebook to discuss about the project, what needs to be done and by when it needs to be done.

As for the Wiki, the discussions and information are written in a more academic and formal way because the Wiki page is viewed not only among the members but public in general so the Wiki has information that is understandable and more has more details. The Wiki and Facebook works great as a communication tool in written form, however, we need a folder that enables us to share our drawings, files and other important documents and we are using Dropbox for that. The group has a group Dropbox which allows members to share important files and documents. The benefit of Dropbox and the purpose of shared document it is a way of us helping each other out, checking and correcting each other’s file that can be very helpful.



External Communication

Shades of Black tries to reach out to a broader community through Wiki and Youtube. Wiki is a great way to make our project known to others as it contains information of the project in an understandable and readable form. At the mean time, it is not editable by the public because the project is still in process, however we will make it editable and accessible in the future. Youtube is another source that is able to market our project as people in general watches Youtube and we put up our progress, GoPro videos and other related videos on our Youtube site so that people who are interested can look up and comment on the videos which in a way providing feedback to us.

We have actually considered creating a Facebook page and a website but after deep consideration we decided not to go forward with them because not all targeted audiences uses Facebook and if we do set up a Facebook page it would be too confusing as we would still have to link it back to Wiki which deceives the purpose of having a Facebook page. The website plan failed also because we already have a Wiki, so there is just no reason to create a website when people can just go on our Wiki which serves and functions like a website.