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2. boxesandarrows

3. Designing for Nonprofits

4. User Experience Professionals Can Make a Difference in Society

5. Answering the Call to Service Design: An Interview with Phi-Hong Ha

6. Information Design = Complexity + Interdisciplinarity + Experiment

7. What You Should Know About Prototypes for User Testing

*** Designing for the social Web By Joshua Porter

The Social Media Bible: Tactics, Tools, and Strategies for Business Success By Lon Safko, David Brake

The Social Network Business Plan: 18 Strategies That Will Create Great Wealth

The user is always right: a practical guide to creating and using personas … By Steve Mulder, Ziv Yaar

So many interesting books!!!!

These days I’m focusing on volunteer works, trying to have a deeper understand about volunteer work.

The Volunteer Revolution: Unleashing the Power of Everybody

Volunteer: A Traveller’s Guide to Making a Difference Around the World

Volunteer Vacations: Short-Term Adventures That Will Benefit You and Others

Social Network:

Grown up digital: how the net generation is changing your world By Don Tapscott

The Young and the Digital: What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games … By S. Craig Watkins

Social network analysis: a handbook By John Scott

Small worlds: the dynamics of networks between order and randomness By Duncan J. Watts

Try to study on what is Social Network from the basic again, which makes me have a different view about Social Network, Funny:)

There are some Organizations which are related to Volunteer service and Social Network I researched on before.

No.1 The Art of Building a Successful Social Site by Lidija Davis

No.2 How to Motivate Volunteers by Thomas W. McKee

A short article talk about some tips to increase the motivation on volunteers.

No.3 Also find some interesting stuff on OPEN GYAY about Knowledge sharing.

No.4 Why Should I share?

No.5 SUS - A quick and dirty usability scale

No.6 Anatomy of a Successful Social Network

No.7 7 Tips for Successful Social Network Campaigns

Doing research on some featured organizations and their websites, wrote down their ideas, category them.

Start read a new article Design for Social Impact from IDEO. Very interesting.

Had a discussion with Niklas this afternoon, get some really nice feedback from him. Also discussed about how I should use service design to help me doing interaction design, talked about the different between working as a generalist interaction designer and a specialist interaction designer.

I really hope my work can be useful and helpful for Red Cross. I will try my best:)

Today I’m trying to finish preparing the questions and other thing for interviews.

At the same time trying to contact local Red Cross officers to check how they work here, how the volunteers join the work and activities in Umea.

Hope some good news will coming soon.

By the way, I really like the way how they organize the WWF UK’s website, clear and understandable.

Try to analyze and understand how red wire works and why 

I saw this album on itunes today, and bought it without thinking.

It said at least 6.56 Euro for each download of this album will be donated to Haiti.

I like the idea a lot, the songs are great as well.

Check more information on https://www.hopeforhaitinow.org/

When I show the news about Haiti earthquake, I tried to donate money online, I got the link on EV to WorldVision online donation page. I’ve heard about it before and like their concept very much, but never register.

When I try to donate, a information shows that I have to login/register first.  ( I though… but I only want to donate money for this time and I really want to do it as fast as possible since the people in Haiti are waiting for help. )  I try to register by fill in personal information, I didn’t get the membership right away.

After I become a member, I try to start the donation, when I finished filling all the information and press the donate button, information pop out and said it only work inside the U.S, I was really disappointed about that … they should as least tell me this at the very beginning but not the very end.

I visited UNICEF website and donated without register in 2-3 min.

For me I think how to make the donate and contribute process easy and user friendly is also very important both for an organization and the user especially for a new potential user. Sometimes less is more.

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