“It’s fascinating to consider that events based industries such as live music have succeeded in growing their overall pie, whilst so much of the digital media debate is about cannibalisation.” – Publishing Rights Society (PRS), UK[1] Live events are an important social, cultural and economic component of many of our lives. They are both a […]
The EventHive Interface: Conceptual Wireframes
As discussed by Jack in a recent post, the highly thematic nature of EventHive leaves much to play with when designing a basic Graphical User Interface, particularly given the name’s strong connotations with hexagonal-patterned hives, large swathes of activity and a sleek and shiny feel. A number of sketches were therefore made and discussed by […]
Rolling Out EventHive
Rolling Out EventHive Given the highly successful nature of many modern start-ups in an age of easily (and often freely) distributed content – you only need to perform a quick search on Twitter to discover the latest multi-million app in the making – we believe EventHive to be an initiative of vast potential to revolutionise […]
Legal Issues for Social Networking Media (EventHive)
1. Disclosure of Confidential Information Confidential information such as trade secrets might be disclosed by employees or third parties with knowledge on social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter. Widespread disclosure of trade secrets could result the loss of intellectual property rights in the confidential materials [1]. It is relevant to EventHive, users can purchase […]
Business Proposal
For the past few years, new social networks have emerged on the Internet. One particular characteristic of these online social networks is that they are based on a particular area. For instance, there is Instagram, a social network that was initially created for photo sharing, and there is also Vimeo, a video-sharing social network, which lets users […]
Use-Case Diagram #1 – Overall
Overall: Attendee & Organiser Perspective This is the overall design of EventHive use-cases. There are two kinds of participants, attendees (Users) and organizers. All attendees can have a dashboard that will aggregate different sources about friends, events, organizers’ status etc. Attendees can manage friends, find events, recommend events to friends, buying products and tickets online. Users […]
Use-Case Diagram #2 – Event Organiser
Event Organiser This is a detailed diagram of EventHive from an organizer’s perspective. Organizers have more powerful tools than normal users to enhance the commercial applications. The first one is “Promotions Before Events”, which allows organizers to advertise or to notify all followers or selected clusters of users. Organizers can sell products or notify certain activities […]
Use-Case Diagram #3 – Potential Event Attendee
Potential Event Attendee This is an UML diagram from an attendee’s perspective. Attendees will be equipped with a dashboard to receive recommendations, observe ongoing events and friends’ status. They also can find organizers and receive notifications about events through this. Users can set their privacy settings for protecting privacy. Attendees’ profiles will be used for […]
EventHive Privacy Policy
In Eventhive, we provide users with a series of functions based on GPS in order to find local events or friends. However, this might become a concern for users and form as a barrier to new customers. Privacy is a concern for many of us and privacy to a person is “contextual” and “situated” depending […]
EventHive’s Point System
Introduction Fundamental to the EventHive experience is its event point system. EventHive reward users for attending events and using our platform. Users are encouraged and motivated to continue using our service and attending because there is a possibility of earning points that can be exchanged for rewards. The concept and motivation behind our point system will be explained by […]