This update is a week late due to exams.
Last week we had two meetings, the first to plan for the presentation and assign the final blog posts which need to be made, and the second to practice the presentation in front of our critical friends and hear their feedback.
During the first meeting we first decided that due to the time constraints we should not have everyone speaking as it will affect the flow. It was decided that Jonny and Bharat should present.
Jonny Working, The camera man presumable not
Deep writing in big letters
The other three group members have been assigned to make posts on the blog in the areas where we feel we are lacking. It was also decided that we were going to have a practice session in front of the critical friends as thanks to their varied backgrounds this would helps us gauge the sort of reactions and the sort of questions we might get as a result of our pitch.
Larry taking notes in a notebook. Hasn’t he heard of Evernote?
Sumair sent an email to the ECS webmaster this week with a short questionnaire to try to get the view of a webmaster on taggr and etags. It is late in the project so we are unsure if we will get a response in time to use it but it seems worth a try.
The minutes of the meeting for 11/05/2011: –
1.Preparing for the presentation for the Dragon’s den. Jonny and Bharat has to prepare the slides.
2.Keeping the blogs updates about some more topics.To be done by Larry, Sumair and Deep.
3.Having a mock presentation any time after this week.
4.sending an invitation to the web scientist to come down to the demo presentation so that they can ask questions based on different aspects.
5.Communicate with the web master and wait for their feedback.
Unfortunately our supervisor couldn’t make it to the practice presentation but we performed it reasonably well and got some very good questions from the critical friends which influenced changes to the presentation and blog posts.
Thanks Critical Friends 🙂
The points and questions raised after seeing the presentation were:
- Can taggr run on its own if it doesn’t get the support of the big companies?
- Do users need to agree to the terms and conditions of all of the companies involved?
- Who owns the images uploaded?
- It might be worth adding OpenSocial to the networks list at the beginning
- Need to make the point about offering impartial advice on selecting a provider
- The video needs a short introduction first so people know what they are looking at, otherwise they spend half of the video figuring it out and miss some of the point
- Introduce the group at the beginning
- Maybe mention the future possibilites of tagging things other than images: text, videos, etc.
- Make sure we know at least some of the legal framework we need to operate within. The two main ones to look at are the data protection act, and the human rights act article 8 (the right to respect for private and family life)
- Make sure we inform users exactly how sponsors could use their images – could they be used in marketing?
The points made by the critical friends greatly improved the quality of the final presentation and I’d like to thank them on behalf of the group for taking time out of their revision schedule to help us out.