IxDA has several 'platforms' that we provide for the community to gather upon: Discuss list via email, IxDA.org, the conference, and our hard-working IxDA Local Groups.
There are then platforms that are not sponsored by IxDA but obviously provide a great place for the community to share, such as your individual blogs, JohnnyHolland.org, Twitter, Flickr, Slideshow.com, vimeo.com or Facebook to name a few. The point is that there is so much good content and discussion out there, and there is no way we can ever capture all of this great knowledge in one place (ideally we could get you there, but that's for another entry), and each source is serving a potentially different audience, or tapping into a preference of engagement. With that in mind, we see an opportunity and want to try out an experiment. We currently have 9,985 people affiliated with the IxDA group on LinkedIn. While there is no way of knowing how many of those folks are actually subscribed to the Discuss list, we do think there is a substantial amount whose affiliation and involvement ends there. We are opening up the IxDA LinkedIn group to conversation in order to broaden the possibility of involvement, in both allowing the community to share knowledge with a broader audience, as well as move forward our goal to create more awareness of IxD. We are also in turn able to message the group directly on occasion and raise awareness of the org and the initiatives that are taking place beyond the platforms. Beneficial on many fronts. If you're not already affiliated, go here... http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=3754&trk=anet_ug_hm Let's see how it goes. If anyone is interested in helping monitor and lightly moderate, let me know. thanks, Janna DeVylder President, IxDA ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
