RADARREDUX class 9/ outline

Week 9. October 29

Goal: Design group have review page and beta front finished. Get first round of reviews up and ready to be posted online (they need to accept video and audio). Testing beta launch.

Complete final edits on reviews. Be prepared to post with photos/media.

Discussion: How will we work posting reviews? Weekly, daily? How to save and post media. Editorial meeting. What other pages are needed. Photo spread pages, RADARtv (mogulus), masthead (include contact info).

• Page layout - how to use.
• Format.
• Consider first lines.
• Headers.
• Everyone try to create a page.
• Create post.
• When to post.
• Editorial meeting.
• Move reviews further out there.
• Social responsibilities.
• Mission statement!!!!
• Accept rejection, reject acceptance
• Challenge orthodoxy
• Go further
• NOT about ego
• Discreet “non-ego” maneuvers
• Using our web publication as an experimental laboratory

Assignment: Complete assigned work and professionalize quality, get ready for beta launch. Work to weekly schedule/posting on Wednesdays.

RADARREDUX class 8/ outline

Week 8. October, 22

Goal: Design moves forward. Integrate class into working unit. Understand posting system. Blogs filling with content.

Teamwork fully in play. Working as an individual in a dynamic group environment.

Discussion: Understanding our system. How to save and post reviews for the site. Issues of working in larger groups. How we move forward working alone or in teams on multiple projects. Unification of existing staff system. Understanding editing process.

• Who is in charge of what?
• Communication system?
• When and where and how to post?
• FTP - are we using it?
  
• Google docs?
  
• Guidelines ?
• Press passes
• Writer samples.
• Run through blogs
  

• Editorial meeting

Assignment: Finish next stage of site design. Work as team producing and placing fresh content. Expand ideas and techniques of creating critical reviews.

RADARREDUX class 7/ outline

Week 7. October 15.

Goal: Design 1 implemented. Internal structure under construction, ready for publication. First round of editorial ready for placement. Working editcheck, FTP.

Overall design and structure of the site considered. What is it meant to do. Functionality. Interior page structure. How to post. Functionality. What direction does the class want it to go?

Discussion: How to implement? Content in place. Show how to use FTP. When to go live? Discuss current content and run editorial roundtable. Visitor: Input from Todd Harvey. Missionmedia cofounder and RADAREDUX.net art director.

• The face
• The look
• Readability
• Return factor
• Tagging
• Robust
• Community
• Analytic
• Design set in motion
• Review page
• Mogulus page
• Photo pages
• Masthead (names)
• Other?
  
• MISSION STATEMENT.

Assignment: Web designers: completeing design and graphic tweaks build next phase - internal pages and impliment. Editorial, complete assignments/post and begin to work on next one. Consider multi media/hypermedia.

RADARREDUX class 6/ outline

Week 6. October, 10

Goal: New beta site up. Posting issues. Content percolating. Editorial process working.

Connect blogs to central hub via new RADARREDUX.com. Best of blogs can be published on site or can be referenced and we can bounce to blog. What is an FTP? What is the editcheck?

Discussion: What is a hub and how will it work here. Is this the best way to organize social network styles of reporting? Other ideas and suggestions? How to prioritize? Start thinking about how to get deeper into the web and build an audience. Make sure all interconnected work.

• Discuss the new site.
• FTP
• editcheck
  
• Mark out what is needed.
  
• Consider design and retooling.
• How can we improve this system?
• Show work you completed
• Pitch next story.
• Twitter addition
  

Assignment: Create content in any medium. (We want variety.) Content can converge and overlap. Get out into the city. Keep reviews short, engaging and managable without sacrificing quality. Complete site redesign for full operation.