Our Project Brief!

Team Name: Team Hamburger

The Organisation: YouthworX

Mission/ Vision: Through connecting, empowering and promoting, YouthworX will collaboratively strengthen and support the North Shore Youth Sector.

Identified Goal (of yMedia): Creating an easier way for these groups to converse, discuss and collaborate.

Current barriers: The lack of necessary skill to create a digital space in which these community groups to converse and discuss.

Client/ Target Audience: Community organisations that specifically work with North Shore youth.

Possible/ Discussed Digital Solutions: A networking space where these organisations can collaborate, network, engage and discuss anything. Blogging could be used or Facebook social networking group could be used to connect these organisations. Also, a type of emailing system to facilitate face-to-face conversations and meetings would be very beneficial for the organisation.

Evaluation of Solutions: Facebook doesn’t tap into the identifiable need of YouthworX. This type of communication is also rather inaccessible for some groups that don’t have a profile on Facebook. The networking space is probably the best solution, with a possible blogging/emailing aspect to it.

Proposed Solution: A space on the web containing a forum where community groups can discuss their needs. An area for contact information of YouthworX and other organisations would be a great idea. Fortnightly email update to all members about hot topics on the forum.

Focus of Solution: The focus is on YouthworX’s main goal of making an arena of collaboration. This has been slightly sidelined in past years.

Design Approach:
Required elements: Tabs; webcasts; easy to use forums; space for contact information; and a message board.

Look and Feel: Easy to use tabs and simple graphics. YouthworX colours (red, orange, black) present but not overpowering. Clean lines, logical layout and movement through the website sectors.

Scope of Work: The organisation is going to need to gather all contact information that they have. And all other information and data that they want to be on the website. The ‘students’ will need to provide YouthworX with a site that fulfils their needs of collaboration. Also, a structure of sustainability would have to be constructed for future use by the organisation.

Outside Scope: At this stage it will be a basic website that can be added onto by the organisation at a later date. Also, the idea of creating a means of resource sharing would have to be looked at by YouthworX at a later date.

Technology to be used: all work will mainly be done on the computer. Design software and all that shebang will be used in the process. :D

Proposed Structure: The main structure that will be used will revolve around the idea of a communication tool for the involved community organisations. Once the members enter into the website they will be greeted with tabs linking them to forums that focus on various areas of youth organisations. They can then follow these to the forum and read up on what people are posting and add their two cents as well. The fronts page of the website will also contain a message board where people can write up events that are happening in their sector, inviting other organisations to help or participate. There will also be an integrated help system. This will be videos (web casts) and written help items telling the users how to get the most out of the website.