Free chapter of Designing for the Social Web available

by Joshua Porter | August 27th, 2008 | shortlink: http://bokardo.com/p/797

You can now check out a free chapter of of my book Designing for the Social Web on the publisher’s web site:

Design for Sign-Up: How to Motivate People To Sign Up For Your Web App

There is also a one-page version for easier reading/printing, which you can find here: http://www.peachpit.com/articles/printerfriendly.aspx?p=1216150

Enjoy!

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Comments

1. Johan 2:32am, Thu 28th, 2008

This is too funny. I just borrowed out my copy to a client and then realized I needed this chapter to prepare for our upcoming workshop.
Thanks!!

2. Gareth – Design 2:55am, Thu 28th, 2008

Thanks for the chapter!

3. Zoe Rose 4:49am, Mon 8th, 2008

Hi,

I just finished reading ‘Designing for the Social Web’. It was absolutely terrific.

Given the importance you place on testimonials, I thought I’d give you one. I work for Cambridge University Press, the oldest publisher in the world. Like the rest of the industry, we’re doing all we can to make sure our business still exists in twenty years time. This basically means moving online.

Needless to say, good online publishing is a lot richer than throwing a lot of content on a website. The project I’m working on involves working out what ‘richer’ should mean – and at its heart, ‘richer’ means ‘social’. Your book covered everything that we’ve been struggling to work out by ourselves, with insight and strategic tactics to boot. It’s made a huge difference to how I view our whole architecture, and I’ll be encouraging all my colleagues to read it.

There were so many excellent ideas in this book. Personally, I can’t wait to implement them.

4. AlexeyGfi 1:56pm, Thu 11th, 2008

Joshua, thanks for work.
Really deep inside of people mind. I want it book. Will try to find book-shop to delivery in Ukraine.

Regards, Alexey

5. Bramy Garazowe 6:40am, Fri 12th, 2008

I`m really enjoyed the The Del.icio.us Lesson article. Lot idea and useful information as for newcomers as for experience bloggers.

6. lenen 9:35am, Wed 17th, 2008

IÂ´ve hade a great laugh about the Basecamp Buzz testimonials. But Iâ€™m afraid I have to agree on their point, even though it just looks like a copyrighter who has gone mad.

7. Russell miyaki 5:47pm, Mon 22nd, 2008

Hi Joshua, I enjoyed your session as one of the best at the web 2.0 expo in NY last week. Your points about what a community is and is not should be heard by many major corporations wanting to get into social. In my market, too many companies are just popping up a youtube page with innocuous content hoping that people are just going to pass them all over the place and join their group. Your book is very helpful as well. Thx!

8. Mike – Web Designer 2:46am, Wed 8th, 2008

Great chapter…off to Safari to see if I can find it. Do you typically make the rounds for the expos?

Cheers

9. Firebubble Design 5:32am, Thu 9th, 2008

Hi really liked that chapter, social media is something that has always interested me. I will put it on my to read list.

10. Albert Tai 5:35pm, Thu 12th, 2009

This is very funny
Thanks alot
-Albert Tai

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