January 30th, 2008
Intro to Social Design Podcast
by Joshua Porter | 
6 Comments | shortlink: http://bokardo.com/p/735
For those of you who listen to podcasts and are interested in social design, here’s an option: Alex Barnett and Ted Haeger (the Bungee Connect folks) recently interviewed me about my take on social design. Long-time Bokardoans might remember me doing a series of podcasts a couple years ago with Alex, who was at Microsoft at the time. I’m happy to say that he’s now even more into podcasting. He always was a great host…ready at a moment’s notice with an insightful question.
Here’s the show post.
Here’s the RSS Feed (love the name of it) The Bungee Line.
Here’s the mp3: Social Design Interview (47min, 22MB)
The interview was part of a series that Ted and Alex are doing for Bungee Labs. They’re stretching out the role of the new community manager, who serves to not only help out with the community but also helps to lead the discussion in and around it. I think this will become a common model going forward.
Anyway, I’m honored to be part of their series, which includes the likes of Jeff Barr of Amazon and Chris Messina of Citizen Agency.
In the podcast we talk about The Del.icio.us Lesson and other topics of social design. The level of depth was meant for everyone, even folks who have never heard of social design before.
If you listen and have any feedback/questions/concerns, I would love to hear it. Either leave a comment or shoot me an email.
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1. Jeremy Olson 10:06am, Sat 2nd, 2008
Great interview, Joshua! Looking forward to the book.
2. Daniel 2:23pm, Sun 3rd, 2008
Great interview. I really like your insight about how the social features of a website should be implemented AFTER you have taken care of the user’s needs/solved their pain.
I remember an interview you did a while back in which you discussed a quote (I believe by Mark Twain) about why military personnel serve their country. How they do it because it makes THEM feel good while outsiders typically attribute their actions based primarily on the soldier’s desire to honor their country.
That’s a really really great quote and I thank you for really driving this point home. I’ve definitely tried to take that advice to heart when designing websites and figuring out which features to implement next.
By the way, you may have since figured this out, but I believe the Zune’s new marketing slogan is “You Make It You.” I started smiling as I thought of that slogan while I was listening to this interview because it really proved what you were discussing is exactly right. User’s use the web to solve their problems. And any social gratification is usually just a side-effect.
3. Evan Meagher 5:15am, Mon 4th, 2008
Just got around to listening to the cast. It’s nice to now have a voice to attribute to all your posts.
I’m very much looking forward to your book. Hopefully I can find money and to get and read a copy! I’ve been primarily into design so far, and I’m interested in learning the ropes of development. Your books sounds like it should be very able to augment my learning.
4. Edward Nickerson 9:32am, Wed 27th, 2008
Hi Joshua – thanks for this I am quite new to these concepts myself but I have just recently read a book by a guy called Jakob Nielsen, who I am sure you must have heard of, and it has changed the way I look at web sites. In fact I have changed the web design of my own site to concentrate on the user and content rather than the marketing hype that seems so prevalent these days.
Looking forward to your book
5. Jon Marks 3:23pm, Wed 26th, 2008
Thanks a lot for creating the mp3 file! I just finished downloading it (my network is slow today) and I look forward to listening to it tomorrow.
Keep em coming
6. trafik iÅŸaretleri 8:14am, Tue 17th, 2009
I cannot understand why I should use del.icio.us or something similar. I have my Firefox bookmarks – that’s enough for me