As we mentioned in the workshops, from time to time we’ll be giving everyone some general feedback about the interaction blog posts. If you don't have time to read all this jibber-jabber and just want to skim, the super-important stuff is in bold.
Overall, everyone got the idea that they’re meant to pick a social/mobile app or service and write about it. However, there were three patterns that we saw in a few of the blog posts that we’d like to talk about.
- The first issue we found was that some people chose to write about an app/service that has a social element, but their post wasn’t about the social features of the app. Since this is a course about social and mobile software, you should write about the social and mobile aspects of the app or service you've chosen. If you’re going to write about Steam (which a few people did, and it’s a great choice), write about the aspects of Steam that are relevant to this course — the social, mobile, or CSCW elements. For example,