You may remember my post just before christmas where I spoke about developing ideas for The Cultural Bible.

I thought, since we are now about to start semester 2 , all my other modules are finished it was time for me to address each of the issues raised.

So below you will find the points my peers highlighted in connection with my project and my response.

A website about Birmingham, for the students of Birmingham, reviewing and suggesting various places of interest.

-       Application of research and editorial skills

  1. Survey BCU, Aston and Brum University students for interests – brilliant idea! will be great for research seen as they are our target audience.
  2. Research/ Co-operation with Town Hall and NUS for local student based events – also another great idea. there is so much to think about in this project it has been easy to over look some – so this is another fab idea for further research.
  3. Advertising on website, student deals etc. – this is a good idea, although when discussed will require a lot of maintenance on our behalf – both in terms of organising with sponsors to get the deals and keeping the webpage up to date. This is hopefully something we aim to do in the future.

-       Management of the process

  1. Time Keeping – both Emma and I have great organisation skills so time management and setting and meeting deadlines should not be a major issue.
  2. Setting and Meeting Deadlines
  3. Dealing with outside sources – Dealing with outside sources is a complicated issue within our project. As we have decided to take on the mystery shopper approach we will have to make little contact with places we discuss. However we will still need to keep a professional tone so as not to get into any trouble.

-       Understanding with professional context

  1. If similar sites exist, what areas are they not addressing? – Similar sites exist, however they are purely review sites or professional sites that almost advertise the places. We aim to build something that meets these two areas in the middle.
  2. How will you create awareness of the site? -We aim to create awareness of our site by using other social media tools such as twitter, facebook, flickr etc as well as word of mouth and print campaigns.
  3. Will you have to pay people to create content for the site? - We will not have to pay people to create content for the site as that is the job of Emma and I. We are looking to invite guest journalists to post about places they have visited but not as a paid job.

-       Flair and creativity

  1. If it’s for students will to be places of interests generally or best areas to go out, best or cheapest places to shop? – we aim to include all of these categories, as the website will separated into sections that students can directly find things they are most interested in.
  2. Will the site feature images and information? Or maybe video as well?  - the site will definitely feature image as well as information. After all a picture paints 1000 words. All of our photographs will be original and we do hope that on the occasion Emma and I visit a place together we can make a video!
  3. Maybe document it in the style of a countdown? Create a survey for comments.  - I am not entirely sure what is meant by a countdown. any ? However we will definitely have space for our readers to leave comments and even posts of their own!

 

Hopefully that answers some of the intial issues and attitudes about The Cultural Bible.

 

On another note, we now have a logo.. so  be prepared to see it EVERYWHERE.

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