In the continued development & refinement of my social learning platform, I find myself facing a featuritis dilemma, as elegantly described by Kathy Sierra (illustration from her most wonderful blog):
How to resolve? Navigation? Simplification? A collection of simple sites each of focal purpose, linked with one another, v/s one “swiss army” site? Do I/we need all this?
Aggregators were apparently developed to help shift the web-phenomenon east of “happy user peak” to the left; yet my aggregation site seems to be beginning to slip down the slope past “guess I better look at the manual …”.
I’m wondering about using Drupal’s multisite function, with the multisite_login module, to create parallel sites for separable functions of my currently swiss-army-ish tool – with shared user db’s and single login. Community blog with aggregation of users’ distributed content on one site, community rated aggregated news on another, aggregation of selected Moodle course forum discussions on a 3rd.
Or perhaps I’m just getting too excited about the tools, & need to simplify overall. The tools are just too cool.
Table of contents for social learning site
- recipe for a social learning platform – #1
- recipe for a social learning platform – #2 – demo site
- recipe for a social learning platform – #3 – site & core modules
- recipe for a social learning platform – #4 – additional modules
- recipe for a social learning platform – #5 – modules hacks
- recipe for a social learning platform – #6 – social rated news
- recipe for a social learning platform – #7 – theme
- recipe for a social learning platform – #8 – login & access
- recipe for a social learning platform – #9 – views
- recipe for a social learning platform – #10 – no social rating?
- recipe for a social learning platform – #11 – files repository
- recipe for a social learning platform – #12 – distributed content
- recipe for a social learning platform – #14 – news feeds
- recipe for a social learning platform – #15 – surfacing algorithms
- recipe for a social learning platform – #16 – surfacing algorithms – node cloud
- recipe for a social learning platform – #17 – news feeds take two
- recipe for a social learning platform – #18 – making it social
- featuritis
- recipe for a social learning platform – navigation
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