As mentioned sixgroups.com is sponsor of “VielMehr - Interdisziplinäre Fachtagungen” where one of the key topics is usability. Yesterday was the second day of the conference and we have met many interesting people who gave valuable feedback (some of them through the eyes of usability experts - thanks for the free analyses 
). So we always kept open a browser tab with our bugtracking tool.
We won’t be attending the last two days; there is too much work left for the next release. Of course, we are available via the VielMehr Livestream. Use the following hashtags to send messages into the Livestream via Twitter: #vielmehr08, #vielmehr2008, #vm08. Sixgroups.com’s Twitter hashtag is #sixgroups. You miss us more? Give us a call +49 40 69 65 93 51 6 
sixgroups.com will be sponsor of “VielMehr - Interdisziplinäre Fachtagungen”, an interdisciplinary conference covering “Mensch & Computer” (human and computer), “DeLFI” (e-learning), “Cognitive Design”, and “Usability Professionals”. VielMehr is organized by Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI), the German Chapter of the ACM (GACM), and the German Chapter of the Usability Professionals’ Association (GC-UPA). The conference is hosted by the University of Lübeck and the University of Applied Sciences Lübeck and will be held from September 7th to September 10th 2008.
The Livecommunity on vielmehr.org will aggregate everything happening on major web 2.0 media services (Twitter, flickr, Technorati, et. al.) related to the conference. Just join the VielMehr community and tag your photos, videos, and blogposts with “vielmehr08” and use the Twitter hashtag #vielmehr08 to make your media appear on the vielmehr.org website. We hope to provide a service that will add to the overall experience of the conference and foster communication and interaction among its visitors. The Livecommunity will also close the gap between people who can not attend and the conference event.
As sixgroups.com is conference sponsor you can meet us there demonstrating the Livecommunity on September 8th (Hörsaalzentrum, stand 9). See you in Lübeck!
Last week we rolled out a new release. The most obvious changing covers the height of the Livecommunity (have a look at the top of this blog). Several webmasters and users mentioned that the Livecommunity lacks of visibility. That was a positive surprise as we thought that the Livecommunity should be as discreet as possible. So we added some pixels . Enhancing the visibility of the Livecommunity is one of our main goals for the next weeks.
Another apparent add-on is the search field on the upper right side. The Livecommunity’s search feature includes 3 searches in 1:
- Site search,
- results of the community’s Livestream,
- results from all of the other six groups Livecommunities.
The search feature is optional. There is a special parameter in the Livecommunity’s JavaScript code to turn this feature on or off.
“Inside” the Livecommunity you’ll find the latest visitors and the partnersites of a Livecommunity. In this context we introduced an administration area where founders can manage their partnersites.
The response feature for Livestream shouts is not new, however we have optimized it’s visibility:
You also have extended privacy options. Just set if your Livestream postings (including external resources such as Tweets) should be indexed by search engines and if you want to be displayed in six groups widgets.
If you’d like something to say drop us an email or twitter us here. Your feedback is always highly appreciated!
Heute gab es einen Artikel über die six groups Livecommunity und den Livestream auf mashable.com.
Alana Taylor hat einen Nutzenaspekt der Livecommunity sehr gut wie folgt beschrieben:
With Livecommunity, Six Groups has solved the problem of producer-consumer interaction.
Den ganzen Beitrag gibt es hier: http://mashable.com/2008/06/02/sixgroups-livecommunity/
Heute haben Jan und Johannes von six groups im Studiengang Medienwirtschaft an der RFH Köln in einer Vorlesung bei Bernd Schmitz die Livecommunity präsentiert. Dank Skype und WebEx brauchten wir dafür nicht nach Köln zu reisen, sondern konnten die Präsentation und die Livedemo von Hamburg aus durchführen. Die Präsentation hat Bernd Schmitz via Ustream auf seinem Blog, auf dem natürlich eine Livecommunity eingebunden ist, zeitgleich gestreamt. Bis auf ein paar Minuten, die leider fehlen, kann man sich das Ganze hier anschauen: Gastvorlesung an der RFH Köln.
Und ich war einmal mehr über das Effizienzpotential moderner Technologie erstaunt…
