Project Report

I. Project title: Occupy Boulder Examined

 URL: http://occupyboulder.coloradodjlabs.org/

II. Members:

    Kristin Noguera (grad) - kristin.noguera@colorado.edu

    Chelsea Long (senior) - chelsea.long@colorado.edu

    Alex Patterson (senior) - alexander.j.patterson@colorado.edu

    Michael Kerner (senior) - michael.kerner@colorado.edu

III. Division of Labor:

    Kristin Noguera - wrote content, built map, design input

    Chelsea Long - wrote content, took photos for homepage, edited photos

    Alex Patterson - designed, built and maintained the website

    Michael Kerner - shot and edited video, interviewed sources

IV. Resources:

    Google Maps

    Occupy official websites

    Occupy social media sites - Facebook, Twitter

    Vancouver Courier

    New York Times

    http://coupmedia.org/occupywallstreet/occupy-wall-street-official-demands-2009

    Adbusters Media Foundation   

    Anonymous activist group website

    Infowars.com   

    YouTube

    opensecrets.org

    HTML, XHTML and CSS by Elizabeth Castro

    Flickr

    Google blogs/Blogspot

V. Strengths of project:

    Clean, simple web design

    Interesting sources for video interviews

    Good content material

    International relevance - movement growing

VI. Weaknesses of project:

    Local movement not very large, infrequent events

VII. Lessons Learned:

    Group worked well together - good balance of knowledge areas from each person

    Website design takes a lot longer than it seems

    Occupy Boulder people aren’t the most timely of people. Nearly every event was delayed from the prospective start time.

    It’s nice to have a balance of broadcast and news/ed majors in your group!