Ways in which to take this forward....

T-Shirts are a given, Carry on selling and promoting them. Get orders, and try and get the college interested on making them for particular events that are going on within the college.

The business itself that we have made, as its in the pipeline, we could adapt our business model to make it for us, as those who are leaving as a way of connecting together and staying n contact with each other after we graduate. We could then invite others from work places and industry and students who will be entering industry soon.

This could be a great way to connect our particular industry together and get whats going on in the industry and the companies known to all of the students, instead of companies posing thier news and having to search through all the companies separately it could be a great way to connect them all together.

Promoting the T-Shirts

Print credits have been awarded to us through the college so we are able to print a few. We also plan to put this up on the screens and we have sent it around on Facebook to start promoting it....Poster Design by Fahran

Scheduling.

Original done in shot gun by Marios, Have tried to make it a bit simpler. Names next to the task created, on a time line for how long it took.

Selling T-shirts

Below are pictures of us managing to sell the t-shirts.





Photos taken by Ben Keswick

Feedback from presentation......

The feedback we received today was both positive and negative. Our tutor liked the T-shirt side of things and thought that we perhaps should have concentrated a bit more on this than the designing of the website to the social network we wanted to start up. The T-shirts did seem to take a lot more time than needed, but trying to get the design ok with the branding team was a nightmare.


She said that we should have done some more research into the project as a group within college has been pitching to get this idea up and running already within the college. I did find out about this group, but it was too late to change our idea by that time, therefore combining the ideas would make more sense then giving up all the work we have done.

We are to carry on trying to sell the t-shirts to see if we can try and make more money than we have at this point in time.

Final Designs

Kofi - Final Design for website

Looks cool, just need to add work of Ravensbourne students.
T-shirt design - Big OK from Branding, We are getting this printed
Final design for logo for branding of our product.....

T-Shirts

On the side for the website and social network, in order to be able to fund this project, we have come up with the idea to sell t-shirts.
The design has come from Chris Cladow and they have been printed on a high quality black shirt. They came in different sizes of Small, Medium, Large and X-Large.

We have bought the t-shirts for £5.00 each and intend on selling them for £10.00 each.

So Far we have sold 12 t-shirts and have many more orders that we have taken in the last couple of days.
Originally we did a bulk buy of 20 to see how well they came out in quality and consistency and how popular they are with the students.

What the College has to Offer at the moment…..

What the College has to Offer at the moment…..

The college at current has the Intranet and Moodle.

Moodle allows for:

· Searching Library books and Source material found in the library.

· Student finder – Searching for students by level name and course giving contact details of the student.

· Web mail services. All students have a email address and a way of contacting everyone in college.

· Forums for chat about work, events or just selling equipment.

· Work placement opportunities and job pages, which are updated regularly

· Career and CV guidance

· Lecture notes and materials

· Chat ability with people who are online.

· This year, also has been set up a page to link between the different levels of the course to try and get more collaboration.

Mahara

· Mahara is provided freely as open source software.

· Open source means you can copy, use and modify Mahara provided you apply to the terms and conditions.

Include the source code when distributing Mahara to others;

Not modify or remove the original license and copyrights

Apply this same license to any derivative work.

· The college already has this installed and set up ready to go

· It can be used any time from now, and would be free to set up as its already in place.

· Each student will get 5MB of disc space to use

· Everyone can create Blogs

Create blog posts using a WYSIWYG editor

Attach files to posts

Embed images into postings

Configure whether or not Comments may be received on their blog

Create draft postings for later publishing

· Mahara provides a social networking facility where users can create and maintain a list of Friends within the system.

· Mahara shows Internal portfolios within the college

Opposition in college, trying to set up together at the same time…..

Student web services

They want to provide a month on month Basis – We will offer it for free with the hope of advertising for our money.

They want to provide a “after university” support section for graduated students: as do we, allowing people who have graduated to still be associated with the college. You can use the Enterprise and Innovation centre up to two years after you graduate, why not this, which is online…

They Plan to have different templates to which the customer can choose to personalize.

Progress of what i have done over the past few weeks.

Mahara

Mahara is a blogging platform that the college has already got installed and set up. The Mahara engine is already in place and there is function ability already in place. All that is needed is for portfolios to be uploaded and run it on the platform. Seen as it’s already there, it would cost less money to set up this function within the college.

Mahara is provided freely as Open Source software

In brief, open source means that you are allowed to copy, use and modify Mahara

provided you agree to:

1. Include the source code when distributing Mahara to others;

2. Not modify or remove the original license and copyrights

3. Apply this same license to any derivative work.

an ePortfolio has a much broader scope as an online collection of reflections and digital Artefacts (such as documents, images, blogs, resumés, multimedia, hyperlinks and contact information). Learners and staff can use an ePortfolio to demonstrate their learning, skills and development and record their achievements over time to a selected audience.

5 MB of disk space

Blogs


A comprehensive blogging tool is provided in Mahara, where blogs and blog postings are considered Artefacts and may be added to a View. 
 
The blogging tool allows users to: 


4. Create blog posts using a WYSIWYG editor

5. Attach files to posts

6. Embed images into postings

7. Configure whether or not Comments may be received on their blog

Create draft postings for later publishing

Social Networking


Mahara provides a social networking facility where users can create and maintain a list of Friends within the system. ePortfolio owners choose whether other users can add them to their Friends list automatically or by request and approval. 
An ePortfolio owner's Friends lists shows those Views to which they have been assigned access.

At present a social networking idea is in the pipeline being tested already.

Mahara shows Internal portfolios within the college but not outside the college.

Meeting With Lizzie Jackson

I arranged a meeting with Lizzie Jackson today to talk about what the college had to offer. Keith came along with me.

Lizzie said that they already have open source software called Mahara which we can use as a platform for a social networking website. Its not in current use yet so we could use it to create our idea, and it could be a way of cutting down the cost for running the website.

She also said that the idea for a social networking and portfolio website is something management are interested in and is something they are trying to set up already. A group of people called "the student web services" are planning on pitching there idea on Monday of next week and although they are setting it up, they want to get others involved and on board to carry it on, as like us they do not want to do it all themselves.

Mahara is being tested for its uses. We could also begin tests to see if our website and portfolio webiste would work on the platform or not, and if not then try to adapt our work to fit it. Lizzie has said that the main person to talk to about this would be John White, and she will give us his contact details via Email....
The problem with Mahara to us is that only students within the college would be able to view the work, we ideally wanted to get those from industry to also see what us as students were doing. it could however work for the part of collaborating within the college, i.e matching a sound designer with someone from post production.
To link in the industry the portfolios cannot be made to be public, we would only be able to link with them through other portfolio websites which defeats the object of what we are trying to do.

A last thing to note is that for prospective students who are wanting to come to the college, soon they will submit thier work for thier interview first and it will all be online. This is on an outside network which will allow outsiders to gain access to the college without the use for passwords and user names at such an early stage.

Communication

Its been quite difficult to communicate well within the group due to there being quite a few of us. Although we have tried meeting up in college, not everyone at the same time can always make it. We have a face book group which seems to work well, everyone knows what everyone else is mean to be doing, but a lot of information goes up thier and it can get quite confusing at times. New ideas, questions and progress has been updated daily.

I feel that if there were less of us, things may have got done quicker as everyone would know what has been done and what needed doing. It also hasnt help this unit being in the final term when everyone is trying thier best to get projects finished.

Meeting With Jill Hogan

A meeting has been set up with Jill Hogan who is in charge of branding for Ravensbourne college. We basically wanted to ask what we could and could not do with the Ravensbourne logo and what we should and should not be doing with it.

The main things to take from what she said was:

Incorperate the Ravensbourne logo but we are not to change it in any way

The logo can be made into black and white, but must keep the colours if we were to make the t shirt or design in different colours. we can use black on white or white on black...

We could use the chevron design and shapes to come up with an idea, and we would need to keep the Font for the logo the same, as with any writing that goes on the t-shirt.

She will need to check any designs before we get them printed and sold.

She said that there is a possibility for the college to buy the design or t-shirts for there up coming or big events they may put on in the near future, so it could be a good way to make money in the long run.
That or we could get commisioned to try and create more t-shirt designs for the different events....

Merchandising

I think we have now decided to only do merchandising for the company and the college as a way of getting money and promoting the service. I dont think we will now be doing models and selling merchandising for our films as this will over complicate the site and the films will change every year.

Merchandising_Online

Looking into Merchandising and how much its going for online.

These impressive figurines can go for anything up to $200.00 or more. A bit more than we would obviously make with our less than well known animated films we a re going to make.

The Opposition

Carlos gave me the job of Looking to find out our opposition to which who are also trying to start up a very similar business....

Below is what they intend to do....

The are called:

The Student Web Services.....

People involved:

Craig Gardner
David Christmas
George Alton

Summary of there enterprise:
The business is to be based around providing online services to students. The prime focus would be those who need temporary hosting and design services during their time at University/College. This could be for a range of things from actual term-time projects (something like Rave Live) through to online portfolio hosting.

The primary focus at the beginning is students who need temporary online services at some point. To that end our major USP would be that we would not attempt to lock the customer down into lengthy contracts but simply provide the service on a month by month basis.

To supplement this we would look firstly into providing basic template solutions that require the minimal amount of effort from the client in order for them to have a functional website, this would mostly be used for basic portfolio presentation during the job application process. Taking this further we could offer more complex and involved hosting/design/technical support services to student start-ups and larger projects.

• Would develop an “after University” support section for graduated students who wish to keep their services. This would be a major development once the original start-up was functioning and profitable.

• Mission statement: “we see ourselves providing personal, affordable and no ties web services to the student community. These can be tailored as little or as much as the clients require to help them achieve the best in their endeavours”

Measurable aim(s) of there enterprise

Highly attractive and affordable the natural flow of the student communications channels should do a lot for our promotion.

Promote e and e projects on the webiste

Aiming for 2 – 5 paying customers by the end of the project, spread over various services and at different levels of involvement (short term customers vs long term customers etc)

A starting point would be a website, moving through small-scale social media promotions (a Facebook group etc). The major driving force would be contacting people and making use of already established contacts to bring business and inherrently spread the word through their day-to-day conversations

Action Plan
Weeks 1&2 – Market research, infrastructure research
Weeks 3&4 – Set up own website and hosting, (obtaining/investing in static IP etc) begin to refine portfolio design templates
Weeks 3 – 6 – Promote via word of mouth/online presence and begin arranging client meetings and working to provide the first stages of solutions
Weeks 6+ – Continue with progress, re-asses and re-evaluate enterprise direction and adjust project goals/progress plans accordingly

Budget
havent worked out thier budget yet.

Exit Strategy/ Risk management
Two weeks of market research and technical research will give us a better idea of what we would stand to lose. However as is usually the case with Web infrastructure, the entire thing can be built on older systems and then migrated over to newer systems once investment and uptake have reached appropriate levels. This should minimize the lost investment if the project were to fail during the first 6 weeks.

After this point, the focus should be on continuing student uptake (helped by the fact that every year there are more students entering education) and retaining graduates (this part of the enterprise can be worked on at around a 6month point of the first year, once the original project is seen to be effective).

Merchandising Research

Merchandising.co.uk

Merchandising

Merchandising describes the way that companies get their products or services promoted. There are various ways of doing this and they all have the same aim - to get a company and/or its brand products in poll position to catch the eye of a potential customer.

Merchandising isn't just about where a product goes in a shop to catch the eye of a customer. There are also a lot of issues behind this kind of 'Point of Sale' merchandising that can affect the outcome. So, a company's marketing department also has to research issues such as packaging, promotions, tie-ins and pricing.

The most obvious merchandising route in retail terms is the Point of Sale route. So, for example, you could go into a supermarket and see a display set up by the entrance to sell videos from a specific company on a 3 for £10 offer. This will immediately catch your eye.

Another option here is selective merchandising where smaller shops will agree to sell a specific brand of a certain product (i.e. like ice creams and lollies) but not others. In return they will be given promotional tools, freezers and other incentives. Or a restaurant chain may be incentivised to sell one big brand of cola but not the other.

Another route that can be taken here is cross-selling merchandising. So, for example, the producers of a kid's TV show may do deals with clothes manufacturers and toy makers to have images from the show put to market on clothes and toys. This helps them build brand image and maximise profits.

Nowadays, sports merchandising is also big business. The companies, for example, that sponsor premiership football team get all kinds of advertising thrown in to the mix. Their company name or brand will appear on the TV regularly and fans will buy and wear the team shirts with their name on the front.

Print Advertising

Print advertising is the term used to describe adverts or advertising campaigns that appear in print media. So, adverts here can appear in:

• Newspapers - i.e. in local, national and international papers.
  
  
• Magazines - i.e. in local, national, international, niche and general magazines.
  
  
• Directories - i.e. in telephone directories such as Yellow Pages.
  
  
• Poster sites - i.e. on posters that are placed in specific billboard sites or in bus shelters, on public transport or at train stations.
  
  
• Catalogues - i.e. in store catalogues and free catalogues that are posted to customers as direct mail, dropped through letterboxes and/or inserted into newspapers and magazines.
  
  
• Leaflets, flyers and mailers - i.e. inserted into newspapers and magazines, left for customers to pick up in shops, sent by post as direct mail or hand delivered to your home.
  

Print advertising can take many forms. Some adverts will be primarily text based, some will mix text and images and some will have an image-based focus. They can be used to advertise products and services and may run as an individual advert or as part of a bigger advertising campaign.

As with any advertising it is important to know who your target audience is and what kind of advertising they are likely to respond to. So, for example, if you are selling computer components then placing an advertisement in a computer magazine may do well for you. But, placing an advert in a knitting magazine may not bring in such good results!

Online Advertising

Online adverts are a form of advertising that appears on the Internet - i.e. they appear online! These adverts are a specialist form of advertising and can serve both static and interactive uses. So, for example, a static advert simply works like a standard advert in that it gives/show a message and has a call to action. An interactive online advert gives/shows the message but the viewer can use the advert itself (usually by clicking on it) to move to the next stage.

Since the early days of online advertising this sector has moved on and there are now multiple ways that an individual or business can advertise over the Internet either via email or via web pages. The most popular ways of doing this include:

• Banner adverts - a banner advert will show you some information and will lead you to a website when you click on it. These adverts can be static or animated/use video and can run across the page or appear horizontally to the side (where they are known as skyscrapers).
  
  
• Pop ups - these adverts open up in front of the web page that is being looked at.
  
  
• Pop unders - pop unders send the advert behind the web page that is being looked at.
  
  
• In text advertising - here a word/words in a piece of text will be highlighted and underlined. When the reader moves the mouse over the word(s) then an advert will appear on the screen.
  
  
• Rich media adverts - these adverts may use hi-tech techniques to grab attention (such as animation, sound and video).
  
  
• Floating adverts - these adverts can be set up to float over content or to move across the screen.
  
  
• Trick advert - these adverts are designed to look like error messages.
  
  
• Interstitial adverts - these adverts will appear as you go through the pages of web site.
  

Given the technology in use with online advertising many people that want to use this form of advertising will use a independent specialist agency to help create and place their adverts. In some cases sites that sell these kinds of advertising on their own web sites will help with the design and creation of adverts for advertisers.

In general terms there are various ways that advertisers pay to have adverts appear on the Internet. They may, for example, pay on a Cost Per Impression (CPM) basis where they pay per 1000 impressions. Or, they may pay on a Pay Per Click (PPC) basis where they pay for every user that clicks on an advert that leads to their website. And, they may pay on a Cost Per Action (CPA) basis where they only pay if a visitor uses the advert to access their site and then buys or does something specific.

FreeLancing e and e day

The Shape of technology will change in 5-10 years.

When freelancing, you tend to provide your own tools.

Film unit specialists is different from self employment.
You do not get
sick pay
holiday
maternity

You have to provide a quote for the work
Invoice the people you work for
Employ others to do the work
When you do something wrong its at your own expense
You need public liability insurance.

You have to think about Tax how much to pay. Keep 1/3 of your salray aside

How much are you going to charge people for what you do for them?


When you are employed
Your have the right to be
Paid
contract
payslip
Sick and holiday pay
unpaid leave
Engage in union activitys
work no more than 48 hours per week
Safe environment


I need to have a look into agencies to see what they can do for me and my business....

The Name

The name has now changed to "The Third Nexus" for our website. Reasons being that "The Third Network" has already been taken from someone else. Nexus is the same meaning as Network, being connection or network. If we didnt change it in the long run it could lead to copyright and legal issues, so a quick change was agreed upon. It means that we can still use some of the logo designs and everything doesnt have to be changed......

Feedback from our formative submission......

We have been told to carry out more research into out target market, find out what they want out of our enterprise. It was also said that our idea would not make a lot of money out of it, charging for this service, students would not have the money to invest in something like this, and therefore we should come up with a idea for how to raise the money to create something like this.
He also said that we are not the only ones trying to set his up for the e and e project, there are others, so i will try and look into what they intend to offer the students so we can try and out-do them and make our work.....

What the college has at the moment:

What our college has at current:

The College Website and Intranet, Also Known As Moodle…..

The website allows to search the Library books and Source material that at currently available to borrow from the library.

Moodle, Intranet

The moodle intranet also allows students to download their timetables, and lecture notes and Briefs. Messages can be sent through the site allowing for communication.

The Student finder on Moodle allows for students and staff to be searched by course, level or by name, which will then give contact details of email addresses so students and staff can get in touch with each other.

Ravensbourne College has its own Webmail services, giving every student their own email address so important lecturers can hand out information easily.

There are forums where students can get involved and start conversations about issues they are having in the college, events that are going on and uploading work to forums to discuss.

There are also community forums, which are currently being used to place advertising for equipment people are trying to sell, and people just starting conversations casually.

Work placements opportunities have their own section and are updated by the employability team every day. So long as you are signed up to the webpage, everything can be emailed directly to you. This helps the students to know exactly what job opportunities and placements there are outside of the college.

We believe it could be helpful for a similar service, which would show what work is needed to be done within college too.

Careers and guidance on CVs, Freelancing and setting up your own business are all available for students to look at.

There is an Events page for outside the university and events within the college, but are they always updated? There isn’t anything else on the page at this time.

There are a few weaknesses within our idea for this portfolio website. One is of the costing for the project. There are already portfolios out there, which are available for free.

We have thought of a few ways to change the project slightly in order to make it work.

The Jobs pages are updated regularly, know one really looks much into them. It was then made easier that all jobs will be emailed to students if they sign up for them all to be emailed to them. is there a way of attracting the students for them to look at them.

The Target Market......

Our audience is the students of Ravensbourne.

Our target market should be easy to reach, they will all be around us when we are at college. Through word of mouth, email, facebook, college forums, we can ask the questions needed for our market research.

Promotion strategy consists of us selling the t-shirts by the main entrance to the college, and walking round wearing the t-shirts, asking if they would like to purchase one. Seen as the logo is for ravensbourne, we didn’t think trying to sell them out of college that anyone would buy one with the colleges logo on, so we stuck to ravensbourne college students only.

I tried to network with Lizzie Jackson, to try and findout what was going on in the college, as well as Jill Hogan, to try and find out what we could use for the branding on the t-shirts.

Quote From Lizzie Backing our Project

"Ravensbourne is about collaboration, therefore Ravensbourne management has

welcomed initiatives from students - and requests - to start a social media network which

has a focus within the Ravensbourne community. There is also a wish to provide a portfolio

'show and tell' area which is viewable both within and outside Ravensbourne.”

Research into the Companies providing similar services...

http://www.creative-cin.co.uk/

CIN is a creative site very similar to what we are planning to go for. It gives people the ability to put up their contact details and search for new jobs if they are put up on the site.

Events, training and news about the creative industry are also on the website.

It supports the creative industry, and helps individuals to share skills and get jobs they want.

We provide services to help individuals build the relationships they need to be successful – relationships with other creatives, with customers, suppliers, funders and others. In a sector where many people work alone, or in small organisations, CIN plays a vital role bringing people together, sharing information and skills, and providing support and inspiration. We provide services to help individuals build the relationships they need to be successful – relationships with other creatives, with customers, suppliers, funders and others. In a sector where many people work alone, or in small organisations, CIN plays a vital role bringing people together, sharing information and skills, and providing support and inspiration.

If you run your own creative business - or are just starting out – we’d like to encourage you to join CIN as a member. CIN is a non-profit making company effectively owned and driven by our members. Joining us will give you the chance to showcase your work online, get involved and take advantage of our many membership benefits. Of course, there are ways non-members can benefit too – sign-up to our free e-newsletter with just a couple of clicks if you like.

http://www.portfolioworkshop.com/

This portfolio website is for students of the Animation program that people can go to, like a college. It is a course and the students can upload there work to the website to help promote the course and the students to get jobs and promote themselves.

They can be followed on facebook and twitter.

http://www.foliotek.com/learn/StudentPortfolio.aspx

Foliotek is a website for students to upload and keep a back up of all there work.

Assessment Portfolio

In this program-controlled portfolio, candidates demonstrate competency and skill in program-specified outcomes.

Presentation Portfolio

Candidates can share exemplary work in customized presentations. Students control the creation, customization, and accessibility of this type of portfolio. Students commonly use these portfolios as comprehensive resumes.

Scrapbook Portfolio

Students can store and organize their files in one easy to manage online repository. This portfolio is private and student controlled. Students can link a scrapbook file to multiple portfolios. Editing a file updates every portfolio that references the file, making portfolio upkeep less time consuming.

Linkedin.co.uk

Professional networking site.

Its used to display jobs that companies and people need for people such as freelancers.

You can have your own profile with information and personal profile.

It’s a good website for networking with people within the industry as you can create connections with people in the industry and keep in contact with them.

www.myhammer.co.uk

Website for finding tradesmen and people to do a job for you.

You can post jobs and you can search for jobs and apply to do them.

You can sign up for free.

http://www.bigblackbag.com

Saves you Time

Update your web site with just a few simple clicks anywhere at anytime using just a web browser. You'll never have to wait for a web designer to update your web site again.

Gets you Business

Our portfolio websites use standards compliant HTML making all your content highly visible to search engines which translates into customers. We give you complete control over the content and metatags for each web page you create, allowing you to target the keywords that are important to your business. If that weren't enough, we also submit your website to all the major search engines for free!

Saves you Money

Why pay a designer to build and maintain your website? Even your nerdy little nephew can't compete with our prices. Pricing starts at just $8.99/month or $49/year. Pick a package that's right for you and upgrade with more features or bigger packages at anytime. And our highly respected support and advice is always free!

Makes you Look Good

Our system gives you complete control over every single design element making it incredibly simple for you to achieve the look you want without sacrificing good functionality for your viewers. Our templates employ new Dynamic HTML giving you all the animation and pizzazz that you’ve come to expect from websites designed in Flash but do not sacrifice search engine visibility!

http://www.basekit.com

Set-up your own website, you can put it to your own domain name and use templates to create a website.

It ranges from $6 to $24 depending on the package you will like.

http://foliofocus.com/

This Site allows people to upload there work and advertise themselves

Folio Focus is a web design gallery that exists to showcase excellent portfolio sites. Here you will find the best collection of portfolio sites from web and graphic designers, photographers, and other professionals that use a portfolio site.

While there are hundreds of general web design galleries, niche galleries like Folio Focus can prove to be a very valuable resource for anyone who wants to quickly find the best websites of a particular kind. Folio Focus is part of a network that includes four other niche galleries:

Our Competitors in Portfolios and Networking:

Our Competitors in Portfolios and Networking:

We have researched into whats already out there and if its needed:

Behance Network (www.behance.net)

Carbonmade (www.carbonmade.com)

Shown'd (www.shownd.com)

Coroflot (www.coroflot.com)

Professional on the Web (www.professionalontheweb.com)

Deviantart (www.deviantart.com)

design:related (www.designrelated.com)

Portfolio's Friend (www.portfoliosfriend.com)

The Portfolio network (www.theportfolionetwork.com)

Sunoasis (www.sunoasis.com)

Creative Cin (www.creative-cin.co.uk)

Portfolio Workshop (www.portfolioworkshop.com)

Foliotek (www.foliotek.com)

Linkedin (linkedin.co.uk)

MY Hammer (myhammer.co.uk)

Big Black Bag (bigblackbag.com)

Basekit (Basekit.com)

Folio Focus (foliofocus.com)

With all of these websites and companies looked at providing very similar services, we have gathered information of their strengths and weaknesses to try and get the best out of our service. The following applies to the strengths.

· Showcase online of peoples work

· Links everyone together

· Anyone can view the portfolios

· Jobs can be advertised

· Can be translated into a few languages

· Sign up for free.

· Can comment on services done by the person and put recommendations on.

· Jobs can be quoted for jobs.

· Can be linked and followed on Face book and twitter.

· Free e-newsletter for non members too

· Holds a clear creative directory for people to advertise jobs they want done

· Jobs can be searched through location and company and job type

· Hold special networking events

· User friendly set up.

· Accessible on the Iphone.

· When registering allows user to identify themselves as a person just looking for a job, just an employer and both.

· Very easy registering process

· The personal account page is very clearly laid out and easy on the eyes- nice light colours.

· There is a specialist section on the portfolio site, this is useful to employees as they can search by specialty with regards to software.

· Good layout and easy to navigate

Things to which we may want to avoid…

· Cluttered website – too much at once

· Have a big upload space as a limited upload space, may not be enough.

· Make clear who’s portfolio is being viewed and ensure that it cannot be changed from people on the outside.

· Not having the browsing easy to navigate, as getting to and from the homepage should be easy to use.

· Make sure the portfolios “look” are not all the same and unique.