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Welcome to the official blog for RISD's advanced studio, Design for Social Entrepreneurship, Fall 2008. This course aims to cultivate social entrepreneurial designers by investigating the power of products, systems and services to create positive social and environmental change both internationally and domestically.

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Day 1: In Class Assignments

The afternoon assignments consisted of several tech savvy maneuvers to get ready for the rest of the semester. They included:

Sign up for a gmail account if you do not already have one.

Create a blog using your gmail account information as your login. -each students' blog is going to be used as the central hub of their documentation of their research and design projects, as well as a marketing exercise to get people interested in their thoughts and ideas.

Access google analytics. Find the tracking code, and add a gadget on your blog to add the encoded html. -google analytics is a tracking tool to see how many people visit one's sight, what do they look at, and for how long. It's a great way to experiment and see what works and what doesn't to grab people's attention in the world wide web.

Download del.icio.us bookmarking tools. -del.icio.us is a great online tool to track and organize one's research. With all the research students will be doing this semester, it is important to not only be able to sort through the information quickly, but also be able to share our research with others.

And all students are to take the survey!

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