Expression Space – Facebook Group

27Mar10

A Facebook group for Expression Space has existed since the beginning of the project, but I thought it deserves at least a mention and an explanation as to why I chose it. First of all join the group if you haven’t already! http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=256189489229&ref=ts.

The group at the moment has just under a hundred members. Slightly less that I would of liked but I’m happy with the level of participation from the members I do have. One of the first things I did at the beginning of the project was too make this group and for a couple of reasons. Mainly because I knew if I could gather many people together at the beginning, it would be much easier to notify people when events are happening later on. Rather than finding out someone has given me some space to use next week and I have to scurry around trying to advertise it, I can just send out a message to everyone already a member and I have an instant base in which to spread news and updates. The other main reason for starting a group is because I envisaged the project more like a grass roots movement. I was hoping that people who joined would actively participate in the direction and development of the project. Having everyone part of a group and not just becoming a fan of the project, which is another of facebooks page types, was important so that it felt like a group effort in pushing the project forward. The other delivery method on facebook called Pages lets people become ‘fans’ of the page giving them less options of participation, and more of a sidelines position than that of joining a group.

I’ve had many members of the group offer help with trying to acquire empty spaces, and a few of them have also participated in discussions on public space and its use by using the discussion board on the group page. I’m currently using the group to ask for ideas and suggestions with regards to the experiments, to see if anyone comes up with an ingenious idea for setting up a mobile expression space, I’ll let you know how it goes.

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