WOOF SOCIAL NETWORK PROPOSAL UPDATED

INTRODUCTION AND STATEMENT OF PROBLEM

We live in a world where as a result of a number of commitments and constant changes in contact details including address, email and phone number, regular interaction with others is limited. This leads to a number of other issues, namely:

·         Limited time to exchange ideas with others.

·         Limited time to meet with likeminded people.

·         Little or no room or time to reconnect with old friends.

·         Slow trend progression

More issues come up when we deal with smaller groups of people. Our focus now is on the FACULTY OF ENGINEERING in MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY. In this community, a group of people with entirely different backgrounds and cultures come together to pursue their dreams of becoming engineers. Due to the vast differences in the background and lack of common ground, interaction between students is limited and as a result there is a lot of unfulfilled potential.

HOW WE PLAN TO SOLVE THIS

According to Nikolaj Jan Piskorski, an associate professor at Harvard business school, “Online social networks are most useful when they address real failures in the operation of offline networks.”  . With our social network we plan to use humor which is good common ground for most people and one of the best icebreakers to help foster better relationships amongst the students in the faculty. Common interests is another uniting factor we plan to explore with our network. Standing by this, we plan to build a social networking system as a platform where people can :

·         Share funny  or interesting pictures of events in school

·         Share funny or  interesting videos of events in school

·         Chat with other users of the network

·         Meet new people

·         Share ideas with like minded people

OUR COURSE OF ACTION

We have been given 13 weeks to complete this project. The first 3 weeks will be used for planning and design, development along with planning and design diagrams will be implemented in the next 7 weeks. We then plan to go on with testing for the next week. After testing, a report will be compiled and a presentation given in week 13. Our blog,http://creatingwoof.blogspot.com/  will be uploaded with details of our progress and extra information and diagrams for the duration of this project

EVALUATION

Our endeavors will be judged a success if we:

·         Complete within the given time constraints (12 weeks)

·         Get users comfortable enough to upload pictures, start interactions with others and join groups.