In this post we will describe how the team worked together to develop the Britizen project and what technologies were employed for this purpose.

First meetings

When the teams were formed, a first meeting took place in order to introduce ourselves to the other members and explain everyone’s  experience and preferences to distribute the tasks.

Special Group meetings took place at the beginning of the project to discuss the main ideas face to face and come up with a conclusion about Britizen as a social network and its technical and social goals. Also, the list with expected contents provided for the assignment was printed and used in the following weeks as a guideline to decide the new tasks.

Weekly supervised meetings

The team arranged a meeting with the project supervisor every week. In these meetings, the achieved goals were explained and the supervisor provided with his feedback and advices to improve our work or determine the new tasks.

Each member updated the others on their individual achievements and new task distribution (short term and long term) was discussed. During the meetings, the members took notes of the points reviewed in order to discuss them later through the Messenger group.

During the lastest stage of the project, we created a “Britizen Plan & Progress” document where all the assigned tasks were described, to be used as a checklist and determine which aspects needed to be completed.

A number of technologies were used in order to ease the communication among the members of the group, share contents and overcome the logistic problems:

Facebook Messenger Group

This free platform was used for the following tasks:

• Discuss the short term goals.
• Share light multimedia contents and links.
• Update the other members on indidivual achievements.
• Arrange meetings and express our availability.
• Review the assigned tasks.
• Used as a forum to express our doubts and help each other.

The use of this tool was essential as our schedules did not allow us to program daily meetings, so we found in Facebook Messenger an excellent way to keep in contact with the other members at any time.

Google Drive

This cloud storage system was used as a repository to include all the multimedia contents that were created for the project. A share folder was created, including:

• A collection of links to be used for documenting and research at the first stages of the project.
• Documents with the contents of posts in order to publicly modify them on real time.
• Statements of the distribution of tasks.
• Multimedia contents with a bigger size.

University Email Client

In order to get in contact with our supervisor and share official documents such as the Ethics application, the team members made use of their official university accounts.