DONATE PAGE

September 8th, 2009 by Ryan McGovern. Published under Uncategorized. No Comments.

DesignChat is entering week 21 and growing rapidly. The feedback has been fantastic. Although, it has been a challenge to balance the workload, as I’m also committed to a 9-5 plus gig. I want to do more with the show, so that is why I have decided to create a DONATE section for the website. The show will always be free, I’ll never turn this into a subscription or pay-for-play thing. In fact, it will soon be a free downloadable podcast on iTunes. Commercials are a possibility; they would be like the non-intrusive spoken word ones like you might see on a Diggnation or a Totally Rad Show. Until that happens, I can continue creating content for the Design community by surviving off of the donations. So I thank you in advance for your help. As an incentive, if you donate $20 or more, you can post your link to your website.

NEWS: I’m a little backed up with uploading the shows- sorry about that, folks. I’m getting a pro vimeo account soon and my data upload limit will increase. I have yet to post the chats with Daniel Burka, Dyna Moe, Paul Jenkins and Fabio Sasso, but I PROMISE they’re coming soon! Lots of good stuff coming up. I’ll be live broadcasting from the Cusp Conference next week and talking to some of the most interesting people on Earth. And of course, tomorrow is the chat with Carlos Segura.

DC15

August 3rd, 2009 by Ryan McGovern. Published under Uncategorized. No Comments.

DesignChat_15 from DesignChat on Vimeo.

DesignChat_15 from DesignChat on Vimeo.

DC14

July 27th, 2009 by Ryan McGovern. Published under Uncategorized. No Comments.

DesignChat_14 from DesignChat on Vimeo.

DC13

July 20th, 2009 by Ryan McGovern. Published under Uncategorized. No Comments.

DesignChat_13 from DesignChat on Vimeo.

DesignChat on Mashable!

June 26th, 2009 by Ryan McGovern. Published under Uncategorized. No Comments.

Wow, what a week. Mashable has caught wind of the #DesignChat community and Pete Cashmore (Mashable founder) invited us to use their chat interface. They co-developed a really cool way to do twitter chats using Tiny Chat’s live streaming video. And perfect timing too! We had already booked Fabio Sasso of @abduzeedo for the chat and he was willing to be on camera!!!

Mashable has asked us back and we couldn’t be happier to do so. This week’s guest is still a mystery but stay tuned to @hupajoob and @DesignChat for more info as it comes along! If you have anyone you would like to suggest please send me a twitter message!
Now that we’ve added the video component, the length of the chat had to be shortened to about 1hr15mins – but not to worry! We will continue chatting using the #designchat hashtag before and after the mashchat. I still recommend using twitterfall.com/#designchat to do so.

Behance To Publish Book

June 17th, 2009 by Ryan McGovern. Published under Uncategorized. No Comments.

Wow – @behance announced that it will be publishing a book in the near future on #designchat tonight! The premise: Ideas don’t happen because they’re great. I can’t wait to hear more about it – and I’ll post as soon as I do!

AMERICANS ON TWITTER

May 4th, 2009 by Ryan McGovern. Published under Uncategorized. No Comments.

I combined two pieces of recent data on Twitter and realized this:

DESIGNCHAT IS ABOUT COMMUNITY

April 29th, 2009 by Ryan McGovern. Published under Uncategorized. No Comments.

The people who participate in DesignChat will shape what it becomes. All subjects and questions are submitted by those who are present for the conversation. So be sure to submit them to @designchat. You can do this by sending a tweet to @designchat WITHOUT the hashtag #designchat. It’s done in this manner so we don’t side track the current topic.
During the conversation a question or topic is posed to the group as: Q1)The topic of discussion is this? #designchat
When you respond to it, start with Q1) so others can follow along in the discussion: Q1) I think this about that. #designchat
This format came from the inspiration for DesignChat: JournChat: a weekly twitter conversation for PR professionals and Journalists. Having its first conversation on Monday, November 24th, 2008, JournChat has already amassed more than 4400 followers. I witnessed the strength of this community for the first time in January of 2009 and started thinking about how I could re-purpose this format for design professionals. There are many great things that can come of it and I’m excited to see what the future brings.

FIRST CHAT TODAY!

April 22nd, 2009 by Ryan McGovern. Published under Uncategorized. No Comments.

I’m so excited to get going today! Log in to twitterfall.com or tweetchat.com and follow #designchat at 7pm central!!!!!
Don’t forget to send your questions or topics to @designchat!