Recently, I have had the opportunity to work as a social media consultant and designer on a new project in development. Tentatively titled “Stories,” the series is being developed by Marc N. Weiss, creator of the long-running PBS series P.O.V. and Tom Yellin, a long-time network news and public affairs producer.
In this role, I used a variety of online social networks including Twitter, Facebook, and a slew of forum, blogs, and dating sites to spread the word about this project and gather first-person stories about how people meet online and how we die. These stories are the foundation for a new TV series in development.
I, also, had the opportunity to do a light redesign of the “Meeting Online” site to tailor it more to the online daters we were courting. By simply altering graphics and the color palette of the site, I was able to add “pop” and an air of light-heartedness that was necessary to set it apart from other sites such as “How we Die”.
This multimedia project was created by Web Lab www.weblab.org, an online laboratory designed to use the Web to engage people in new ways on a wide range of public and private issues, in collaboration with The Documentary Group (www.thedocumentarygroup.com), a production company founded by the core members of PJ Productions following the death of their colleague and partner, legendary broadcaster Peter Jennings.
