New Collaborator’s for Moosicorn!

I can’t tell you how excited Alex and I are to have gained help from some Webster University (St. Louis – Missouri) students!  (class pictured above) I apologize for not having all their names – perhaps they will see the post and tell us who they are in the comments.  But… they have all taken a look through the site and provided us with a ton of feedback as part of a class project.

We had for sometime been hoping to re-design our website and who better to help with that effort than exactly the sort of folks we hope would get involved/inspired/engaged by what we’re doing at Moosicorn.  After reading through all of their papers we understood what we were doing better than we ever had before.  They discussed the voice of the site, layout, navigation, content, and helped point out many shortcomings.  Some of which we were aware of, but some we had never even considered.  This feedback will go along way as we work on the new site and we owe them many thanks!

One disturbing trend I noticed in their comments however was a call for video on the site… while I totally agree that videos are a great way of engaging people, they require me to be on camera.  Eeek!  Not an idea I’m overly comfortable with, so we’ll see how that goes.  Alex and I have begun looking into video cameras that will serve our purposes if we go that direction though.

Thank you so much to Erin Bullerdieck (old college buddy of mine) and her class.  I hope we can find new ways to collaborate with Webster students.  There are also a couple of universities fairly close to the property in Spokane.  Perhaps we’ll also be able to use these efforts as an outreach to those students to get involved as well.  Eventually we would like to have the agriculture students consult on our organic gardens.   We intend on hosting a design/build competition to develop sustainable cottages on the property at some stage as well, something I feel would be a great fit for architecture and engineering students.  Then there’s the art!  So many opportunities!

We’ll keep you posted as the new site progresses.  We hope to have it up in early January.  Thank you so much!  Talk to you soon.