The project involved researching and proposing an online community strategy to support Becta's key role in emerging technologies and trends that encourage innovative practice in the education sector. Audiences from across industry education and technology will be potential authors and contributors so an integral part of the strategy is to enable the environment to be self-sustaining and a natural extension of the way these audiences work.

Key Activities included:

• Audience research, initial workshops and interviews
• Personas, use cases, user flows and information structuring
• Developing the overall user experience and journey
• Innovative use of Web 2.0 and collaboration functionality
• Developing a series of specifications (user, content, functional)
• Wireframing and prototyping
• User testing and validation of concepts and journeys
• Online branding and user interface creation