Gone are the days where phone numbers are exchanged on the first meeting. You are now more likely to be asked: Can I friend you on Facebook?

And from there, a glance at your Facebook wall and your tagged photos become the first impression you will make.

Then a Facebook ‘like’ would follow, and a Facebook comment, and then Facebook messages. Facebook has inserted itself in-between our conversations. Augmenting them with statuses, links, and ‘likes’, while supplanting other traditional norms.

But what are the implications? What are the rules of a Facebook conversation?

Join us this month for a discussion on the topic of Conversations in the Age of Facebook. And together we’ll explore our collective experience with what is perhaps the most significant cultural shift of our time, as our identities become digital.

MDR

- RSVP on Facebook or monthlydesignreview@gmail.com
- Come and share a story, examples, and thoughts. (5 minutes or less)
- And together we will try to make sense of our collective experience.

Location / Date / Time

Thursday, February 17th 8pm.

The Salt Space
1158 Broadway 5th Floor
Entrance on W 27th St.

Join us in February for a round table discussion on the topic of: Conversations in the Age of Facebook.

- RSVP on Facebook or monthlydesignreview@gmail.com
- Come and share a story, examples, and thoughts. (5 minutes or less)
- And together we will try to make sense of our collective experience.

MDR

Conversations in the Age of Facebook

Inspired by our December guest speaker, Simon Sinek, who stated that, “We cannot have a real conversation on Facebook.”

MDR in turn asks you, “What kind of conversations are you having on Facebook?”

-What are some memorable conversations you’ve had on Facebook, or about Facebook?
-What makes a face to face conversation different from one carried over Facebook statuses, and comments?
-Do you express yourselves differently on Facebook?
-Do you respond differently on Facebook?

-And suppose “realness” is measured by how truthful and revealing you are about yourselves. Is a Facebook conversation less “real?”

-And as designers, what changes would you make to Facebook to facilitate “real” conversations?

Location / Date / Time

Thursday, February 17th 8pm.

The Salt Space
1158 Broadway 5th Floor
Entrance on W 27th St.

What a great way to kick off the New Year! Scott Belsky’s presentation was fantastic and provides such a strong framework for becoming actionable. The attendance was fantastic. The Salt Space was packed. We had just about 100 people soak up all that Scott had to say on Making Ideas Happen. We’re looking forward to the upcoming year. Be sure to stay up to date as we continue to experiment with ways to make design more accessible.

We’re excited for this Thursday and have had an overwhelming response for Scott Belsky’s talk. The capacity at the Salt Space is limited, and we have slightly overshot that capacity based on the Facebook Attendance.

Being a free event at the Salt Space, general admittance will be given on a first come first serve basis. We recommend showing up on time or a bit early.

Event starts at 8pm. Doors open at 7:30pm.

We’re honored to host Scott Belsky, CEO & Founder of Behance, at January’s Monthly Design Review. Being that Monthly Design is an experiment, our format changes from month to month. With the new year ahead of us, we have big plans for Monthly Design Review and are thrilled to have Scott kick off the new year helping us all focus on making our big ideas happen.

Scott Belsky believes that the greatest breakthroughs across all industries are a result of creative people and teams that are especially productive. As such, Scott has committed his professional life to help organize creative individuals, teams, and networks.

Scott is the founder and CEO of Behance, a company that develops products and services for creative industries. Behance oversees the Behance Network, the world’s leading online platform for creative professionals; The 99%, Behance’s think tank and annual conference devoted to execution in the creative world, and Action Method, a popular online/mobile productivity application and line of organizational paper products.

Scott is also the author of the national bestselling book Making Ideas Happen. Ideas are worthless if you can’t make them happen. Many of us believe that great ideas inevitably lead to success. Nothing could be further from the truth. Whether it is the perfect solution for an everyday problem or a bold new concept for a creative masterpiece, you must transform vision into reality for an idea to have value.

This book chronicles the methods of exceptionally productive creative leaders and teams – companies like Google, IDEO, and Disney, and individuals like author Chris Anderson and Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh – that make their ideas happen, time and time again.

Location / Date / Time

Thursday, January 20th 8pm.

The Salt Space
1158 Broadway 5th Floor
Entrance on W 27th St.

RSVP

As seating is limited, please RSVP via our Event on Facebook.

Tino Chow speaks about Monthly Design Review.

Tin-Ho Chow from Salt Space on Vimeo.

After a series of successful Monthly Design Review gatherings, we had decided to orient our web site to cover more of what’s going to happen and what’s happening in our gatherings.

Thanks to Pak-Kei Mak for the redesign of our web site! Stay tuned for more updates on upcoming events!