As part of Futurelab’s Greater Expectations project we are currently developing a web resource called ‘Infocow – Social search for stufff that matters’.  We are finalising the branding for the site and are eager to get the views of young people aged 13-19 on the shortlist of designs.

As a result we are asking young people to vote on the designs.  Each entrant will be entered into a prize draw for a chance to win £50 of Amazon vouchers.

The deadline for entrants has been extended to Friday 8th of January at 4:30pm.

It would be greatly appreciated if you could forward this link onto any young people aged 13-19 who might be interested in voting on the InfoCow branding.  Specific details of the project and instructions on how to vote are below.

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InfoCow – Social search for stuff that matters.

We’re making a site called Infocow which aims to help young people aged 13-19 to get hold of useful information on things which affect their lives.

The Infocow site brings together 3 elements: Firstly hundreds of resources from the web are searchable on the site to help young people access useful sources of information.  These sites have come from research with young people and practitioners.  This pool will grow as more young people use the resource and suggest sites they find useful.   Secondly, Infocow offers the option for users to link their social network profiles to the site in order that they can share information among existing friends and networks (as an optional function). Lastly Infocow highlights specific statements around rights and entitlements related to users searches to support engagement with specific rights.

Right now, we need your help with choosing the style of the site and have asked 3 designers to come up with different logos. All we need you to do is look at the 9 logos in this PDF document and tell us which gets 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd place. We also need your age and gender.

Example:
1^st – number 4
2^nd – number 2
3^rd – number 9
Age 15
Female

Email your entry to greaterexpectations@futurelab.org.uk

Votes need to be in by 4:30pm on the 8th of January and we’ll be giving £50 of Amazon vouchers to one lucky entrant who will be contacted by email on 12^th Jan 2010. Please let us know if your main contact email is different from the one you use to send the entry.

Thanks for helping to develop this site and good luck with the prize draw.

The Greater Expectations team

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