Hello Gina, and a very warm welcome to Service Design Sydney.

This site is something a few of us (Zafer, Justin, Katrina, Linda, Joe, Fiona, Katja) talked about first at UX SD 12 and also at the #NewtownCM a few months back – a social site created by the service designers of Sydney for the service designers of Sydney.

Of course there's already a lot going on in Sydney – but we felt an online social context was also possible – and the SD ning site in Melbourne was an inspiration too.

Here you can:

• write blog posts
• add events, photos and videos to the site,
• start topics in the forum,
• invite service designers you know to join,
• comment on just about everything, or
• just keep an eye on what's happening.

This being a social site the more we all do here the more interesting it becomes for everyone.

While there's no editor deciding what gets published there may be just a bit of post facto moderation to keep it clean and on-topic.

I hope you find the site useful and enjoy your time here.

Best wishes,
Adrian

PS There's the regular coffee morning for service designers from 8am Thursdays at 414 Kent St. Hope you can join us.