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Diary of Deeds DOD – Nigerian Social Network

DiaryofDeeds was co-created by 2 young talents. Adepoju-Conde Oluwasegun and Bashiru Ismail Babatunde. The idea came late 2009 after Segun watched a movie called day of the dead. 

He wanted to make a social network that members could discuss about their lost loved ones. At first he came up with the name Diary of Dead (DOD).

But after enquiry from the public and friends he decided to change it to Diary of Deeds, still retaining the DOD acronym. "Different in concept from most of the typical the social networks out there, It is the only social network that allows you to keep and share a diary of your deeds in an unusual and unique manner." 

Design of DiaryofDeeds

The first design of DiaryofDeeds was single-handedly done by Adepoju Conde, it was okay but lacked appeal. The design was poor. Then Bashiru Ismail Babatunde came into the picture.

Being his room-mate and NACOSS Special Adviser (Adepoju Conde is the current president of NACOSS, Crawford Chapter), he was the perfect partner for such a serious project. He did the first design and Adepoju Conde Segun was extremely impressed. That was how Bashiru Ismail Babatunde got involved.

The current DiaryofDeeds took almost 2 years to become a reality, but the actual transformation lasted just 5 months. It took a lot of sleepless nights and total dedication to make it a reality.

But, glory be to God. Diary of Deeds is up. According to the young gurus, the current website diaryfdeeds.com is just the first step in so many plans they have. A new design for DiaryofDeeds is in progress. With this new design, users will be able to open and choose from different colour templates. Also in progress are the mobile diaries which would enable users update deeds straight from there phones.

Guideline

Below is a little guideline on how to use the current diaryofdeeds.com website.

The Welcome Page

The signup form consists of three main fields.

• DiaryName - This is going to be the name of your diary. Users will refer to you using this name!

• Email Address - Your e-mail address should be entered here! It will be used for opening your diary (signing in) after signup.

• Password - Your personal password should be entered here!

• The last thing is the Botcheck field (captcha). It is used for security purposes. DiaryofDeeds was created for persons only and not machines. You can refresh the captcha if you can't see the text clearly. You can also click on the audio button to listen to the content of the field.

After signing up, we are redirected to the getting-started page where we complete the signup process by uploading our profile picture and updating the profile information. We also learn how to post deeds in our diary.
 

How exactly does the diary operate?

3 main pages exist under the diary. Monitor, Home and Xclusive. What do they do?

• Timeline - This is where you post deeds and share your thoughts for the whole world to see. Deeds can only be viewed. They can't be commented on, liked or edited.

• Home - This is where you post deeds, your daily activities for friends to see. People who find your diary entertaining can adopt your diary, read your updates, like and comment on them if they choose to do so.

• Xclusive - Not all our deeds are meant to be shared with people. We can keep an exclusive diary where we write stuffs for our eyes only. Special moments of our lives, either good or bad are meant to be documented. DOD does that for us. We can also attach pictures to our updates here.

The Games page is another fun center for we game lovers. We can play games online at our leisure time.

With a sophisticated chat system, you can chat easily with your adopters (people who adopted your diary) and adoptees (people whose diary you adopted). If busy, you can decide to decline chat requests and continue with your business. You can also send messages across to people.

Advertisement

For now, DOD runs a free advertisement programme where you can advertise, yourself, NGO or company.

We call on the public to make use of www.diaryofdeeds.com  Diary of Deeds is just at its beginning stage. A lot more is coming. God bless DOD members. God bless DOD supporters. God bless the world.

By

Tunde Bashiru

Co-CEO at diaryofdeeds.com

Tunde Bashiru (Bashiru Ismail Babatunde), an outstanding youth software programmer/web developer superbly led the 2011 Software Development Capacity Building Initiative.

Related info can be found here: Youth Software Development Interview with Tunde Bashiru