Or take a page out of the recent pehnom, "www.threewords.me", and let people choose 3 words to describe a space/community and aggregate the popular ones at the top.
Neat idea. -Alex /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Joel Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > Jonathan/Alex- Would there be a possibility to allow them to “tag” the > space with terms that describe it? You could prepopulate some terms as part > of a check box or something (“open”, “collaborative”, “hip”, “artistic”, > etc.) but then allow them to choose a few of their own. Or maybe them only > choosing one word to describe the space would be better… “If you could > describe this community in one word/phrase, what would you say?”. Then > allow the terms to describe the space as part of a tag cloud based on the > users submissions. > > > > Just a thought. > > > > > > Thanks & God Bless, > > > > Joel Bennett > > Chief Dreamchaser > > Veel Hoeden, LLC > > [email protected] > > http://veelhoeden.posterous.com/ > > http://www.twitter.com/veelhoeden > > > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *Alex Hillman > *Sent:* Tuesday, February 01, 2011 9:11 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [Coworking] Coworking Registry Profile Wireframes > > > > I agree with Jerome on Alt. 2. > > > > The biggest thing I continually see missing from directories like this is a > sort of sense of humanity - physical attributes are useful in determining > what you DON'T want, but make it hard to differentiate between one space and > the next once you know what you DO want. > > > > Is there any room for fields that allow members (and possibly even > visitors) to describe the space's members (or perhaps an idea of industries > represented), interactions they've had, activities and associations, etc? > I'm trying to think of a listing on this directory more like a "dating > profile" where I can get a sense of the personality of a space and its > members beyond "how many desks it has". > > > > Maybe comments serves that purpose to begin, but I'm wondering if anyone > has ideas for other ways to elicit these kinds of non-physical attributes > and store them along with the directory listing? > > > > -Alex > > > > > > /ah > indyhall.org > coworking in philadelphia > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Jerome Chang <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Wow - looks great! I like alternate 2 the best - seems to have more > breathing room. > > What's the tall vertical box between the ads and the space photos for? > > > Jerome > ______________ > BLANKSPACES > "work FOR yourself, not BY yourself" > > www.blankspaces.com > 5405 Wilshire Blvd (2 blocks west of La Brea) > Los Angeles, CA 90036 > 323.330.9505 (office) > > > On Jan 31, 2011, at 5:06 PM, Jonathan Yankovich wrote: > > > I'm working on the profile pages for http://coworkingregistry.org, which > will hilight information specific to a given coworking facility. I mocked > up 3 wireframes and am looking for feedback from the community about how > they could be improved. Here are the 3 wireframes: > > > > https://skitch.com/tronathan/rc8ae/3-profile-page > > https://skitch.com/tronathan/rc8aq/4-profile-page-alternate > > https://skitch.com/tronathan/rc8ax/5-profile-page-alternate-2 > > > > Here's a list of the UI elements included on each page. There may be some > things missing, so let me know if you can think of anything else you'd like > to see added: > > > > Left Sidebar (common to all, same placement) > > Site name > > Google Map > > Text Geo Info (Address/City/State/Zip) > > Name of Space > > Mission Statement > > "Vital Statistics" (basic info, sqft, date founded, etc) > > Amenities (whats offered) > > Twitter Feed (Blog? RSS?) > > Photo List (user-contributable) > > Comments (user-contributable) > > > > Feel free to toss your ideas out in email, or if you use Skitch you can > mock up one of the posts above and send it back to me. If you think > anything is missing, feel free to contibute that too. > > > > Thanks all, > > > > -- > > -Jonathan Yankovich @tronathan > > Community Advocate, Madison Coworking > > Preferred contact: > > 1. skype: jonathanyankovich > > 2. twitter: tronathan > > 3. email: [email protected] > > 4. phone: (608) 513 2012 > > more info: http://coworkingregistry.org > > more info: http://madisoncoworking.com > > please follow @tronathan @coworkregistry @coworkmadison > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<coworking%[email protected]> > . > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<coworking%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<coworking%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<coworking%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. 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