Hi Cindi,
cindi abribat wrote:
I think it's the message. I think of a wiki and evermore when I think
collaboration tools. How us your offering better/different? In this
day and age I think a simple short animation would be your best bet to
covey your message. No on wants to get bogged down reading how it will
work and how it's better than what is already out there. Show me ...
Thanks for the suggestion - kind of dovetails with a lot of the feedback
I've been getting - and will make its way into the Kickstarter materials.
But even with the greatest presentation, I'm still stuck with the issue
of how do I get people's attention in the first place? Part of it is
message, but part of it is finding eyeballs to read the message and
follow a link. Right now, under 300 folks have even clicked on the
Kickstarter video - clearly I'm either reaching out to the wrong crowd,
or I'm not grabbing enough attention to drive people to click and look
further.
For me, the issue keeps coming back to:
- project management is a real pain, and it's gotten harder with virtual
teams - it's easy if everyone can stand in front of a whiteboard every
few days, but in these days of being spread around the net, and working
multiple projects, it's a nightmare
- simple tools have gotten onerous - send out an action item list by
email, and suddenly we're juggling 100s of messages, each one containing
a question, an answer, a detail, a status update -- pulling together the
big picture is a real pain
- one approach is to put everything on a central server - a Wiki, a
Google Spreadsheet - but that has all the issues of requiring constant
connectivity, and being tied to a vendor
- I keep seeing the simple answer being linked spreadsheets, but those
don't really work across the net, and they're proprietary
Hence, I'm trying to build linked spreadsheets, that run in a browser,
store as local files, and communicate via a peer-to-peer protocol.
I think it would be useful, nobody else is doing it, and the latest
browsers make it doable. But... how to make it "sexy," and/or how to
reach people who might get excited about the idea - that's a real
stumbling block.
The standard approach - build it, put it out there, hope that people get
excited by the product is the fallback; but that runs into having to do
other work to pay the bills - hence the Kickstarter pitch to try to
raise enough funds to dedicate myself to the project. Which brings me
back to: Is there an audience, and how to get them to take a look.
And... more specifically, to what extent are folks involved in
co-working feeling pain associated with managing virtual teams and projects?
Thanks,
Miles
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