On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 10:34 -0800, Andy Brown wrote: > I have placed a pdf copy of the pamphlet at > http://www.the-martin-byrd.net/OOoPamphlet.pdf . Thanks Lars. > > -- > Andy Brown
Hi, Thanks for the effort to produce the pamphlet, it is a lot or work. >From a visual perspective, it is a lot of words, which can be daunting to the receiver. It would benefit from more "white space" and at least one clear screenshot of a writer page showing the tool bars (which could span a fold). With the discussion of suitability for user groups, many of the points were common, and could have shared a common space at the top, the others need to be bullet points well spaced. Rather than the list of links on the brochure, just one would suffice, to the OOo homepage. By trimming much of the editorial whitespace can be made available to allow the bullet points to stand out. The idea of a pamphlet is to arrest the receiver's attention. Where it is too densely populated with words, it is often binned because it is too much effort. We don't have to tell the whole story up front, we just have to get them to read it, go to the website and download OOo. The website should cover the benefits for different user groups in more detail, starting with a link like "More info for pamphlet readers" for example. Now that the initial hard work is done, the editing can really turn this into a fantastic resource. The idea (which has just sprung to mind as I write this) could be developed further by having specific pamphlets for the different market segments: Home, Business, Education, Government. If the initial pamphlet drives people to the website, then they could download a pamphlet to take back to their particular organisation, to initiate the discussion about using OOo. Cheers Andrew Greig Community Distributor, OpenOffice.org Melbourne, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
