Hi Louis;
On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 10:09 -0500, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
> Hi,
> On 2007-11-20, at 09:22 , William Case wrote:
> > Has a deadline been decreed from on high?
> me: but also we have been playing with this since September or so and
> if we don't do the deadline act we don't act :-)
>
Sorry for being cryptic. I was told that the process had just started.
>
> > Or, do you feel that it is
> > best to start with the end product, and collect the data and write the
> > specifications later?
>
> We have been gathering spec and ideas for several months. What more do
> you need? If we don't have what we want now, we won't ever. We know
> enough. We know our audience and we have a sense of what we want.
> Let's do it now.
>
At the risk of appearing bureaucratic, no final and accepted
specifications have been established that I can find. As a result page
designers are just taking a shot in the dark, hoping that maybe their
sense of creativity is close to what is needed.
At the risk of insulting work already done, most of the criteria and
samples seem sterile, perhaps inviting for an engineer but not following
established principles that work for "marketing", "sales" or "volunteer
recruitment".
On the Wiki I tried to nudge people in that direction. It seems people
missed the point. Therefore; bluntly,
Recruiting Volunteers -- found 40 -50 sites.
Marketing Principles -- found 30.4 million hits e.g.
http://www.wilsonweb.com/wmt5/viral-principles.htm
Selling on the Internet. -- lots of chaff but some good kernels
Scientific American -- Several good articles/studies on how to
sell goods, ideas or a service -- I am trying to locate them now
so I can quote them.
Suggested a review of the problems that people are reporting
with the home page directly or indirectly -- that suggestion was
interpreted as a request for application fixes.
I retired recently, but I am willing to go through boxes of
stored data and old plans to pull something together.
I have a background in creating Strategic Communications Plans. That
is, in writing and implementing plans for communicating with client
groups of all kinds, in all manner of ways. Strategy is about
integrating the various forms, times and places of messages so that they
get through and reinforce each other.
I am not asking for a guarantee of acceptance, but if I can have
assurance that a strategic communication plan for the OOo home page, and
deeper, will be given a fair hearing, I will take a day and write one in
bullet form for OOo. I will use what we know and/or surmise and suggest
areas where we really need to know more and how to get it.
I am a little confused: shouldn't we be communicating through the Wiki
rather than email?
--
Regards Bill
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