(this email with my mySociety hat on) On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:25:19PM +0000, Matt Wardman wrote: > I think that points up a problem of there being so many political > resource websites > around. It's not surprising that people can't get to grips with all of > them. I have a slightly similar feeling getting to grips with > distributed debate sometimes. > > We still need a roadmap :-)
Yes! I'm increasingly aware that mySociety's brand is too fragmented into lots of sites. I'd like to see them integrated together. By which ultimately I mean (lots of the ideas below from Richard Pope): * A bar the same across the top of all sites that lets you find the others * New logos for each site, done in the same style * A new, and similar, graphic design for all the sites * A single sign-in system * Possibly uniform names (hard, but ideally e.g. mySociety MPs, mySociety Streets, mySociety Groups etc, or at least bundle the Parliament ones all under the TheyWorkForYou name) Roughly, I'm saying like Google has one brand, but dozens of sites. Yet they do all feel like they are the same site, and there is relatively low inertia in finding and using a new one. Final possible feature: * A personal page / casebook / profile / forum. It shows you everything you're doing on all sites and lets you track what you personally want to do in your research / campaign next. And you get help and support from others. It's a todo list and social network, specially for individual civic activism. What do people think? Francis _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
