First a foremost, a hearty welcome to Habari Brendan :) Targeting major industry players (industry as in blogging) should be the primary goal, for the reason mentioned i
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 6:36 AM, Brendan Borlase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Oh, and one last thing. You don't have to "target" anyone persay. > > You don't even have to change a single line of code, or the direction. > Approaching major industry players (industry as in blogging) is obviously, the way that would most impact promoting Habari as a tool. There're no reason over the ones that you put. However, if we want to expect a switch, we will have to listen to feedback, possibly add things accordingly. Mind you, this is no different from responding to other users feedback. Major feature or even change suggestions will be passed to the community as ever, before actually being implemented. This is no different from users suggestion, except for the significance of their impact in promoting Habari. My point is, breifly, that our response to change or addition suggestions should not be biased. We should respond these suggestions from the "elite blogger" exactly like we do to the ones from the "avarage bloggers". As Owen pointed out, there is indeed nothing that A-list bloggers need that we don't want to provide for the avarage bloggers. This is about engaging people with passion. They tend to be the folks > that have built a big readership and have a great deal of influence. There's the key. Up there :) > Best, > > Brendan. > > > On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 12:30 PM, shep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I always saw habari as a grass roots kind of thing. start with > > passionate users and spread the word that way and not targeting > > celebrity endorsements. *shrugs* > > > > On Aug 30, 4:58 pm, Owen Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> shep wrote: > >> > actually, it does have something to do with it, because as the > >> > previous posts were discussing, habari doesn't have the wow factor to > >> > grab the average blogger. which is where you started talking about > >> > the elite bloggers and how we need to target them, which i disagree > >> > with. we need the wow factor for the average blogger, and until we > >> > add things for the average blogger to target them (better theme > >> > support, updated importers, modules/widgets/whatever, more themes and > >> > plugins) we won't get them. > >> > >> We're certainly not changing Habari to target one group or another with > >> features; However, we are targeting our marketing effort most > >> effectively by spending the least effort to reach the most users. > >> > >> We would unquestionably spend our marketing efforts better by > >> approaching bloggers having larger audiences than approaching an > >> equivalent audience-worth of average bloggers. > >> > >> Those A-list bloggers, by virtue of talking about or using Habari, would > >> then extend our reach to a larger number of average bloggers than we > >> could ever reach on our own. I believe that is the logic in approaching > >> the "elite" blogger. > >> > >> If there is a different way to reach an equivalent number of average joe > >> bloggers directly, I'd like to know what that is. > >> > >> If anyone means to suggest that we change Habari features to cater to an > >> elite blogging crowd, please say so now, since I would take issue with > >> the idea that A-list bloggers would want or need anything different from > >> blog software than what we should provide to the average blogger. I am > >> pretty sure that no one is suggesting this though. > >> > >> Owen > > > > > > > > > -- Ali B / dmondark http://www.awhitebox.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
