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--=_c3ec5b05f47c8ef47d14197525ae0a1f Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Reggie, Concerning the front page of maemo.org, one of my suggestions during the IRC meeting yesterday was to "mashup" all of the news/planet/talk excerpts into a single _hot topics_ (or "Latest News" or whetever) area, so that all of the content was equal on the front page. Of course, each of these different types of content could be signified by an icon (or something)... What is your opinion of this method? Or, is it important that news/etc be distinctly separated from the forum content? Thanks, Tim On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:04:58 -0500, "Reggie Suplido" wrote: From my experience, the labels don't really mean much -- it's really how you lead the visitors to the forum/discussions pages. I've seen successful sites using Forum, Forums, Community, Discuss, etc., even just plain talk bubble icons with no labels. The way to encourage visitors to join the discussion is to have some sort of 'Active Topics' or "Hot Topics" somewhere on the main page and other important pages of the site. Once they see where the forum is, they know where to go next time. Btw, majority of first time visitors find the forum threads via Google. On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Tim wrote: Message-ID: X-Sender: [email protected] [1] Received: from ppp-70-244-240-232.dsl.ksc2mo.swbell.net [6] [70.244.240.232] with HTTP/1.1 (POST); Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:06:38 -0700 User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.1-rc2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Let's CC Reggie. I think he's on maemo-community. T. On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:02:51 -0500, Ryan Abel wrote: > On Jan 14, 2009, at 9:00 AM, Dave Neary wrote: > >> Ryan Abel wrote: >> >>> On Jan 14, 2009, at 8:36 AM, Dave Neary wrote: >>> >>>> Why the insistence on "Talk" (which anyone not currently on ITt >>>> won't >>>> understand the meaning of) rather than "Forum" (which everyone and >>>> his >>>> dog now knows the meaning of)? Is there some justofication I'm >>>> missing? >>> >>> Because that is what was decided. >>> >>> > http://www.internettablettalk.com/2008/12/02/internet-tablet-talk-to-become-talkmaemoorg/ [8] >> >> I can understand that Internet Tablet Talk is to be renamed as >> talk.maemo.org [9] - what I'm wondering is why we have to refer to it as >> "talk" rather than, say, "forum". A label which some people not in the >> Maemo community might have some chance of understanding, and thus >> clicking more often. > > Let's CC Reggie. > > -- > Ryan Abel > Maemo Community Council chair > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-community mailing list > [email protected] [10] > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community [11] -- http://tim.samoff.com [12] _______________________________________________ maemo-community mailing list [email protected] [10] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community [11] http://tim.samoff.com Links: ------ [1] mailto:[email protected] [2] mailto:[email protected] [3] mailto:[email protected] [4] mailto:[email protected] [5] mailto:[email protected] [6] http://ppp-70-244-240-232.dsl.ksc2mo.swbell.net [7] mailto:[email protected] [8] http://www.internettablettalk.com/2008/12/02/internet-tablet-talk-to-become-talkmaemoorg/ [9] http://talk.maemo.org [10] mailto:[email protected] [11] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community [12] http://tim.samoff.com --=_c3ec5b05f47c8ef47d14197525ae0a1f Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <p> Reggie, </p> <p> Concerning the front page of maemo.org, one of my suggestions during the IR= C meeting yesterday was to "mashup" all of the news/planet/talk e= xcerpts into a single _hot topics_ (or "Latest News" or whetever)= area, so that all of the content was equal on the front page. Of course, e= ach of these different types of content could be signified by an icon (or s= omething)... </p> <p> What is your opinion of this method? Or, is it important that news/etc be d= istinctly separated from the forum content? </p> <p> Thanks, </p> <p> Tim </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:04:58 -0500, "Reggie Suplido" wrote: </p> <blockquote style=3D"border-left: 2px solid #1010ff; padding-left: 5px; mar= gin-left: 5px; width: 100%"> From my experience, the labels don't really mean much -- it's really how y= ou lead the visitors to the forum/discussions pages. I've seen successful s= ites using Forum, Forums, Community, Discuss, etc., even just plain talk bu= bble icons with no labels. The way to encourage visitors to join the discus= sion is to have some sort of 'Active Topics' or "Hot Topics" some= where on the main page and other important pages of the site. Once they see= where the forum is, they know where to go next time. <div> <br /> </div> <div> Btw, majority of first time visitors find the forum threads via Google. </div> <div> <br /> </div> <div> <br /> <br /> <div class=3D"gmail_quote"> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Tim <span><<a href=3D"mailto:t...@samof= f.com">[email protected]</a>></span> wrote:<br /> <blockquote style=3D"border-left: 1px solid #cccccc; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0= .8ex; padding-left: 1ex"> <div class=3D"Ih2E3d"> <<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]";>1C6= [email protected]</a>><br /> </div> <<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]";>496df00c.8010...@maemo.= org</a>> <<a href=3D"mailto:2795cd14-dc7c-4039-97d8-255bcc18f...@gmai= l.com">[email protected]</a>><br /> Message-ID: <<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]= amoff.com">[email protected]</a>><br /> <div class=3D"Ih2E3d"> X-Sender: <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a><br /> Received: from <a href=3D"http://ppp-70-244-240-232.dsl.ksc2mo.swbell.net= " target=3D"_blank">ppp-70-244-240-232.dsl.ksc2mo.swbell.net</a> [70.244.24= 0.232] with<br /> </div> HTTP/1.1 (POST); Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:06:38 -0= 700<br /> <div class=3D"Ih2E3d"> User-Agent: RoundCube Webmail/0.1-rc2<br /> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3D"UTF-8"<br /> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit<br /> <br /> <br /> </div> > Let's CC Reggie.<br /> <br /> I think he's on maemo-community.<br /> <br /> T.<br /> <div> <div class=3D"Wj3C7c"> <br /> <br /> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:02:51 -0500, Ryan Abel <<a href=3D"mailto:rabel= [email protected]">[email protected]</a>> wrote:<br /> > On Jan 14, 2009, at 9:00 AM, Dave Neary wrote:<br /> ><br /> >> Ryan Abel wrote:<br /> >><br /> >>> On Jan 14, 2009, at 8:36 AM, Dave Neary wrote:<br /> >>><br /> >>>> Why the insistence on "Talk" (which anyone not= currently on ITt<br /> >>>> won't<br /> >>>> understand the meaning of) rather than "Forum"= (which everyone and<br /> >>>> his<br /> >>>> dog now knows the meaning of)? Is there some justoficati= on I'm<br /> >>>> missing?<br /> >>><br /> >>> Because that is what was decided.<br /> >>><br /> >>><br /> ><br /> <a href=3D"http://www.internettablettalk.com/2008/12/02/internet-tablet-t= alk-to-become-talkmaemoorg/" target=3D"_blank">http://www.internettablettal= k.com/2008/12/02/internet-tablet-talk-to-become-talkmaemoorg/</a><br /> >><br /> >> I can understand that Internet Tablet Talk is to be renamed as<b= r /> >> <a href=3D"http://talk.maemo.org"; target=3D"_blank">talk.maemo.o= rg</a> - what I'm wondering is why we have to refer to it as<br /> >> "talk" rather than, say, "forum". A label wh= ich some people not in the<br /> >> Maemo community might have some chance of understanding, and thu= s<br /> >> clicking more often.<br /> ><br /> > Let's CC Reggie.<br /> ><br /> > --<br /> > Ryan Abel<br /> > Maemo Community Council chair<br /> ><br /> </div> </div> <div class=3D"Ih2E3d"> > _______________________________________________<br /> > maemo-community mailing list<br /> > <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]= rg</a><br /> > <a href=3D"https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community"= target=3D"_blank">https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community= </a><br /> </div> <font color=3D"#888888">--<br /> <a href=3D"http://tim.samoff.com"; target=3D"_blank">http://tim.samoff.com= </a><br /> </font> <div> <div class=3D"Wj3C7c"> <br /> _______________________________________________<br /> maemo-community mailing list<br /> <a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a= ><br /> <a href=3D"https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community"; targ= et=3D"_blank">https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community</a><= br /> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> <br /> </div> </blockquote> <span id=3D"_rc_sig"> <pre> http://tim.samoff.com </pre> </span> <p> </p> --=_c3ec5b05f47c8ef47d14197525ae0a1f-- _______________________________________________ maemo-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community
