Thanks, Rob. Very interested in social media integration. Looking forward to seeing the next set of plans.
J. M. Grenier, M.Ed. Faculty, Business and Humanities [email protected] Cell: (339)222-1442 ________________________________________ From: Rob Weir [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 9:35 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Iteration 1] Social Media Integration on OO.org Site On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Samer Mansour <[email protected]> wrote: > This thread is focused on completing the ability to share the download > page. A separate iteration will be planned for the rest of the site. A > following iteration will plan for a better share ecosystem, such as a > landing page to convince new users with a video about aoo. I still need to > draft up a plan. I will post that more likely this weekend to get feedback. > > Moving on, > > Subject 1: I was asked to provide the change in context. I've hosted an > edited HTML file with the open graph meta tags specified, facebook uses > this standard. I also added the schema.org tags as google+ uses that > standard. > > Here is the altered file: > http://www.winsor.ca/samer/aootest2.htm > Thanks! I tried it on my machine (Windows 7/Firefox 17.01) and it worked great. Is there something we can do to make this more integrated with the look of the page? Maybe reducing the saturation of the social icons would make them blend more? What's the right balance here? On the one hand we want to emphasize the links. On the other hand we want them to blend in well with the overall page design. So we want them to stick out, but not stick out too much. > Here is the difference when meta data is provided to the bots: > > https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=www.winsor.ca/samer/aootest.htm > vs. > https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=www.openoffice.org/download/ > > What do people think? One text change: It should be "OpenOffice" with no space in the messages. I like how you mention the 28 million downloads. That number increases by around a million every 7-10 days. So if we include a precise number this will quickly be out of date. Maybe we can say something more generic? > > Subject 2: I've placed two different types of social media integration > areas. > 1. Just below the download area. (These are wall-post buttons) > 2. Just below the right hand navigation links. (These are links to aoo > profiles) > Something to consider when we look at doing something site-wide. Take a look at a typical website page: http://www.openoffice.org/why/why_gov.html The following areas are part of the site-wide template: 1. The logo and tag 2. The announcement message 3. The top navigation menu (Product/Download/Support., etc.) 4. the footer (everything under the horizontal rule, copyright, etc.) We can also define additional locations in the template. For example, if we want a "social panel" or "social bar" at the top or bottom. So maybe we do the "share" buttons specifically for the download page, but do the "like/follow" ones in a site-wide fashion? > Subject 3: How many social sites do we add? (Definitely limited to ones we > already have created and supported.) We could pick a few key networks we > know we can support. > You have our current big three: Facebook, Twitter and Google+. > If you choose to reply, provide feedback corresponding to the subject > number. > > Samer
