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agree w/ josh - sunday's good, weekly meetings :)

/dust


On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Joshua Utter <biblianthrope@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Sundays are generally good for me.
>
> But with the current goals, and the work required to accomplish them, I
> wouldn't mind scheduling a regular weekly meeting (irc, conf. call,
> whatever) to keep the process flowing.  Any thoughts?
> On May 11, 2011 12:46 PM, "Toast McFarland" <toast@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > This seems OK to me.
> >
> > On 5/11/2011 3:43 PM, Eddie Geller wrote:
> >> Thanks so much for this input!
> >>
> >> How do people feel about a Sunday afternoon/evening IRC meeting?
> >>
> >> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 9:45 AM, BrainKwiz <780488@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> <mailto:780488@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >>
> >> @kage I agree, from a marketing perspective there are basic elements
> >> that need to be addressed, moving forward:
> >>
> >> 1. There is no point to any material being presenting without a
> >> Call to
> >> Action. (e.g. Click here to Donate, Click here to join, etc.) While
> >> having video on the front page is a techinical achievement, even the
> >> mock-up should present, in effect, a TL:DR caption that combines a
> >> talking point and a call to action. (Watch this and learn why you
> >> should
> >> donate today.)
> >>
> >> 2. Who are we? IMHO, the current logo needs Open Source Democracy
> >> Foundation, in text, in each use. We aren't IBM. In fact, a simple
> >> statement of who we are philosophically, easily digestable, would
> >> allow for better adoption by those interested in the concept (e.g.
> >> Joining together for fair fast internet, Concerned aware
> >> supporters of a free and open internet).
> >> A consistant image and branding statement will go far in giving
> >> people a hook. (i.e. Give Blood, Only You Can Prevent Forest
> >> Fires, etc)
> >>
> >> 3. Lifestyle photography, marketing depends on allowing people to
> >> visualize themselves as "better", Pretty people organizing makes
> >> people
> >> want to be a part of the action. Something that portrays our cause as
> >> full of good healthy concerned people who are social and part of
> >> the in-
> >> crowd. While this may seems manipulative, it is only required
> >> because it
> >> work. This should also be a diversity picture, to show that all
> >> walks of
> >> life share our concerns. The recent Reddit meetup pic of 70+ Redditors
> >> is the image I'd want to emulate.
> >>
> >> 4. An Audit of Simlar organization's sites. Talent borrows and genius
> >> steals. Other organizations have struggled with this and we don't need
> >> to recreate the wheel. If you started with the top six aspects of the
> >> other sites and accomplished them, you'd be better than 80% of the
> >> other
> >> sites competing for supporters. Blog, Donations, Volunteer Sign Up,
> >> Events, Forum, Downloads (e.g. talking points, pdf signage, etc.) and
> >> Social Links will most likely be in all?
> >>
> >> 5. FAB selling, Feature Advantage Benefit, basically you need to state
> >> the Feature, Advantage and Benefit in any marketing effort. You can't
> >> assume others will make the connections you do. (i.e. Feature: We
> >> lobby
> >> for internet legislation that benefits the average user.
> >> Advantage: You
> >> can support us with donations and involvement and get your message to
> >> politicians without physically talking to them or traveling to them.
> >> Benefit: You save time and money while making your political voice
> >> heard.) If you formulate your talking points and content this way, you
> >> will lead each listener towards agreeing to help the cause. The
> >> benefit
> >> statement usually breaks down into, saves time, saves money, more
> >> reliable, more versatile, upgradeable. I would be happy to make a
> >> first
> >> draft as a google spreadsheet or a forum entry or a bug report.
> >>
> >> If you do a good job on the FAB statements, visualization,
> >> illustration
> >> and video support will find it's place and seem less cluttered. If
> >> these
> >> talking points exist, here or with another organization, point me to
> >> them and I'd be happy to do a few mock ups for ideas.
> >>
> >> 6. Magnify the headache. What about a simulated, side by side
> >> comparison
> >> of the possible degraded download speed that may result from suggested
> >> anti-net neutrality proposals? Political cartoons do this all the
> >> time.
> >> Bring it down to where it hurts the majority. (i.e. No one likes
> >> longer
> >> lines, at the gas pump, at the grocery store, on their download
> >> progress
> >> bars... associate the headache with other headaches.)
> >>
> >> Anyway, I'm still lurking, If this would be better posted at the
> >> forum,
> >> so be it, but the action seems to be here now :) If you want simple,
> >> make it easy for a person to donate or volunteer from the front page.
> >> Those should be your main objectives, the news/blog stuff is
> >> really only
> >> on target if it causes a donation or a volunteer. One may be
> >> interested
> >> and following current events, but many will simply not opt for us as a
> >> news outlet, so where is the arguement to give that element front page
> >> focus? One can be sold on the idea of becoming a volunteer or to
> >> donate,
> >> without needing to read an arguement on the web page. Make a page
> >> that
> >> I can send someone to that I persuade to participate, and don't
> >> confuse
> >> them once they get there. Make it easy to identify our good cause,
> >> donate, participate, follow and comment. Blog/news has much less
> >> Return
> >> on Investment, than a real person sending someone to the site to
> >> donate
> >> or participate.
> >>
> >> Keep fighting the good fight.
> >>
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> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/780488
> >>
> >> Title:
> >> widgets should be moved from front page to blog index
> >>
> >> Status in Open Source Democracy Foundation:
> >> Opinion
> >>
> >> Bug description:
> >> The reddit and contact congress widgets should be moved off the
> >> homepage as it makes the page very busy. We may need to register a
> >> blueprint for the creation of the blog index.
> >>
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