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* Seamless layout that allows one to go from wiki to blog '''without''' too much graphic difference. Try not to make it look like the users are leaving OWW when reading a blog. (Ex: http://wiki.shift.pt/doku.php ) | * Seamless layout that allows one to go from wiki to blog '''without''' too much graphic difference. Try not to make it look like the users are leaving OWW when reading a blog. (Ex: http://wiki.shift.pt/doku.php ) | ||
* [[OpenWetWare:Software/Ideas|Software ideas for blogs]] | * [[OpenWetWare:Software/Ideas|Software ideas for blogs]] | ||
===Brand Management Considerations=== | |||
The following list has been copied from [http://www.brandingstrategyinsider.com/2008/02/key-brand-manag.html Branding Strategy Insider] (my comments in italic) | |||
What are the most important considerations in brand management? | |||
* Deeply understand the target customer | |||
** ''This is a topic of discussion and related to the future "business model"'' | |||
* Promise one or two benefits that are unique, compelling and believable | |||
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* Capture your brand’s promise in a tagline or slogan | |||
* Aggressively build awareness | |||
* Deliver on the brand promise at each point of customer contact | |||
* Market to your employees first – turn them into brand champions | |||
* Present your brand’s identity accurately and consistently | |||
==Outreach== | ==Outreach== |
Revision as of 19:26, 9 March 2008
Misc projects
Assorted ideas/notes
- Hover notes thingy like Flickr (extension) - This would allow one to add notes to images without actually altering the original file.
- Seamless layout that allows one to go from wiki to blog without too much graphic difference. Try not to make it look like the users are leaving OWW when reading a blog. (Ex: http://wiki.shift.pt/doku.php )
- Software ideas for blogs
Brand Management Considerations
The following list has been copied from Branding Strategy Insider (my comments in italic) What are the most important considerations in brand management?
- Deeply understand the target customer
- This is a topic of discussion and related to the future "business model"
- Promise one or two benefits that are unique, compelling and believable
- Capture your brand’s promise in a tagline or slogan
- Aggressively build awareness
- Deliver on the brand promise at each point of customer contact
- Market to your employees first – turn them into brand champions
- Present your brand’s identity accurately and consistently
Outreach
- Interesting pages box - A section could be created on the homepage (or a community page) that calls the users attention to a specific useful and interesting page. There are dozens of links with interesting information that are not accessed regularly and could become great resources. Which ones you ask? Here's just a few:
- How to write a thesis proposal, How to publish a paper, Searching the literature;
- Communicating your results through Papers, Posters, Talks, Software for papers, posters and talks, Visualization or just Communicating science to the public;
- How to [a letter of recommendation]
- A small list of them could be compiled in a specialpage or tagged as "very interesting" and then displayed randomly to visitors of the site. I'm sure they'd become greatly used.
Organizing OWW
This is a list of steps that I consider essential to make OWW better organized and easier to use.
- A new set of tutorials for new/recent users. These tutorials should be step-based and when possible accompanied by screencasts (videos).
- Hierarchical pages - this is very important to keep the wiki organized. Many new users place their pages in the wrong place.
- Forms to kick-start pages. These forms can be implemented on a page-type basis. If creating a protocol page, the form would show fields for material, methods, notes, etc. These forms would only appear on first edit.
- Setup a page (community page, activity page, features page) that will concentrate featured and active pages on the wiki. This page depends on the creation of new functions/extensions that allow to create and follow such activity.
- Vote page up/down (à lá Digg)
- Lab Notebook Milestone marker (feature a project's status)
- Latest users & Map with location (this is easier if country and city are made compulsory on sign up)
- Focus on outreach by creating some plugins/widgets for blogs and other sites to display related OWW pages (ie Google Adsense). Also get a page together with all the buttons and banners available with code for easy insertion in html.
- Edit count top 10 (activity != interesting --> logs, order pages, etc)