User:Ricardo Vidal/workshed

Misc projects

• Tutorials
  • Screencasts
• Graphic stuff

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 grey) 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
  • This would most probably the benefit of timestamped edits and future publishing of protocols
• Capture your brand’s promise in a tagline or slogan
  • The slogan: Share Your Science, is pretty much what we are trying to do.
• Aggressively build awareness
  • This should/must be achieved through intensive networking, which includes blogging
• Deliver on the brand promise at each point of customer contact
  • Quite sure this means that we must deliver what we set out to initially
• Market to your employees first – turn them into brand champions
  • This is already done with the steering committee, right?
• Present your brand’s identity accurately and consistently
  • This is important!

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)