[OWW-SC] OWW User Feedback

[Bill F]

I just downloaded and installed a comment tag that may be of use.

To try it add the following tag to any OWW page:

<comment />

See what you think.

This is a starting point. Ican change the code to either send an email
message to a specific address or to add the comment to another page besides
the one the tag is located upon.

Thanks.


B.


On Jan 15, 2008 12:16 PM, Julius B. Lucks <julius at younglucks.com> wrote:

> Hey Mike,
> Good points. An email comment/suggestion box would already be a huge step
> forward, and might be the simplest thing to start off with.  We can always
> reply to individual emails, and we can gradually evolve the system into an
> email-based discussion board/list in the future.
>
> We can also start a wiki-based page, but given how unwieldily long
> discussions are on the wiki, this might not be the best, especially for a
> new user who is hesitant to edit the wiki.
>
> Of course, in the presence of no user-feedback on which one is best, we
> should do both!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Julius
>
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> On Jan 15, 2008, at 9:06 AM, M. Yee wrote:
>
>
> This is a great idea, but how we implement feedback should depend on what
> we expect out of it. Email might be the easiest way to go, but submitters
> would not necessarily be expecting a response--more of a comment or
> suggestion box in that case. If we're looking to start a discussion with
> the user, perhaps a thread similar to the "Help" page would be useful.
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Julius B. Lucks wrote:
>
> Hi SC,
>
> We really need some way for an average user to give feedback to the SC
> about
> how to make OWW better, how they currently use it, etc.  Outside of the
> survey, or someone finding the steering committee page on their own, there
> is
> really no mechanism to get general community feedback on how we are doing,
> and
> which direction we should take next.  I am hoping that as the SC blog is
> used
> more regularly, there will be useful comments on the posts, but I don't
> think
> that is enough.
>
> How about some sort of 'Feedback' link in the navigation bar?  That way it
> can
> be seen on every page so that people reaching OWW from Google for example
> can
> still give feedback.  The link ideally would point to some sort of
> discussion
> forum with topic threads etc., but for now should just bring up some page
> that
> a user could fill in to email feedback at openwetware.org for example (email
> being simpler for newer users than editing the wiki).
>
> What do you think?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Julius
>
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