[OWW-SC] OWW User Feedback

[Julius B. Lucks]

Hey Bill,

Would it be hard to make a link in the navigation bar that inserted  
the <comment/> tag into the page that the user was viewing?

Julius

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On Jan 15, 2008, at 10:33 AM, Bill F wrote:

> 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.
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>
> 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:
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>>
>> 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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