[OWW-Discuss] Feedback form being used for individual contact

[Ilya Sytchev]

Perhaps but it won't solve a larger branding problem which I think is 
important for building an online community.  When a user ends up on a 
lab page via a search engine, they don't see any indication that there's 
anything beyond what they see (except for "OpenWetWare" in the page 
title and a tiny link "About OpenWetWare" at the bottom which are not 
very user-friendly).
Right now we have a bunch of islands/dead ends (labs, people, etc) that 
are not really connected to each other and to other things on OWW. 
Visit any successful social networking site and you'll see how 
everything is tied nicely together.

Ilya


Ricardo Vidal wrote:
> I agree. Change it to "Contact OWW" and things become crystal clear.
> 
> ~R
> 
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Lorrie LeJeune <moltogatti at gmail.com 
> <mailto:moltogatti at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Why not just change the link to say "Contact OpenWetWare"?
> 
>     --Lorrie
> 
> 
>     On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Ilya Sytchev <ilyas at mit.edu
>     <mailto:ilyas at mit.edu>> wrote:
> 
>         Sure but this points to a larger problem of insufficient
>         branding on the
>         site.  When people visit a particular page (usually from a Google
>         search) they have no idea that it is a part of a larger
>         community, so
>         they think that "Contact Us" link is directly related to the
>         content of
>         the wiki page they are viewing (for example:
>         http://openwetware.org/wiki/Maureen_Hoatlin).
> 
>         Ilya
> 
> 
>         Julius B. Lucks wrote:
>          > Maybe we should put something on the feedback system to let
>         people know:
>          > "Use this feedback page to tell us what you think about the
>         OpenWetWare
>          > website.  If you are trying to contact a specific user, try
>         looking on
>          > their [[Special:Listusers|User Page]] for their contact
>         information."
>          >
>          > Cheers,
>          >
>          > Julius
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