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

[julius.lucks]

Aren't we going forward with a new icon with words on the upper left  
and a 'join OWW' button too?

J

On Apr 4, 2008, at 4:11 PM, Ilya Sytchev <ilyas at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> 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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