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

[Jason Kelly]

sure, sounded like everyone thought that was a good idea.

We need someone to make a design for the new logo.  Should just be the
current logo + "openwetware, share your science" underneath (see the
wikipedia logo for inspiration)

if anyone makes one up, send it out to the list.

Also, the "join OWW" could be as simple as a link in the toolbar, to
begin with. though a small image with join OWW might be good there
too.

thanks,
jason

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 12:32 PM, julius.lucks <julius.lucks at gmail.com> wrote:
> Aren't we going forward with a new icon with words on the upper left
>  and a 'join OWW' button too?
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>  On Apr 4, 2008, at 4:11 PM, Ilya Sytchev <ilyas at MIT.EDU> wrote:
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>  > 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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