2008Qtr1StakeholderMeeting
15 April 2008 4:30pm (PDT/GMT-8)
Please join us at our U.S. offices:
- 107 SE Washington Street, Suite 520
- Portland, OR 97214
Some notes on our location:
- The best way to reach us is to enter the building through the Stark Street entrance.
- Go up a few stairs to the elevator and take it to the 5th floor.
- Once you reach the 5th floor, take a left out of the elevator and follow the hallway until you see us on the right.
- call 1-800-AboutUs if you get lost.
Other options for participating include:
- Join the Conference Call: The call is for listening only. To ask questions or make comments, please do so via IRC.
- dial in: +1 712.580.7700
- wait for message, then hit "2" to enter an access code
- access code: "22688 87#" (AboutUs)
- provided by: FreeConference.com
AND
There are two ways to access the IRC channel:
- via the webpage http://www.miccas.net/aboutus_irc/ or
- downloading an IRC client and joining server: irc.freenode.net & channel #AboutUs
Your participation is very much appreciated.
2008 stakeholder meetings
- Tuesday, April 15, 2008 4:30 pm
- Tuesday, July 15, 2008 4:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 4:30 pm
- Thursday, January 15th, 2009 4:30 pm
Agenda
- Overview of the past quarter
- The "Pitch"
- Feedback
- Overview of goals for the next quarter
- Questions and Answers
Meeting Recap
The meeting went well. Ray presented our "pitch" and solicited feed back from staff and investors. Comments included:
- Overall, folks were engaged and excited about the direction of AboutUs
- The traffic story is fantastic
- The ever-changing nature of the site is both distracting and exciting
- Suggestion for a more streamlined user interface
- Questions on plan for driving engagement
- Excitement around plan for injecting more data into the system.
- Questions about the importance of our revenue drivers, can we delineate sooner in the presentation.
- Article writing service is just as important as engagement generator as revenue stream.
- Good engagement from investors, asking good questions about traffic and what we would do with more money.
- Tie goals with investment asks clearer on presentation.
- Add more items!
The next day
Great conversation over lunch about the pros & cons of offering a "claim your domain" feature. No conclusions were reached but opinions abound. The best idea that emerged was a "care for this domain" feature that would allow for one (or more) custodian of the domain profile. Their picture & relationship to the domain would be part of the profile.
- Second best idea: Asking if the person wants to have an open edit domain box profile. if they say no, we lock it for x months.
