Editorial Board
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(10hrs) Editorial Board (Julia John)
Charter
The Editorial Board seeks to work with all AboutUs teams in order to efficiently & effectively message our mission to the public.
Scope
The following items are within our purview:
- Front Page
- Domain Pages
- The Skin
- The Mission for AboutUs, inc.
Who
We are a self-selected activist group seeking to monitor the above critical components of the business to ensure they are up to date & as accurate & compelling as possible.
Culture
We have decided:
- To respect each others' time by being on time to meetings
- To have a forward-looking, solutions-oriented focus
- To set the bar for effective meetings, communications, outcomes
- To limit the size of the group to six in order to be most effective
Discussion
- I changed the components of the page & made it an ongoing task. (Lots of ampersands–Kasey & Tak are gonna hate it!) Julia
Home Page
Comments from Marshall: Front page redesign:
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I'd recommend changing the front page text to "Currently, searching for domain names works best!" - I'm a little concerned about how much is above vs below the fold in the new design.
- that currently online number and the tiny number of registered users looks: a. unbelievable and b. suspect - why so little registration.
- Ted and Marshall changed this so the small number is gone 18:19, 29 November 2007 (PST)
- I'd rather see something real big like "With 5 million unique visitors each month, AboutUs is the leading wiki about webpages online."
Next Meeting
- 10-11am Friday the 14th
- John, Ted and Julia (if possible!) will be calling in
- 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
- Mark might join the meeting as well
Agenda:
- Given our new focus on daily output rather than projects that take a month what can we leave this meeting an implement?
- front page -
- do we want to agree to implement any of marshall's ideas?
- does the messaging need to change? lets do it!
- domain page - do we want to change the new page scaffold so the 20,000 new pages added each day get the new focus? Julia showed some ideas to Ted and they seemed ready to go - can we push them?
- The bot is lower priority compared to the ask for service - so Brandon wasn't wanting to talk about it right now. MarkDilley | talk
- The bot is lower priority compared to the ask for service - so Brandon wasn't wanting to talk about it right now. MarkDilley | talk
- front page -
- Getting Started
- Involving Mason
- Ideas for the Domain Page redesign
- Probe monthly newsletter concept ideas (per teams, site..)
- Ability to click into most popular categories from front page or in skin. These top (5, 10?) categories we'd obviously manicure.
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Transpose the stats on front page with the Weblog post and feature wiki page. The "new stuff" is below the fold, page risks looking static. - Revamp ContactUs messaging, so that is clear that you will be contacting AboutUs and not Example.com. Tougher than it sounds; ContactUs is a highly hit page.
- Search Bar at the top of the page.
- Kasey asked Vinh about it and he said it was easy. We should make a card about it to get it done. MarkDilley | talk
- Kasey asked Vinh about it and he said it was easy. We should make a card about it to get it done. MarkDilley | talk
- Random
- Feature User taken from the pool of ActiveCommunity, WikiGnomes, Staff? posted on DailyBuzz, DailyFun (both highly hit pages per stats), CommunityPortal or user's affiliated wikipage-
- Provide clear connection paths for users. How do they find eachother?
- Your item here
Resource Estimate
- Hours: 10
Evaluator
- Evaluator: Ray
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