InfluenceUs dev task
What (summary)
The InfluenceUs task creates a wizard to InviteParticipation.
The InfluenceUs wizard provides highly motivated visitors to our site with a fun, easy, and effective way of engaging and influencing the organization they are delighted or frustrated with.
There is a substantial creative design component to this task. It will be important to socialize ideas before too much investment goes into any particular choice. Low fidelity by-hand drawings can supplement in person conversation and can be scanned for review on IRC. Here is an example where sketches have served this purpose.
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Why this is important
Some of the most motivated visitors we attract are folks who are delighted or frustrated with the organization behind the domain page they land on.
- Engagement: Makes a clear call to action for these motivated visitors.
- BeABuilder: Encourages the kind of constructive collaboration we want where all involved parties benefit.
- ValuableContent: Creates public conversations that deeply inform future visitors about how organizations relate with those they touch.
- ViralSpiral: The influenced become influencers the next time they are frustrated with an organization.
DoneDone
- NeedsInput.com is fleshed out to serve as an example for this task.
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Newly created DomainPages include the InfluenceUs wizard. - The InfluenceUs wizard looks great (according to Vinh).
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The InfluenceUs wizard feels great to use. (Perhaps uses Ajaxy techniques so that no page reloads have to occur) - The path for a non-logged in user (at the start) feels great to Tak.
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The wizard is invoked by clicking something like "Click here to influence Example.Org" -
There are branching story lines for "DelightedWith" and "FrustratedWith" -
Final submission creates a "pending edit" to the page that when consummated looks just like any other edit (but is really transcluded from the person's MemberPage). -
Includes a nice edit summary of what it just did - Before a "pending edit" is fully consummated, the user must log in with a valid e-mail address (so that the edit can be added to their page and transcluded into the domain page).
- The new user should also be encouraged to improve their user page so that the organization knows they are a real person.
- Every time a constructive edit is made to that page, both the organization and the user are notified via email (this of course includes the initiating edit).
Steps to get to DoneDone
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Write the html for the influenceus form. - Make a InfluenceUs javascript class.
- Add functions in the class for login and register.
InfluenceUs Page flow
- A user who visits NeedInput.com sees the big "Influence Us Wizard ... blah blah" bit
- When they click on it they are presented with two choices (without a page reload) for frustrated or delighted
- When they click on frustrated they are presented with a yes/no question "Do you know what you want to be different?"
- NO ... sorry, we can't yet handle your complaint yet ... if you'd like to leave a message for the developers type in a comment and click save
- YES ... Do you believe that making the change is in the best interests of backpack.com and you alike?
LocalSettings
require_once("extensions/InfluenceUs/InfluenceUs.php");
$enableInfluenceUs = true; // enable/disable influence
$addInfluenceUsTagInDomain = true; // enable/disable adding influenceus tag by default to newly created pages
Opportunities
A user that doesn't yet have a login loses their work once they are finished creating their new account.
- use cookies to store the intermediate results of the form submission instead of url hacking
- key the cookies by the name of the domain page
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when they come back to the page, automatically populate the form with their partial results -
Use ajax to include login or create an account as a step within the flow of the wizard
The InfluenceUs button is enigmatic
- Add an evocative and informative tooltip that appears on hover over the button.
- explains the purpose of the button
- describes what the tool does for you
- creates a call to action for the next step after they're done with the tool
- Use this button to leave feedback for NeedsInput.com. This tool will help you create a constructive contribution. Then add this page to your watchlist to participate in the conversation that might ensue.
Informatively dense edit summaries
- Treat the edit summaries as one of the most valuable parts of the initiated communication
- The InfluenceUs Log edit should prepend the line "# 2007.10.10 at 12:34 Brandon CS Sanders Added a delighted comment to NeedsInput.com - 'They make collective action really easy. They...'"
- The InfluenceUs Log edit summary should be "Added a delighted comment to NeedsInput.com - 'They make collective action really easy. They...'"
- the comment is summarized by arbitrarily truncating it immediately after the word that takes the length beyond 45 characters
- the elipsis (...) is added to indicate that there is more
- the entire text is turned into a link so that someone who is processing the log or revisions can click to read more
Better Comments
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Move the comment to a different location, tweak the presentation of the comment, and add informative edit summaries-
Comment is under user talk namespace for example User_talk:Brandon_CS_Sanders/NeedsInput.com -
Comment text is formatted exactly like this example -
Domain page where the influence is added is formatted exactly like this example -
Edit summaries are information (like in the previous example)
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Needs Attention
- These pages should all be informative, visually pleasing, and closely coupled with the InfluenceUs tool
Discussion
No lead? TedErnst | talk 09:10, 29 October 2007 (PDT)