[seek-web] [Fwd: Re: SEEK wiki page]

[Matt Jones]

Hi Jim,

Yes, Laura is on this list.

Matt

Beach, James H wrote:
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> Is our new usability person on this list?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: seek-web-admin at ecoinformatics.org
> [mailto:seek-web-admin at ecoinformatics.org] On Behalf Of Bertram
> Ludaescher
> Sent: 24 October, 2004 10:02 AM
> To: Matt Jones
> Cc: Steve Tekell; seek-web at ecoinformatics.org; Bertram Ludaescher
> Subject: Re: [seek-web] [Fwd: Re: SEEK wiki page]
> 
> 
>>>>>>"MJ" == Matt Jones <jones at nceas.ucsb.edu> writes:
>>>
>>>#9 and #10: regarding the naming Community section formerly know as 
>>>Contributors and the subsection of Intranet/Team Communities and 
>>>related
>>>organization:
>>>
>>>We went around and around on this issue before and never found a 
>>>clear winner.  At this point, my question is can people find what 
>>>they are looking for?  If so, then there's no point in making any 
>>>changes.  If not, what would be better and why?
> 
> 
> Hi Steve: 
> 
> I understand the difficulties in getting those right. BTW: I think the
> SEEK web site is generally very well organized! 
> 
> As for the Community item: people do NOT associate the "developers
> stuff" with "Community". 
> 
> I think we should have a "Developers Corner" or something like it that
> points to IRC, CVS stuff..
> 
> So how about "Developers Corner" (or similar) and move some stuff from
> Community there? When I hear Community I would think of "mailing lists"
> and pointers to other (non-SEEK) groups of the same
> (ecoinformatics) community or even related cyberinfrastructure community
> (eg GEON)
> 
> 
>>>Regarding the meaning of "Community", well looking to the Simpsons we
> 
> 
>>>learn from some TeleCom MegaCorp PR woman "Communications" + "Unity" 
>>>= "Community"
>>>
>>>Mostly it just seemed like a better alternative to "Contributors" and
> 
> 
>>>not too long to fit in the Nav panel.  Nothing we came up with at the
> 
> 
>>>time sounded great.  Which is why the home page has stuff like this:
>>>http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/Wiki.jsp?page=WelcomeToSEEK#section-We
>>>lcomeTo
>>>SEEK-OnThisSite
>>>To explain it and all the other sections a bit better with more than 
>>>one word.
> 
> 
> visitors of a web site don't read instructions (*we* as SEEK might, but
> other visitors won't). We should try and choose names that have the
> intended associations right away..
> 
> 
> cheers
> 
> Bertram
> 
> 
> 
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