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

[Beach, James H]

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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