Looking forward to seeing you Thursday 6pm at PariSoMA for our DataPortability Bay Area meetup. PariSoMa, 1436 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. My mobile is +1-510-316-9773. http://www.meetup.com/DataPortability/calendar/14956231/.
We'll spend a little time recapping news from the data portability landscape then we'll spend an hour working on what we can do to improve the quality and adoption of the http://PortabilityPolicy.org ideas and practices and see where it leads us. I'm so glad the Communications team is starting up again. http://PortabilityPolicy.org was 18 months in the making but it needs your helping hand to bring it to market. Take two minutes to see it and then compare your impressions with mine. - Policy Wordsmithing. The language of the model policy hasn't been widely tested for readability, intelligibility, or memorability. As a whole it is burdened with jargon, vague language, and it fails to flow. - Persuasive Language. Ad copy, anyone? I'm not convinced to read the site, let alone do the exercise, and I'm one of the authors. - Visual Communication. Beyond aesthetic, we're sharing a boatload of complicated technical, practical, political, and emotional ideas. Illustrations, animations, photos, videos - I'd love to see folks bring the Portability Policy to life. - Social Design. The site is limp, lifeless and lonely. How can we use principles of social psychology and social software tools to achieve the site's goals and help visitors achieve theirs? - Policy Generator UX rethink. The generator is useful but it isn't complete. Where should it go? How can our site help people move from learning about a policy, to getting buy-in to do it, to the actual work of drafting a policy, to providing positive reinforcement for completing a policy project? - CoP. Ideally we'll want a community of practice (CoP) of the professionals who help sites draft, deploy and update portability policies and take some ownership of the future of the portability policy. What is the least we can do to seed a community in 2011? What else can we do quickly to bring our product along? - Phil Bring a friend Phil Wolff managing editor, Skype Journal http://SkypeJournal.com [email protected] skype:evanwolf +1-510-444-8234 San Francisco +1-510-316-9773 mobile http://www.linkedin.com/in/philwolff http://www.facebook.com/philwolff http://twitter.com/evanwolf http://dataportability.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DataPortability.Public.General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/dataportability-public?hl=en For additional information, please visit: http://www.dataportability.org/
