Hi Neil, I am absolutely not technical. I do think you have a point though. I also think that planning to use Tiddlywiki for the next 25 years, at least some of us will want to learn new tricks. Technical users finding, trying and keep using TW. Some of them will enter this group and they just might have goodies to share.
Birthe On Friday, January 2, 2015 3:58:23 PM UTC+1, Neil Griffin wrote: > > Yes, I think the question of who is the target user is an important one. > Most of the discussions I have seen on the forum and in the hangouts seem > to be aiming for promoting TW to an audience with relatively low technical > capability. I think this is a mistake both in terms of maximising the > audience and maximising the impact of Tiddlywiki. I would suggest that the > aim of marketing TW should be to maximise something like the following > product: > > > *size of audience trying TW (A) * probability of user sticking with TW (B) > * benefit received or impact achieved by user (C)* > Targetting a low-tech audience makes A very large, but B and C are likely > to be very low. I think a better result would be achieved by targetting a > smaller, but still substantial technically capable audience, for whom B and > C are much larger. In an ideal world, you would target everyone, but with > finite resources, it is better to go for the low hanging fruit. If I were > to try to promote it to people I know, I would start with my colleagues and > not my Mum. > > Neil. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
