On 3/1/07, Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We were just talking about this in IRC and I was advised (sarcastically) to > bring my idea forward on the mailing list. The UWN has stagnated and > frankly the form in which it was presented is an out-dated model. I want to > propose we move to a more "social" solution, that allows for more community > involvement. A forum post weekly would be sufficient, but I'm more in favor > of a blog-style solution. > > The benefits of the blog style solution are obvious: > > The news is delivered as it happens, in an editorial format that is > interesting to users. > Users are able to comment and give feed back on individual editorials > Users are able to add to the editorial themselves through a comment > solution. > RSS allows this "news letter" to be delivered directly to anyone who has > subscribed to it.I'm sure there are other benefits, but those are the > obvious. Potential cons include: > > Less professional quality of blog (If the editorial format is followed, it > will not look like a machine produced the blog, some see this as a plus) > infrequent posts > opinionated posts (If the editorial format is followed the individual author > would be allowed to present the news in a slightly more opinionated format, > however it's been shown that people like this kind of thing. It does have > it's downfalls though. > I feel that ideal sites for this would be wordpress or Blogger.com (blogger > may be easier to set up). What do you guys think?
We already have the fridge, so here is a possible idea: Break up the UWN into discrete bits Each bit would be like loco news, last weeks packages, etc. Each bit would be a seperate story on the fridge. This would mean each bit could be released on a specific day. Does that work? Corey -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
