[Imc-alternatives] DESIGN: wireframing summary

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Also, regardless of what we choose there will always be someone(s) who
don't know what the open-publishing concept is or how to do it. So,
perhaps a top menu tab called "Help" would be good for getting people
familiar with unfamiliar components. Also, "Edit/ or Tools" for people
with admin, super users, registered users, etc. might also be something to
consider. Or, simply "Post your Article Here" ?

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> Strypey,
>
> I like the idea of "Act" rather than "Publish!"  We've been trying to
> come up with a better word than Publish.  "Contribute" seems pretty
> clunky....  Clicking on Act/Publish/Contribute would enable you to
> publish news to the newswire, post an article to the knowledge-base
> or join the networking section, and maybe more.
>
> Jay
>
> At 5/23/2008, Danyl Strype wrote:
>>Kia ora koutou
>>
>>Thanks so much to all of you for putting in all this work. It's so
>>exciting to see the vision we've been patiently watering for so long
>>start to push up shoots! Thanks to Jay for the concise summary,
>>everything makes a lot of sense as you've presented it. I especially
>>like the idea of having a trunk and branches of editor-determined
>>taxonomy with further branches of folksonomy determined by user tagging.
>>
>>I like the idea of having a huge Publish button in our design too. I
>>really loved the huge Publish buttons when they first started
>>appearing on some Indymedia sites and Aotearoa IMC adopted this
>>convention from day one. They emphasized what made Indys different
>>from most other sites of the time - that the sites were as much about
>>users contributing as they were about users reading.
>>
>>However, it does get me to thinking, what makes the alternatives site
>>different from most other sites now? It isn't connecting or media
>>sharing, as the social networking and YouTube/ Flickr-style hosting
>>sites have thoroughly mainstreamed that.
>>
>>The central difference to me is that the site specifically aims to
>>change not only what happens in cyberspace, but what happens in the
>>social and biological world outside the internet. We want the
>>information it aggregates, and the networks it facilitates, to change
>>the way people *act* - to inform the decisions they made as
>>individuals, and open new possibilities for organizing with others to
>>meet their needs (from water and food, right up to self-realization).
>>So let's say we had an 'Act' button as part of the navigation - what
>>would it link to?
>>
>>Just some scattershot thoughts as I bounce around the country. Keep up
>>the great work everyone.
>>
>>Love and Rage
>>Strypes
>>
>>Quoting Jay <jay at fundamentalchange.net>:
>>
>> > Hi imc-alternatives,
>> >
>> > Over the last few weeks Nick, Michael and I have been working really
>> > hard to develop wireframes for the alternatives site.  (what are
>> > wireframes? http://www.grokdotcom.com/wireframing.htm).  In the
>> > process we've been talking through a lot of basic questions about how
>> > the site will work and how people will use it.  At the last IRC
>> > meeting I volunteered to write a summary of our discussions.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>"A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular."
>>- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr
>>
>>"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter
>> and
>>those who matter don't mind."
>>- Dr Suess
>>
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