<div>Tim, </div><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure it would be a good idea to combine the forum's live RSS feed with the news, announcements, planet, etc. since the forum feed will keep pushing the important news and announcements down. We can however do a "hot topics for the week" entry with links to the most active forum threads. Maybe we can do something like a 'The Week in Talk' article that we can add to the mash-up. I can tackle this weekly task if no one wants it.<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>As for "Active Talk Topics", is there some space left on the main page to show maybe the the 10 recent Talk posts? Maybe even on the right most column? If there's none, we can just have it shown on the main Talk page.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Tim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tim@samoff.com">tim@samoff.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Concerning the front page of <a href="http://maemo.org" target="_blank">maemo.org</a>, one of my suggestions during<br>
the IRC meeting yesterday was to "mashup" all of the news/planet/talk<br>
excerpts into a single _hot topics_ (or "Latest News" or whetever)<br>
area, so that all of the content was equal on the front page. Of<br>
course, each of these different types of content could be signified by<br>
an icon (or something)...<br>
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What is your opinion of this method? Or, is it important that<br>
news/etc be distinctly separated from the forum content?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Tim<br>
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:04:58 -0500, "Reggie Suplido" wrote: From<br>
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you lead the visitors to the forum/discussions pages. I've seen<br>
successful sites using Forum, Forums, Community, Discuss, etc., even<br>
just plain talk bubble icons with no labels. The way to encourage<br>
visitors to join the discussion is to have some sort of 'Active<br>
Topics' or "Hot Topics" somewhere on the main page and other<br>
important<br>
pages of the site. Once they see where the forum is, they know where<br>
to go next time.<br>
Btw, majority of first time visitors find the forum threads via<br>
Google.<br>
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</div><div class="Ih2E3d"> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:02:51 -0500, Ryan Abel wrote:<br>
> On Jan 14, 2009, at 9:00 AM, Dave Neary wrote:<br>
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>>> On Jan 14, 2009, at 8:36 AM, Dave Neary wrote:<br>
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>>>> Why the insistence on "Talk" (which anyone not currently on ITt<br>
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>>>> understand the meaning of) rather than "Forum" (which everyone<br>
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Concerning the front page of <a href="http://maemo.org" target="_blank">maemo.org</a>, one of my suggestions during the IR=<br>
C meeting yesterday was to &quot;mashup&quot; all of the news/planet/talk e=<br>
xcerpts into a single _hot topics_ (or &quot;Latest News&quot; or whetever)=<br>
area, so that all of the content was equal on the front page. Of course, e=<br>
ach of these different types of content could be signified by an icon (or s=<br>
omething)...<br>
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<p><br>
What is your opinion of this method? Or, is it important that news/etc be d=<br>
istinctly separated from the forum content?<br>
</p><br>
<p><br>
Thanks,<br>
</p><br>
<p><br>
Tim<br>
</p><br>
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On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:04:58 -0500, &quot;Reggie Suplido&quot; wrote:<br>
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ou lead the visitors to the forum/discussions pages. I've seen successful s=<br>
ites using Forum, Forums, Community, Discuss, etc., even just plain talk bu=<br>
bble icons with no labels. The way to encourage visitors to join the discus=<br>
sion is to have some sort of 'Active Topics' or &quot;Hot Topics&quot; some=<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d"> Btw, majority of first time visitors find the forum threads via Google.<br>
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&gt; On Jan 14, 2009, at 9:00 AM, Dave Neary wrote:<br /><br>
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&gt;&gt; Ryan Abel wrote:<br /><br>
&gt;&gt;<br /><br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; On Jan 14, 2009, at 8:36 AM, Dave Neary wrote:<br /><br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;<br /><br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; Why the insistence on &quot;Talk&quot; (which anyone not=<br>
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&gt;&gt;&gt; Because that is what was decided.<br /><br>
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&gt;&gt; I can understand that Internet Tablet Talk is to be renamed as<b=<br>
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&gt; Let's CC Reggie.<br /><br>
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