<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Brian Kissel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bkissel@janrain.com">bkissel@janrain.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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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Are there any volunteers in the OpenID Community who are willing
to work with Global Inventures & Don Thibeau to help us review UV input and
update the OIDF website, respond to inquiries, etc? If so, please speak up.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div>This kind of work could be done within or under the marketing@ list... as part of a "rapid response" or "funnel and connect" program. I think part of the goal would be to reshape the organization to be better about responding to incoming feedback as well as content posted to the web generally about OpenID.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I would suggest that our presence beyond the boundaries of the mailing lists are very weak. We must do more to reach out to people where the conversations are happen and not presume that people will always come to us.</div>
<div><br></div><div>This should be a community/board partnership structured not unlike the early SpreadFirefox efforts.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">I still believe that UV is a great tool to capture community
feedback, but also agree with Chris that if we don’t have the resources to
address the inquiries and recommendations from folks who visit our website, we
should find a better way to capture and process that input so that we don’t appear
to be unresponsive. This is nothing against UV which I still think is a great
offering, its more about our ability to take actions based on input from our
site visitors.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div>I concur. I'm not so much worried about the tools as with the resources we have to measure and respond to the data they provide us.</div><div><br></div><div>I'd like to also see us use a tool like Cotweet to be able to watch and respond to conversations on Twitter about OpenID, or to bring in support questions from Twitter to, say, UserVoice for addressing.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Given all the energy that the OpenID community clearly has laying dormant, I think it's high time we figured out a strategy to capture and activate it in positive ways that help to grow, mature, and amplify the community.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Chris</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy">Cheers,</span></p>
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Brian</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy">___________</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/10/254" target="_blank">Brian Kissel</a></span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy">CEO, JanRain - </span></b><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#333399">WebID and Social Publishing
for User Engagement</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy">Email</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy">: <a href="mailto:bkissel@janrain.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:navy">bkissel@janrain.com</span></a>
<b>Cell</b>: 503.866.4424 <b>Fax</b>: 503.296.5502</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">
<a href="mailto:openid-board-bounces@lists.openid.net" target="_blank">openid-board-bounces@lists.openid.net</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:openid-board-bounces@lists.openid.net" target="_blank">openid-board-bounces@lists.openid.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Chris
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 03, 2009 10:47 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> OpenID Board (public)<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Richard White<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [OpenID board] Getting the most out of UserVoice.com</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I receive notifications from the OpenID UserVoice microsite
on a nearly daily basis (<a href="http://ideas.openid.net" target="_blank">http://ideas.openid.net</a>).<br clear="all">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Lately, most of the suggestions and bug reports are null,
made up of one or two words, or outright spam.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The legitimate requests and suggestions are few and far
between and not on the whole all that useful.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In the beginning, Brian Kissel heavily advocated for using
UserVoice to collect user opinions and ideas, and now the management of the
site has fallen entirely, it seems, to me.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'd like to propose that we either figure out how to
operational the data from this site or get Inventures to manage it for us and
then provide bi-weekly reports to the board about what people are looking for.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Considering that we just executed a survey of the board's
priorities and it was proposed that we do the same for the membership, it seems
that we're not only ignoring solutions that we already have in place to collect
this kind of information, but that we're already failing to use the information
that we already have.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Unless we can expand the parties within the foundation who
are receiving and able to act on this information, I suggest that we shut down
UserVoice in the beginning of the new year and find other ways to pool member
and public sentiment that we'll actually use.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Chris</p>
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