From #fedora-mktg: Robyn found a cool link! http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1007 - "Mad Libs" Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40% Basically, if sign-up dialogs looked less like this: name: _________ email: _________ username: _________ password: _________ And more like this: Hi, my name is ________ and my email is ________. I would like my username to be ________ and my password to be ______. ...people use 'em more. I wonder what opportunities we might have to quickly try this out with Fedora. fedora-tour immediately comes to mind, but that's not going to be ready for prime-time for a bit - so how about FAS? (https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/user/new) This might be a neat thing to bring up around Beta release when we're done with our deliverables (*knocks on wood*) and focusing on helping other teams get new contributors started during their crunch times. (Refer to the end of http://blog.melchua.com/2009/12/24/whats-marketing-doing-for-f13-anyway-a... - actually, I should probably turn that into a wiki page sometime.) --Mel

On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 14:06 -0500, Mel Chua wrote: > From #fedora-mktg: Robyn found a cool link! > > http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1007 - "Mad Libs" Style Form Increases > Conversion 25-40% > > Basically, if sign-up dialogs looked less like this: > > name:     _________ > email:    _________ > username: _________ > password: _________ > > And more like this: > > Hi, my name is ________ and my email is ________. I would like my > username to be ________ and my password to be ______. > > ...people use 'em more. > > I wonder what opportunities we might have to quickly try this out with > Fedora. fedora-tour immediately comes to mind, but that's not going to > be ready for prime-time for a bit - so how about FAS? > (https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/user/new) > > This might be a neat thing to bring up around Beta release when we're > done with our deliverables (*knocks on wood*) and focusing on helping > other teams get new contributors started during their crunch times. > (Refer to the end of > http://blog.melchua.com/2009/12/24/whats-marketing-doing-for-f13-anyway-a... > - actually, I should probably turn that into a wiki page sometime.) > > --Mel We could also make an introduction madlib, because I don't know about everyone else but I felt really uneasy about mine :) --threethirty -- marketing mailing list marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing

I wonder what opportunities we might have to quickly try this out with Fedora. fedora-tour immediately comes to mind, but that's not going to be ready for prime-time for a bit - so how about FAS? (https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/user/new)

On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 19:12 -0600, Ian Weller wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 02:06:09PM -0500, Mel Chua wrote: > > I wonder what opportunities we might have to quickly try this out with > > Fedora. fedora-tour immediately comes to mind, but that's not going to > > be ready for prime-time for a bit - so how about FAS? > > (https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/user/new) > > For web forms like this, I'd say this harms usability because... well, > it's kind of selfish, really. When I fill out a form with contact > information (oh hello, FAS), I don't really feel like reading, I just > want to get my information in the system in a hurry. I'm assuming it's > not just me. > > I love the idea for the group introduction bit, but I would strongly > recommend not applying this concept to FAS. It's more confusion than > what it's worth. > > -- > marketing mailing list > marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing I had an idea of working it all into one page that would start off with FAS, subscribe you to the mailinglist, post your intro and then drop you off at the wiki to so that you could create a userpage. Would it be less of an issue for you if this became a one stop joining process. How about a link to do it the old way at the top? Just trying to keep the ball rolling I dont think we need to decide where it stops yet :) --three -- marketing mailing list marketing(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing