Community Checklist
Alright, I'm going to give this new Purple Include quote stuff a try.
I promise this is not "Let's blog about Robert Scoble day," but, I guess it is :)
I just saw a great post by Scoble about how the Google Reader team could have prepped the community better before releasing a controversial new feature. Using some great advice from Read/Write Web, he asks:
(The stuff above was grabbed using Purple Include; now if I could have just hidden this parenthetical aside using Stretch Text.... future project... BTW, if you are reading this in an RSS reader Purple Includes don't work in my feeds yet -- see Scoble's original post to view the list)
I really like the list that Scoble & Read/Write Web provide. In fact, I've turned it into a checklist of things I should make sure to try to do when working with the community around Gears when there is a significant new feature:
Disclaimer: As always, I speak for myself and not my employer, Google.
I promise this is not "Let's blog about Robert Scoble day," but, I guess it is :)
I just saw a great post by Scoble about how the Google Reader team could have prepped the community better before releasing a controversial new feature. Using some great advice from Read/Write Web, he asks:
(The stuff above was grabbed using Purple Include; now if I could have just hidden this parenthetical aside using Stretch Text.... future project... BTW, if you are reading this in an RSS reader Purple Includes don't work in my feeds yet -- see Scoble's original post to view the list)
I really like the list that Scoble & Read/Write Web provide. In fact, I've turned it into a checklist of things I should make sure to try to do when working with the community around Gears when there is a significant new feature:
- Did we show anyone at a conference the new feature?
- Did we do a video?
- Did we brief bloggers ahead of time and get their feedback?
- Did we show our #1 customer/user these features and get their feedback?
- Did we give an interview to a video journalist like Kara Swisher (or Robert Scoble) before release?
- If we are about to release, are we targeting Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday, versus other days?
- Do we have a demo to show off?
Disclaimer: As always, I speak for myself and not my employer, Google.
Comments
Did you show this feature to anyone at a conference?
Did you do a video?
did you brief bloggers ahead of time and get their feedback....
(The harder approach is to hack your particular CMS to produce its Atom/RSS feeds with the Purple Include stuff already filled out).