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[Charlie Harvey]

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On 24/01/12 00:31, Alan Dawson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:35:08PM +0000, Adelayde Skidmore wrote:
>>
>> I believe the intention is that the new site proposal at
>> http://pxr5.hacktivista.net under the new guise of
>> www.techtoolsforactivism.org should link together all of the facilities
>> provided by those projects that have been directly involved in
>> hacktionlab, as well as detail alternatives of those that have not
>> (Riseup, Sin Dominio and Floss Manuals for example).
> 
> I was looking over the site, and wondered if the categories should be organised differently.
> 
> Rather than
> 
>     #1 Email
>     #2 Blogging
>     #3 Hosting
>     #4 Microblogging
>     #5 Education
>     #6 Outreach
> 
> 
> # Organising
>     - this would contain email, lists, crabgrass, unspeak, mumble
> # Publishing
>     - network23,indy.im, btm, catalyst
> # Learning
>     - ttfa book, flossmanuals, hacklabs 
> 
> too abstract ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Alan Dawson

Hi,

Well as I see it the main advantages are:

* Cuts down the number of tabs
* Helps non-techs identify the tool they need by what they are trying to
achieve rather than having already to know the tool.

It will most likely be a bit annoying for techs, and people who already
know that they want an email account or a blog. They will think "but I
want an email account, not organizing, learning or publishing".

If we changed them, I'd use the imperative mood (the bare infinitive
form of the verbs). By which I mean organize, publish, learn. Apparently
that works better for task-orientated navigation.

Cheers,

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