[Marketing] [IAEP] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Welcome_to_the_Sugar_Labs_wiki

[Sean DALY]

Yes, I saw that last night already. Hopefully, it will stay that way,
but that's not certain since the wiki is very active and sites such as
OLPCNews and Laptop Mag
(http://blog.laptopmag.com/sugar-labs-new-version-of-sugar-learning-platform-is-netbook-and-pc-ready)
which picked up the release link directly to the download page.

The press page is also well indexed, and as the news release went
through PR Newswire the press contact info will be googlable for the
next few years at least :-)

By the way, this morning, Google search for "sugar learning" is #2, #3, and #4.

However, what I am really thrilled about is "Sugar on a Stick" where
we are #1, and 8 out of the top ten! beating out lollipops, crystals,
rock candy and swizzlers ;-)

And... the educators targeted mailing isn't even out yet, only the US
and FR journalists (275).

All that said, I'd do an Irish jig if I knew how to change this text
under the Google results link:
"Spin-off of the "Sugar" desktop environment to another project."

I object to both "Spin-off" and "desktop", I'd much rather read something like:
"Innovative learning software environment for children"

thanks

Sean


On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 15:31, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>> With the luck of St. Patty, we will be much better indexed by Google
>> tomorrow and thus able to go back to a single window ;-)
>
> Looks like that did it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tomeu
>
>> Sean
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
>>> Sean DALY wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I agree the integration between the static intro, the wiki, and a.sl.o
>>>> is clunky. We will be standardizing the navbar at the top of all three
>>>> sections when we can, as well as editing redundant content in the
>>>> wiki.
>>>>
>>>> Today, we will be welcoming a large number of first-time visitors and
>>>> they will very surely be disoriented if they start their visit by
>>>> clicking around on the wiki, which is a possible scenario since Google
>>>> indexes the wiki before the static intro (a flipflop from the behavior
>>>> over the past two weeks, but it turns out that Google was fooled when
>>>> showing www.sugarlabs.org in #1 position; they meant to show
>>>> wiki.sugarlabs.org). This is why it is absolutely vital that the front
>>>> door of the site be very easy to find. We are communicating with the
>>>> media on "www.sugarlabs.org" and hopefully today there will be lots of
>>>> external links to that address which will mitigate the importance of
>>>> supplying navigation to the homepage.
>>>>
>>>> It's true that graf in the wiki homepage needs to be fixed, it should
>>>> better say:
>>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>>> If you ever get lost, just click on "wiki" at the top of the screen.
>>>> To visit the main homepage of www.sugarlabs.org, click the logo in the
>>>> upper left corner.
>>>> </snip>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I agree the separate browser window is clunky too, but since for
>>>> first-time visitors the wiki and a.sl.o are easy to get to but hard to
>>>> get out of, it's much better the main homepage and introduction stay
>>>> available in another window.
>>>
>>> Ironically this is extremely bad for our one-window Sugar Browser. I would
>>> also vote to open it in the same window - not just for that reason (does not
>>> mean we have to change that today :).
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>   Simon
>>>
>>>
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