4. - After some personal brainstorming, I realised that I have access to quite a wide group of potential adopters - I have not mentioned this previously because actions a better than words and I felt that however good I feel about that Foundation and its Projects, some further evolution was required prior to me extolling its virtues to a much wider, more sceptical audience - that time has all but arrived. getMarked is probably the tipping point in this.
6. - I believe it has been mentioned in this thread; a Bitmark Forum. Would this be a good way forward, clearly linked from this thread? bitmark.co/forum ? It could be much better organised into Topics, Subject Areas, Groups et al?
EDIT: This could perhaps address point 5. to a certain extent?
6. - I believe it has been mentioned in this thread; a Bitmark Forum. Would this be a good way forward, clearly linked from this thread? bitmark.co/forum ? It could be much better organised into Topics, Subject Areas, Groups et al?
EDIT: This could perhaps address point 5. to a certain extent?
4. That is what we need, not adopters but potential adopters, so that we can find out what they need and how they foresee themselves using what we create. If the first round of adoption is to be something like "as a way to move money between online services, with the option to move it to an account under solely my control" then we can focus there. The answer may also be "to easily send money abroad and pay people in other countries". We can provide all this and more, to have some focussed adoption paths provided by potential adopters will help us a great deal. Do you think that is a subject you could raise with one or two of them?
6. I agree. A traditional forum I do not feel to be effective, a new forum looks often empty and can doom it to stay that way.
Maybe we need something more like StackExchange, with specific topics and questions tagged and arranged, a clear view of unanswered topics, and the most active or currently being discussed displayed at the top.
4. I agree and, yes - those 2 examples will relate - and what these people will understand and appreciate is value add - in addition to potentially expanding the ways that blogs / articles / content engage the audience with interaction - FB, Twtr, Pin all do this but getMarked would be another very different arrow in the quiver, imo.
6. Yes, but I do not think a standalone Bitmark Foundation Forum would look empty for long! I set up a little PHP BB3 for just a peer and myself to discuss a proposed project a while back and it didn't look empty for more than a couple of days...
EDIT: In fact, with threads, subjects, announcements, stickies - i.e. thread headed 'Why Scrypt' with a sticky permapost with your succinct rationale would answer a thousand askers...
And of course - every post would have a getMarked button
