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Elevator pitch for my poetry app (not a startup/business): The Internet is encouraging more poets to write and share, but it is not helping them collaborate and

Elevator pitch for my poetry app (not a startup/business): The Internet is encouraging more poets to write and share, but it is not helping them collaborate and improve and most apps wall up an author's content. Clarity and conciseness. Hope I didn't violate my answer to the first one ;-) Of course, almost no one gives a toss about poetry anyway.

dgabriel 19y ago
Untrue! I give several tosses! I'm working on an integrated touring tool for spoken word poets. It will allow them to rate venues, add tour dates & locations, map their trip, easily find bus or plane tickets between destinations (here's a place where I could work in Wondrbar...), and publish their schedules to various social networking apps. I also want to add a booking mechanism for the people who run poetry venues, so they can connect with poets on tour. This is a labor of love. Google will not buy me, and I probably won't make any money.
- justindz 19y ago
  We're way off topic, so how's about you send me a link or something by email. I'm not very knowledgeable about spoken word, but if it's good for poetry I'm at least interested in seeing what you're planning/doing.
- joshwa 18y ago
  Seems like it would apply to lots of other fields than spoken word poets-- bands/performers/speakers of any stripe could use such a tool.
gm 19y ago
For some reason the word "collaborate" stopped me cold... it made the whole thing sound like some dilbert.com - generated mission statement. If I re-read your statement and use "work together" instead of collaborate then it sounded much better to me. For some reason... strange.
- justindz 19y ago
  I'm in Marketing, and I think it crept in. Sorry about that. One of the things that I think holds "internet" poets back is that they don't get together in groups and critique each other. Work together is a better condensation of that, so I'll take it :-)

dgabriel 19y ago

Untrue! I give several tosses! I'm working on an integrated touring tool for spoken word poets. It will allow them to rate venues, add tour dates & locations, map their trip, easily find bus or plane tickets between destinations (here's a place where I could work in Wondrbar...), and publish their schedules to various social networking apps. I also want to add a booking mechanism for the people who run poetry venues, so they can connect with poets on tour. This is a labor of love. Google will not buy me, and I probably won't make any money.

justindz 19y ago
We're way off topic, so how's about you send me a link or something by email. I'm not very knowledgeable about spoken word, but if it's good for poetry I'm at least interested in seeing what you're planning/doing.
joshwa 18y ago
Seems like it would apply to lots of other fields than spoken word poets-- bands/performers/speakers of any stripe could use such a tool.

gm 19y ago

For some reason the word "collaborate" stopped me cold... it made the whole thing sound like some dilbert.com - generated mission statement. If I re-read your statement and use "work together" instead of collaborate then it sounded much better to me. For some reason... strange.

justindz 19y ago
I'm in Marketing, and I think it crept in. Sorry about that. One of the things that I think holds "internet" poets back is that they don't get together in groups and critique each other. Work together is a better condensation of that, so I'll take it :-)