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This is pretty cool. But after going to omnisio.com and reading the description, and even reading your description here, I'm not sure what it does. Does it just

by dcurtis 19y ago

This is pretty cool. But after going to omnisio.com and reading the description, and even reading your description here, I'm not sure what it does. Does it just show conference videos? Making a bold ambiguous comment like the site will "change the way people learn online," should have something backing that up. Will it change the way people learn online by showing informative videos? Still, well-designed site, and useful content.

ryan 19y ago
Thanks for the honest feedback. Yes my claim is very bold and ambiguous :) Conference videos are just the first niche we decided to focus on, but ultimately we will provide tools for representing a wide variety of information online, and corresponding tools for people to very easily create professional looking tutorials.
- chaostheory 19y ago
  hmmm so you're going up against 5min.com?
- dcurtis 19y ago
  Interesting. But still, what does it do? Can you summarize in a sentence without using abstractions?
bootload 19y ago
"... Community Next creates the premier events for entrepreneurs to socialize and educate ..." I found what it does but maybe the message in the wrong spot or too wordy? - sitename No - tagline not that I could find - about, yes but a bit vague So refine the message, Reduce the text. Eg: http://www.omnisio.com/images/about_us_blurb.gif http://www.omnisio.com/images/about_us_blurb.gif "... We will help 'everyday experts' of all levels of expertise to easily collaborate and publish their content online. ..." ~ http://www.omnisio.com/about http://www.omnisio.com/about Will it work? ... Yes because learning is open-ended. Is it focused enough and meet a need? Thats an ongoing problem. Nice work. See Greenspun for advice, hints ~ http://philip.greenspun.com/ http://philip.greenspun.com/
- ryan 19y ago
  Thanks for taking the time to provide feedback. I like your comments about making our message simpler and to the point, and will work on this.
  - bootload 19y ago
    "... I like your comments about making our message simpler and to the point ..." It's much easier to remove text and is something that an editor would probably suggest. I really like the idea you have ... demonstration through video - very effective. Reminds me a lot of say Google ( http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=genre%3Aeducational+software+google&docid=-3478907067117491758 http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=genre%3Aeducational+so... ) or Yahoos ( http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/ http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/ ) video collections on technology & software. I've got a question for you Ryan. When you decided to develop your app did you specifically try to be general in learning or focus in one specific area? The reason I ask is that the service can be made to cover all areas but at the risk of dilution in making what users want. The other extreme is you tailor you app to such a small market you don't get enough users. How did you make this decision?

by dcurtis 19y ago

ryan 19y ago

Thanks for the honest feedback. Yes my claim is very bold and ambiguous :) Conference videos are just the first niche we decided to focus on, but ultimately we will provide tools for representing a wide variety of information online, and corresponding tools for people to very easily create professional looking tutorials.

chaostheory 19y ago
hmmm so you're going up against 5min.com?
dcurtis 19y ago
Interesting. But still, what does it do? Can you summarize in a sentence without using abstractions?

bootload 19y ago

"... Community Next creates the premier events for entrepreneurs to socialize and educate ..." I found what it does but maybe the message in the wrong spot or too wordy? - sitename No - tagline not that I could find - about, yes but a bit vague So refine the message, Reduce the text. Eg: http://www.omnisio.com/images/about_us_blurb.gif http://www.omnisio.com/images/about_us_blurb.gif "... We will help 'everyday experts' of all levels of expertise to easily collaborate and publish their content online. ..." ~ http://www.omnisio.com/about http://www.omnisio.com/about Will it work? ... Yes because learning is open-ended. Is it focused enough and meet a need? Thats an ongoing problem. Nice work. See Greenspun for advice, hints ~ http://philip.greenspun.com/ http://philip.greenspun.com/

ryan 19y ago
Thanks for taking the time to provide feedback. I like your comments about making our message simpler and to the point, and will work on this.
- bootload 19y ago
  "... I like your comments about making our message simpler and to the point ..." It's much easier to remove text and is something that an editor would probably suggest. I really like the idea you have ... demonstration through video - very effective. Reminds me a lot of say Google ( http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=genre%3Aeducational+software+google&docid=-3478907067117491758 http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=genre%3Aeducational+so... ) or Yahoos ( http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/ http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/ ) video collections on technology & software. I've got a question for you Ryan. When you decided to develop your app did you specifically try to be general in learning or focus in one specific area? The reason I ask is that the service can be made to cover all areas but at the risk of dilution in making what users want. The other extreme is you tailor you app to such a small market you don't get enough users. How did you make this decision?