Comments on: Default All things LIS category

By: Elin Waagen

Elin Waagen — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:32:06 +0000

“The Essentials” it is!

I too like the idea if the tagline “Bringing Knowledge to You” or “We Bring Knowledge to You” – helps define this category.

The LIS mission statement reads: We bring knowledge to you. We help you explore, use and contribute to it as you engage the world.

I also like the idea of a symbol character to highlight this category.

By: James Beauchemin

James Beauchemin — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:25:29 +0000

I vote for “The Essentials” This seems to convey what we want. -jim

By: Doreen Bernier

Doreen Bernier — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:56:04 +0000

I also liked the Essentials

By: Ian McBride

Ian McBride — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:20:57 +0000

Thirding Jess’s idea of using “Bringing knowledge to you” as a cross-LIS tagline. This also addresses one of the sections in our recommendations: “Every page should have a unifying graphic element (eg, a logo) to make it clear to the user who has arrived via search that they are on a Midd-LIS page.”

Whether we use a logo or just plain text, it should use this phrase. And maybe by displaying it so prominently we won’t feel the urge to come up with a new organizational vision statement every year.

By: Elin

Elin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:53:35 +0000

My vote is for Good to Know
I think it’s intuitve and allows the user – whether external or internal – to choose to be in the know. Also allows the blog poster an easy choice.

By: Elizabeth Whitaker-Freitas

Elizabeth Whitaker-Freitas — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:53:19 +0000

I second Jess’s idea.

*The Essentials
Tagline: Bringing knowledge to you

By: Carrie Macfarlane

Carrie Macfarlane — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:46:40 +0000

*The Essentials

By: Jess Isler

Jess Isler — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:11:36 +0000

*The Essentials

[Separate idea: Can we make "Bringing knowledge to you" the Tagline (subtitle) for our one blog? Should we make it the tagline for all of the major landing pages?]

By: Barbara Merz

Barbara Merz — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:33:01 +0000

*Bringing Knowledge to You

By: Ian McBride

Ian McBride — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:10:36 +0000

Sorry that I was not able to make today’s meeting. I actually don’t have a particularly good excuse. I was working on something for tomorrow morning’s presentation in Twilight Auditorium at 10:30 (which I HIGHLY recommend you all attend if able) and got so engrossed in it that by the time I realized what was going on it was 11:50. I figured that barging in over halfway through would be more distracting than being absent.

Of these choices, my vote is for “The Essentials”, since I think it speaks broadly to the type of content we’re trying to deliver in this way and gives an indication of why someone might choose it. “Oh, my post is essential. Cool!”

I did discuss this a bit with the broader White Whale group at lunch yesterday. Their suggestion was to just use a symbol like, ★, to indicate this. I though that was a bit too vague. Also, you’ve closed the poll for additional suggestions and I respect that. However, I do think it would be neat if we put this character next to the name we decide on. So the category would be “★ The Essentials” or “★ Bringing Knowledge to You”, just as an additional way of showing off this category. I tested this out and you can use symbol characters like that in WordPress.