- Fri Oct 03, 2003 11:05 pm
#3245
I have been wondering how more people could be encouraged to use this highly valuable resource that is the Creativity Pool website? Here are two suggestions.
First, how about creating a low-megabyte text-only archive of all the ideas (in the order in which they were submitted). Not simply the titles but the whole ideas. Either without any links, or with one link only for each idea (to its main position on the site). The purpose of this archive would be to allow people to quickly and efficiently browse through the entire collection of ideas. The present flotilla of links that accompanies each idea on the site is great, but it does mean that it is really not practical for people with slow internet connections and download limits to look at more than a small number of pages of ideas in a session. Being text only, each page of the archive could be quite long, perhaps with an ad or two at the top, and we could use our back buttons to get back to the rest of the site whenever we wanted.
Second, an idea that I am sure many people including the webmaster have already considered. How about a section that highlights some of the best ideas that have been submitted to Creativity Pool (regardless of when they were submitted or what categories they are in). Not the hottest ideas, but ideas judged by the webmaster and members to be those most likely to improve the lives of humans in some way, those most likely to become successful products if implemented, and the most innovative ideas, etc. One purpose of this section would be to enable members and visitors to quickly find and read a collection of the best ideas on the site, and another purpose would be to keep some of the best ideas in the spotlight, so they don’t fade into the dusty and everdarkening past. A variation on this idea would be to highlight say five ideas for a month, and then the next month highlight a different five.
To assist the webmaster in deciding which ideas to include, he or she could invite members of Creativity Pool to nominate any ideas currently on Creativity Pool they consider should be in this section.
Reward: A virtual tummy-tickle.
First, how about creating a low-megabyte text-only archive of all the ideas (in the order in which they were submitted). Not simply the titles but the whole ideas. Either without any links, or with one link only for each idea (to its main position on the site). The purpose of this archive would be to allow people to quickly and efficiently browse through the entire collection of ideas. The present flotilla of links that accompanies each idea on the site is great, but it does mean that it is really not practical for people with slow internet connections and download limits to look at more than a small number of pages of ideas in a session. Being text only, each page of the archive could be quite long, perhaps with an ad or two at the top, and we could use our back buttons to get back to the rest of the site whenever we wanted.
Second, an idea that I am sure many people including the webmaster have already considered. How about a section that highlights some of the best ideas that have been submitted to Creativity Pool (regardless of when they were submitted or what categories they are in). Not the hottest ideas, but ideas judged by the webmaster and members to be those most likely to improve the lives of humans in some way, those most likely to become successful products if implemented, and the most innovative ideas, etc. One purpose of this section would be to enable members and visitors to quickly find and read a collection of the best ideas on the site, and another purpose would be to keep some of the best ideas in the spotlight, so they don’t fade into the dusty and everdarkening past. A variation on this idea would be to highlight say five ideas for a month, and then the next month highlight a different five.
To assist the webmaster in deciding which ideas to include, he or she could invite members of Creativity Pool to nominate any ideas currently on Creativity Pool they consider should be in this section.
Reward: A virtual tummy-tickle.