Comments on: Personal Telco, your 15 minutes of fame await… http://ournewmind.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/personal-telco-your-15-minutes-of-fame-await%e2%80%a6/ Collective consciousness in an Internet-enabled world. Sun, 23 Aug 2009 01:58:57 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Adam Shand http://ournewmind.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/personal-telco-your-15-minutes-of-fame-await%e2%80%a6/#comment-274 Adam Shand Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:09:31 +0000 http://ournewmind.wordpress.com/?p=81#comment-274 Hey Pete, Things are going good. I'm actually in LA at the moment working onset, I'm hoping I'll be able to make it up to PDX sometime soon and check out a PTP meeting and say hi to everybody. I miss PTP, it was good times :-) Adam. Hey Pete,

Things are going good. I’m actually in LA at the moment working onset, I’m hoping I’ll be able to make it up to PDX sometime soon and check out a PTP meeting and say hi to everybody.

I miss PTP, it was good times :-)

Adam.

]]> By: Pete Forsyth http://ournewmind.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/personal-telco-your-15-minutes-of-fame-await%e2%80%a6/#comment-267 Pete Forsyth Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:11:53 +0000 http://ournewmind.wordpress.com/?p=81#comment-267 OK, it's on the wiki now: http://www.personaltelco.net/draft%20front%20page OK, it’s on the wiki now: http://www.personaltelco.net/draft%20front%20page

]]> By: Pete Forsyth http://ournewmind.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/personal-telco-your-15-minutes-of-fame-await%e2%80%a6/#comment-266 Pete Forsyth Sat, 02 Aug 2008 07:53:29 +0000 http://ournewmind.wordpress.com/?p=81#comment-266 Excellent point, Michael. I'm going to get this on the wiki now, I may take a stab at addressing your concern -- but feel free to just make your own edits if I don't get it right. I'll follow up with Russell about getting my own house set up; I also have some thoughts about a couple specific businesses that might want to join in, and about honing the "pitch" to businesses as well, so I'll try to follow up with all that. Excellent point, Michael. I’m going to get this on the wiki now, I may take a stab at addressing your concern — but feel free to just make your own edits if I don’t get it right.

I’ll follow up with Russell about getting my own house set up; I also have some thoughts about a couple specific businesses that might want to join in, and about honing the “pitch” to businesses as well, so I’ll try to follow up with all that.

]]> By: Michael Weinberg http://ournewmind.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/personal-telco-your-15-minutes-of-fame-await%e2%80%a6/#comment-265 Michael Weinberg Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:50:56 +0000 http://ournewmind.wordpress.com/?p=81#comment-265 Hi Pete, I appreciate that you're putting effort into this. Improving our "hook" is something that should be an on-going effort, and the content on the frontpage of the site is certainly part of that. I look forward to seeing your work make it to our wiki. I do think, however, that an even bigger piece of our hook, is individuals standing up and sharing with their community that they are participants and encouraging their friends and family to join with us. Towards this end, I'd love to see you switch from thinking of PTP as "they" and start thinking of PTP "we." Part of the challenge we face--perhaps one of our largest branding challenges--is that so many people think of PTP as a finite group of people who are providing this free wifi, where really, PTP is largely a name that signifies a movement that everyone can and should be involved with. So, while helping us to hone the message we present to curious potential participants is great, becoming a participant and leading by example is probably the single best thing anyone can do for PTP and for more free wifi in Portland. Hi Pete,

I appreciate that you’re putting effort into this. Improving our “hook” is something that should be an on-going effort, and the content on the frontpage of the site is certainly part of that. I look forward to seeing your work make it to our wiki.

I do think, however, that an even bigger piece of our hook, is individuals standing up and sharing with their community that they are participants and encouraging their friends and family to join with us. Towards this end, I’d love to see you switch from thinking of PTP as “they” and start thinking of PTP “we.”

Part of the challenge we face–perhaps one of our largest branding challenges–is that so many people think of PTP as a finite group of people who are providing this free wifi, where really, PTP is largely a name that signifies a movement that everyone can and should be involved with. So, while helping us to hone the message we present to curious potential participants is great, becoming a participant and leading by example is probably the single best thing anyone can do for PTP and for more free wifi in Portland.

]]> By: Pete Forsyth http://ournewmind.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/personal-telco-your-15-minutes-of-fame-await%e2%80%a6/#comment-264 Pete Forsyth Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:07:58 +0000 http://ournewmind.wordpress.com/?p=81#comment-264 Jason and Amy, thanks. Yes, this will make it to wiki shortly, where y'all can just make your own edits without my interference..I'll try to do it later tonight, running out the door now though. Jason and Amy, thanks. Yes, this will make it to wiki shortly, where y’all can just make your own edits without my interference..I’ll try to do it later tonight, running out the door now though.

]]> By: Pete Forsyth http://ournewmind.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/personal-telco-your-15-minutes-of-fame-await%e2%80%a6/#comment-263 Pete Forsyth Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:06:33 +0000 http://ournewmind.wordpress.com/?p=81#comment-263 Howdy Adam, been a long time! How've ya been? Howdy Adam, been a long time! How’ve ya been?

]]> By: Adam Shand http://ournewmind.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/personal-telco-your-15-minutes-of-fame-await%e2%80%a6/#comment-262 Adam Shand Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:29:58 +0000 http://ournewmind.wordpress.com/?p=81#comment-262 Amazing work guys, I'm **so** incredibly pleased that PTP is still going strong. Thanks! Amazing work guys, I’m **so** incredibly pleased that PTP is still going strong.

Thanks!

]]> By: Amy Sample Ward http://ournewmind.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/personal-telco-your-15-minutes-of-fame-await%e2%80%a6/#comment-261 Amy Sample Ward Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:41:12 +0000 http://ournewmind.wordpress.com/?p=81#comment-261 I completely agree with Steven. I don't know if you already made the edits you mention or not...But I think that adding more/fleshing out the points Steven makes could really contribute to swaying people who are no's to maybe's and then maybe to yes, as the current language is more swaying people leaning yes to yes, you know? There needs to be acknowledgment of the issues the no people have and some of that can be covered by explaining the goal and the possible future (plus NO ADS!). Thanks for drafting it up, Pete! Once again, you're awesome! I completely agree with Steven. I don’t know if you already made the edits you mention or not…But I think that adding more/fleshing out the points Steven makes could really contribute to swaying people who are no’s to maybe’s and then maybe to yes, as the current language is more swaying people leaning yes to yes, you know? There needs to be acknowledgment of the issues the no people have and some of that can be covered by explaining the goal and the possible future (plus NO ADS!).

Thanks for drafting it up, Pete! Once again, you’re awesome!

]]> By: Jason McArthur http://ournewmind.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/personal-telco-your-15-minutes-of-fame-await%e2%80%a6/#comment-260 Jason McArthur Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:14:51 +0000 http://ournewmind.wordpress.com/?p=81#comment-260 Pete, Good ideas here. The website frontpage is not static anymore and everything has been moved to the wiki. Feel free to start a draft on the wiki so formatting, wording, etc., can be taken care of there. Thanks! Pete,

Good ideas here. The website frontpage is not static anymore and everything has been moved to the wiki. Feel free to start a draft on the wiki so formatting, wording, etc., can be taken care of there.

Thanks!

]]> By: Pete Forsyth http://ournewmind.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/personal-telco-your-15-minutes-of-fame-await%e2%80%a6/#comment-259 Pete Forsyth Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:52:30 +0000 http://ournewmind.wordpress.com/?p=81#comment-259 CaseOrganic, glad you like it! I should be clear though, the color scheme is just my blog's default…what I'm proposing here is just the text (and the idea of arranging it in columns as described, which I couldn't see an easy way to do here). Thanks for the feedback, Steven -- you're right, I should say something more explicitly about the "big picture." I'll make the edit. Also, I think it's probably a good idea to move this over to the PT wiki site soon...that way folks will be able to edit directly. I'll let you know. CaseOrganic, glad you like it! I should be clear though, the color scheme is just my blog’s default…what I’m proposing here is just the text (and the idea of arranging it in columns as described, which I couldn’t see an easy way to do here).

Thanks for the feedback, Steven — you’re right, I should say something more explicitly about the “big picture.” I’ll make the edit.

Also, I think it’s probably a good idea to move this over to the PT wiki site soon…that way folks will be able to edit directly. I’ll let you know.

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