On 8/28/05, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:aaron@...749...">aaron@...749...</a></b> &lt;<a href="mailto:aaron@...749...">aaron@...980...49...</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
All this talk about website redesign and reorganization makes me wonder.<br>On many commercial websites I see a &quot;For the Press&quot; section. Should<br>inkscape have one of those?<br><br>
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When I read this, I thought of this: <a href="http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20010401.html">http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20010401.html</a>,<br>
now the page is old, and not everyone feels that Nielson's opinions are<br>
universally applicable (thougn I agree with pretty much all that he has <br>
written).<br>
<br>
We should surely take notice of these points:<br>
<br>
The top-five <strong>reasons journalists gave for visiting a company's website</strong> were to
<ul>
<li>find a PR contact (name and telephone number),
</li><li>check basic facts about the company (spelling of an executive's name, his/her age, headquarters location, etc.),
</li><li>discover the company's own spin on events,
</li><li>check financial information, and
</li><li>download images to use as illustrations in stories.
</li>
</ul>
Now it may be a little while before inkscape is involved in events needing<br>
to be spun and/or have financial information to reveal or conceal, but<br>
I would suggest that there would be a definite beneift from this information being available on a designated &quot;press Pack&quot; page<br>
<br>
Ben<br>
<br>