Welcome

Welcome to the SolonDeer work site.  This site is not indexed by Google but it isn't secured yet, so sensitive material still needs to be sent via email.  Do make a comment on the appropriate post that there is sensitive material sent as email.  Also make a comment for posts that have file attachments.

Start by selecting a Label on the sidebar to see all posts within a category.

1. First Click the "Help" Label for an introduction to the web services
2. Start with the "Hot" and "WebNow" Labels.
3. Next Click the "Active" Label to see items requiring work.

Ideally active contributors can be given update access, this wold require a Google Account (either your own Gmail account or your email account registered to Google).

This working blog contains a post for each idea.  Anyone may comment on a post.  Registered users can add new posts and edit their own posts.  Contributors can read a post and offer suggestions as a comment.

The goal is to take the idea of the post and make it suitable for publishing (except Strategy & Tech labels which are for internal use).  Given our target audience we'll want to organize info in the following way, write a sentence or two to describe the main point, this will be on the main site, write a paragraph or two that will be displayed on the blog, the rest of the content may be below the summary after a "More... bar".  The site admin will put these parts in the right place.

If you are doing a major rewrite of a post, comment to it that you are working on it, make a new post, on the bottom by Labels, click "Show all", click "Active", an appropriate category, and an appropriate VerDraft status.  As you edit, others may comment on it.  When you are done, select the label "VerFinal" so I can notice it.  When I move it to the public site, I'll remove the Labels and replace it with "VerArchive".

Recent Changes

• Blog is now listed as "Articles"
• CommentsBlog renamed to NewsBlog
• Most News moved to NewsBlog

Tech Help

Here's the basic structure:

1. Main Site - https://sites.google.com/site/solondeer/home
   The first stop for the public
   
2. Blog - http://solondeer.blogspot.com/
   More detailed info
   
3. NewsBlog - http://solondeernews.blogspot.com/
   News, Letters to the Editor, etc.
   
4. Private Working Blog - http://solondeerprivwork.blogspot.com/
   A staging area for ideas, from rough draft to final
5. solondeer@gmail.com is forwarded to solondeer googlegroups which can be subscribed to by any contributor
   

Currently our working web site is not secured, when the city catches on, I will turn off "Anyone Viewing" and require a login.  I will invite you as a contributor to the working blog.

Take a look at Work Blog Label Help to see an introduction.

Take a look at Work Blog Label Tech to see descriptions to the Technical Structure of this group of web services.

The Work Blog contains 90+ ideas...  What's suitable for the web is different than what's suitable as written info.  There's also the Audience issue, much of this is written by Animal Activists and our target is the apathetic uninformed average Joe voter.  I see our goal as breaking this info into a hierarchy, major point, summary, and full detail.  Our target audience may not want to read a lot, so the Main site has to be easy major points.

See Labels WebNow , Hot , and Active for items that need work.

Feel free to comment on any post or to add a new post if you have a completely new topic or issue on the work blog.

Post any technical comments here.

General Help

What kinds of trouble do you have with the web services?

Have you found a better way to explain the various services?

Add your comments to this post...

Thanks...

Audience

We have the following audiences:

1. Animal Rights Activists
2. Animal lovers upset by killing
3. Average person who doesn't care about animals
4. People who believe "something must be done" and aren't aware of non-lethal alternatives
5. Hunters

Groups 1 and 2 don't need to be convinced, group 5 will never be convinced, so out true target audience are groups 3 and 4 who represent the average apathetic voter.

The audience can access the data in a hierarchy, several sentences on a Main Site page points to a several paragraph abstract on the public blog that has a "read more..." separator where multiple pages can be displayed.

We should keep content on the Main site within 2 screens per page so the average person doesn't get bored and just go along with the city.

At the bottom of every article people can comment, or they can view related articles by clicking a Label, or they can return to the main site.

Arguments that work on the first two audiences won't work on the next two audiences.

Labels Defined

Copy public list?  There needs to be some correlation with the Article Site Blog labels, but this site will have more Labels to categorize issues that are not for the public.

Clicking on the Label on the sidebar will subset the posts down to the specific category.

Working Issues

• Active - All issues being worked on, items needing discussion, strategy, but not really content destined for a public site (as ActiveArticle).
  Specifically excludes Labels - Ann, Help, Tech, and VerArchive
  Tag new posts with Active, when post content is complete, Active Label will be removed and VerArchive will be added
• ActiveArticle - All web content being worked on, as active, but items needing editing for publication.
• Ann - Announcement to working group
• Help - Help Info
• Tech - Technical Web details
  
• NewsBlog - News, Letters, Editorials, or Comments for the News Blog
• Hot - Hot / Time sensitive Issue
• Link - Info on URL Links to other sites
• Strategy - How we are going to handle an issue (vs the content)
• Web - General content for the web
• WebNow - High priority web content (from ActiveArticle)
• UnCat - Uncategorized, use if you are uncertain how to categorize, I'll periodically review these labels and find an appropriate Label.

Content Categories

• DVA - Deer Vehicle Accidents
• Garden - Issues related to deer damage to gardens or understory
• Hunting - specifically related to bow hunting
• Lethal - general all lethal issues
• News - News accounts
• Non-Lethal
• Research - Detailed research papers
• Video - Videos

Draft Version Status

• VerRough 
• VerFirst
• VerSecond
• VerFinal
• VerArchive - No longer requires action, Active/ActiveArticle Label removed
• VerUpdate - Designates that the post has been updated