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Potentially suffers from Yet Another Web App (YAWA) syndrome.
First, let me say that I think this app is great. It's a great idea but it suffers potentially from Yet Another Web App syndrome.
Unless you do some type of deal with certain speaker series where they tell all the attendees to go rate on speakerrate, I don't know how you're going to grab people's mind share.
How would you see someone coming back to this? Would they leave it as a tab open in their browser so that whenever they went to a conference, it'd just be there? Would people just have to remember?
I'm not just saying this because I work for a company that's in the widget space but... if you did some type of widget that I could put on my iGoogle page or Dashboard, it'd be something that didn't take up a whole lot of my brain space but that I could easily pull out of my toolbox when I needed it and rate speakers right from the widget.
Also... as part of a distribution strategy, I could totally see folks that speak a lot putting some type of widget on their blog that lists their speaking engagements and ask folks to rate them.
Unless you do some type of deal with certain speaker series where they tell all the attendees to go rate on speakerrate, I don't know how you're going to grab people's mind share.
How would you see someone coming back to this? Would they leave it as a tab open in their browser so that whenever they went to a conference, it'd just be there? Would people just have to remember?
I'm not just saying this because I work for a company that's in the widget space but... if you did some type of widget that I could put on my iGoogle page or Dashboard, it'd be something that didn't take up a whole lot of my brain space but that I could easily pull out of my toolbox when I needed it and rate speakers right from the widget.
Also... as part of a distribution strategy, I could totally see folks that speak a lot putting some type of widget on their blog that lists their speaking engagements and ask folks to rate them.
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Inappropriate?Hi Justin,
To answer your question about coming back to the site, we have envisioned that speakers could provide a SpeakerRate link along with their contact information on the last slide of a presentation. I agree with you that this would probably work best in the context of a series of talks, or at a large conference/event with several different speakers.
That doesn't entirely solve the problem of coming back after that big event, though. To that end, I really like the widget ideas, and I'll talk to the development team about them.
Thanks so much for taking the time to provide this feedback!
Carolyn
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