[Seattle-editorial] Promoting Features, work flow

[typist at speakeasy.net]

Kellan, That is exactly right, exactly what is needed.  Thanks for the teach-in on Saturday.  I think if the process can be simplified to a point and click at the article with an ease for extracting the hook language we want, we'll see a lot more features in the center column because it won't be such an awkward process to post. Another thing that is needed is the ability to attach a photo and adjust its size easily.

Thanks again,

Judy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kellan at protest.net [mailto:kellan at protest.net]
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 08:56 PM
> To: seattle-editorial at indymedia.org
> Subject: [Seattle-editorial] Promoting Features, work flow
> 
> The training on Saturday was useful to me, I hope it was useful to
> everyone else.  Among other things it brought home some of the
> difficulties of using Mir (which doesn't have the world's friendliest user
> expirence).  One immediate fix we made was to add the admin link to the
> top right corner of the page making it easier for people to login.
> 
> Something else I learned was a bit about how the editorial team would like
> to operate.  I had a vision in my head of people choosing stories from the
> newswire, fliping a switch, and having them show up in the center column.
> What I found out is that what people *actually* want to do is:
>   * find a strong story from the newswire
>   * excerpt the first paragraph or so, perhaps with minor edits
>   * link to the longer, original story for more info
> 
> (this is of course in addition to original content which gets written for
> center column)
> 
> Would the editorial team describe this an accurate description of their
> process?
> 
> Because we could probably make changes to facilitate that process if it
> was going to be how people worked, but I want to make sure I captured
> correctly people's work flow.
> 
> Thanks
> Kellan
> 
> 
> -- 
> "the truth is always revolutionary" [antonio gramsci]
> 
> kellan at protest.net
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