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codeforamerica / cityvoice

A place-based call-in system for gathering and sharing community feedback
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"What is CityVoice?": one-liner + overview #195

Open daguar opened 10 years ago

daguar commented 10 years ago

Ideally, for people coming to the project we'd have:

  1. A one-liner describing what CityVoice lets you do
  2. A brief overview that gives someone a sense of what CityVoice is useful for, what it does/doesn't do, and what they'll need to do to use it — ideally in 30 seconds to a minute

Here's my first stab at a one-liner:

CityVoice lets you collect location-based feedback from community members via the telephone and organizes this feedback in a user-friendly web interface.

Note I'm framing it as "what capabilities do you get" rather than "what is the web app" because I think this is most useful.

@cydharrell and @lanebecker — would love your thoughts/input on this. and cc @migurski

cydharrell commented 10 years ago

Lots to like. There might be an ambiguity in that if you don't know what CV does, your existing referent for "collect feedback by telephone" might be a phone survey that you have to conduct. How about...

CityVoice lets you collect location-based feedback voicemails from community members and organizes the recordings in a user-friendly web interface.

(Maybe?) But throw it in front of someone unfamiliar with CV soon.

migurski commented 10 years ago

Is “location-based” too jargony?

CityVoice lets you collect community member feedback and voicemails about places in your city, and organizes the recordings in a user-friendly web interface.

daguar commented 10 years ago

I like! Is "voicemail" giving anyone else a weird connotation? Feels like it diminishes the coolness of our listening interfaces.

On Jul 10, 2014, at 2:47 PM, migurski notifications@github.com wrote:

Is “location-based” too jargony?

CityVoice lets you collect community member feedback and voicemails about places in your city, and organizes the recordings in a user-friendly web interface.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.

migurski commented 10 years ago

?

CityVoice lets you collect community member feedback and voicemails in their own words about places in your city, and organizes the recordings in a user-friendly web interface.

daguar commented 10 years ago

Hrm, here's what I'm evolving toward:

CityVoice lets you collect community feedback with an inclusive and easy-to-use medium — the telephone — and gives you a friendly web interface for exploring the results.

migurski commented 10 years ago

An out-loud suggestion when Dave and I talked, recorded here:

CItyVoice lets you collect community feedback easily from anyone by telephone, and gives you a friendly map interface for exploring the results.

cydharrell commented 10 years ago

CityVoice lets any resident submit feedback on hyper-local questions by voicemail, and gives you a friendly map interface for exploring the results.

CityVoice lets residents participate in hyper-local public decisions by voicemail, and shows you the results on a friendly map.

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:49 PM, migurski notifications@github.com wrote:

An out-loud suggestion when Dave and I talked, recorded here:

CItyVoice lets you collect community feedback easily from anyone by telephone, and gives you a friendly map interface for exploring the results.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/codeforamerica/cityvoice/issues/195#issuecomment-48696427 .

Cyd Harrell UX Evangelist cyd@codeforamerica.org