[MG] Tunisia and activism in general

[Alexander Praetorius]

Describing use cases is a nice thing to start with, but it also should be
illustrated using some pictures which visualize the described process.
I think the use case that is chosen
(http://www.metagovernment.org/wiki/Crossforum) is improvable ;)
It just doesn't make sense to the average person. You need examples that
might be relevant to the average person.

So instead of talking about poll Y or poll Z or whatever...
...it might be better to find examples that make sense to the average person
and that shows all the functionality of the solution that is being
exemplified. 

I believe  the average person is not good in deriving an interesting
particular case from the general one, but I believe the average person is
much more skilled in deriving an intuitive general concept from a particular
case of interest.

After this intuitive concept is acquired, it is much easier for the average
person to transfer this knowledge to other particular cases of interest.

--
Alexander Praetorius

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas von der Elbe [mailto:ThomasvonderElbe at gmx.de] 
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 4:17 PM
To: alex at twister11.de; Metagovernment Project
Subject: Re: [MG] Tunisia and activism in general

Hi everybody,

(I haven't been active for a while, because I changed my pc from Windows 
XP to Linux/Ubuntu. What an adventure! Right now I feel, it was very 
much worth the effort. But in between I had some really doubtful 
moments! LOL ...)

Wow, so much happend on the list in the meantime.

Welcome Alex, good to see you here!

On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 9:58, Alexander Praetorius wrote:

> So all that is needed is intuitive interfaces and good audiovisual
> explanations, so users might spread the word by themselves :)

I agree, that would be really really helpful!
And additionally I believe it also would be very helpful to demonstrate 
the tools to new people, i.e. really use them together. Isn't it always 
best to do both: Explain *and* show how something works?

For a start for the explanatory part of the crossforum theatre I drafted 
a use case scenario in our wiki here:
http://www.metagovernment.org/wiki/Crossforum

Since you have experiences with Power Point, ... would this be a good 
way to start?

Best, Thomas






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