[FM Discuss] how to show off booki?

[adam]

sold.

what format did you use for the case studies?

adam




On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 07:28 -0700, Adam Feuer wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:36 AM, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> > I just had a very interesting chat about finding potential funding for
> > FLOSS Manuals and Booki. One question that came up was - how do we show
> > people Booki in action so that funders would 'get it'?
> 
> Another idea that we have had success with at Grameen Foundation's
> Mifos: case studies.
> 
> These show people the results, to get their attention, then tell in
> the user's or customer's words how they used the software and what
> benefits they perceived. They don't show the software in action.
> 
> As a product-builder, I often want to show people how my software
> works... funders often don't care about that, or don't care so much.
> They care about the results. And they want to hear it from real
> customers - that often has more credibility than the people building
> the software.
> 
> If you want to do case studies, Grameen Foundation will be one. We got
> a lot of value out of FLOSSmanuals.
> 
> -adam