Re: [dita-fa-edboard] News/Announcements Content Requirements

[Scott Prentice <sp@leximation.com>]

Maybe this should be just "News" rather than "News/Announcements" .. an 
Announcement can certainly be in the future .. maybe that would help to 
draw a better distinction between news and events. I agree that we don't 
want to spend much time worrying about what gets on which list. I also 
agree that the ordering of the lists should be opposing as long as one 
is mainly future and the other is past.

...scott


Carol Geyer wrote:

>Sorry for the confusion. While working on the News page, I was looking for a press release to use as an example. The CM Conference
>press release happened to be in my in-box, so I grabbed it.
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>I don't think we need to spend too many cycles trying to police or redirect items on the News page, though. Realistically, there are
>many press releases and news articles published about conferences and about products. Just because a company lists its product on
>our Products and Services page doesn't mean they can't post a press release about it on the News page as well. Just because a
>conference is posted on the Events page doesn't mean a press release with details on its keynote can't be listed on the News page.
>The redundancy may be less than optimal, but I don't think it's a big issue.
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>As for the inconsistent ordering between the News and Events pages, there's a practical reason for this. When you look at News
>items, you want to see the most recent first. There is no "future" News, yet "Past" news may still be of interest. Events, on the
>other hand, is the opposite. "Future" events are what people need to see. We may want to keep links to past events around for
>archival purposes (especially if the conference organizers post presentations there), but if they are prominent, they'll make the
>page look dated.
>
>I'm usually all for consistency, but this is one instance where it doesn't work.
>
>
>Carol
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Scott Prentice [mailto:sp@leximation.com] 
>Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 12:45 PM
>To: Jerry Silver
>Cc: dita-fa-edboard@lists.xml.org
>Subject: Re: [dita-fa-edboard] News/Announcements Content Requirements
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>Sorry to be responding so late to this ..
>
>- What determines the difference between an event and a news/announcement item? In looking at the examples, I'd think that the CM
>Strategies Conference would be an event. It seems like we'd need to clearly define what type of items go on each list. I'd think
>that anything that can be attended by a group of people is an event and anything else is news/announcement.
>
>- I'd set up both of these lists in the same chronological order, the mockups are reversed from each other.
>
>- Will the events page handle recurring events?
>
>...scott
>
>Scott Prentice
>Leximation, Inc.
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>Jerry Silver wrote:
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>>Attached is an annotated mockup for the Focus Area News and 
>>Announcements page.
>> 
>>I'd like to see a new content type for DITA announcements.  The 
>>interaction model is:
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>>1. Authenticated users enter new announcements, via a form.  To enter 
>>a new announcement, they click on the "Add New Announcement" link, 
>>which will be available on the News and Announcements page, and 
>>possibly in other locations on the site.
>> 
>>2. Authenticated users can edit or delete announcements they have 
>>submitted.  An authenticated user will be able to see all the 
>>announcements they have created, use the form to update an 
>>announcment, or select an announcement for deletion.
>> 
>>3. People looking for news/announcements visit a News/Announcements 
>>page, a dynamically generated page that lists all relevant announcements.
>> 
>>A few additional requirements:
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>>1. The News and Announcements page should show up to two months of 
>>announcements (the current month and the previous month), in 
>>chronological order, grouped by month.
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>>2. Older events should still be accessible via the News and 
>>Announcements Archive page.  This page should contain a link for each 
>>month; e.g. a link to December 2005, November 2005, etc.  These 
>>archived pages can be dynamically generated, but they must be 
>>crawlable by a search engine, so they should avoid parameters in the 
>>URL.  Question: can the News and Announcements Archive Page be 
>>dynamically generated to add a new link each month?
>> 
>>Regards,
>> 
>>Jerry
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