[SPAM] Mad Libs style forms

Justin O'Brien three at threethirty.us
Fri Feb 26 19:31:13 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 14:06 -0500, Mel Chua wrote:
> From #fedora-mktg: Robyn found a cool link!
> 
> http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1007 - "Mad Libs" Style Form Increases 
> Conversion 25-40%
> 
> Basically, if sign-up dialogs looked less like this:
> 
> name:     _________
> email:    _________
> username: _________
> password: _________
> 
> And more like this:
> 
> Hi, my name is ________ and my email is ________. I would like my 
> username to be ________ and my password to be ______.
> 
> ...people use 'em more.
> 
> I wonder what opportunities we might have to quickly try this out with 
> Fedora. fedora-tour immediately comes to mind, but that's not going to 
> be ready for prime-time for a bit - so how about FAS? 
> (https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/user/new)
> 
> This might be a neat thing to bring up around Beta release when we're 
> done with our deliverables (*knocks on wood*) and focusing on helping 
> other teams get new contributors started during their crunch times. 
> (Refer to the end of 
> http://blog.melchua.com/2009/12/24/whats-marketing-doing-for-f13-anyway-a-show-with-dancing-penguins/ 
> - actually, I should probably turn that into a wiki page sometime.)
> 
> --Mel

We could also make an introduction madlib, because I don't know about
everyone else but I felt really uneasy about mine :)

--threethirty



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