[drupal-docs] Explaining drupal to artists

[Liza Sabater]

You need to talk to Darrel O'Pry from Thing.net. They're rebuilding 
their non-prof site using Drupal --and as I understand he had to 
"tweak" it for their purposes. If there ever was an art site for a case 
study, it's them.




On Jun 01 2005, at 04:47 PM, Kieran Lal wrote:

>
> On May 31, 2005, at 6:20 PM, farsheed wrote:
>> It'd help a lot if I could get some feedback to try
>> and revise it and make it sound better. You can read it
>> here (very rough draft):
>>
>> http://midnightparking.com/artistdrupal
>
> I think the main problem for me is that I don't know what artist
> want.  In general, this is a features list and I think to appeal to
> artists you need to acknowledge the challenges of artists.  Let me
> speculate a bit, but I suggest you do either an informal or real
> survey.  You can ask Charlie about audience research or I can point
> you to some stuff.
>
> 1) They don't have a budget for marketing their work.
> 2) They need to stay in touch with their fan base and supporters.
> 3) Showcase for their work
> 4) They need a place to get input from their community and look for
> inspirations.
>
> I don't think that is right, but let's start there.   So have a
> section called marketing for artists.
> Marketing
> -website, google ad words, blog, rsvp, trackback
> Staying in touch section
> -volunteer, mailing list, rsvp, contact, contact manager, events
> Showcase
> Images, podcasts, reviews, upload
> Community
> Blogs, trackback, comments, directory of artists so single sign-on, 
> etc.
>
> So you won't be emphasizing features, you'll be emphasizing the
> problems of artists and then teasing them with a potential solution.
> I would also suggest that people in an industry don't want to be
> trail blazers so they are more likely to do something if you can cite
> examples of other members of the industry that have already made the
> switch.  So give simple case examples of Moby, musicforamerica,
> youthmovementrecords, LINC, your stuff etc.
>
> Hope that helps.  Hopefully you'll get some comments from other folks
> soon.  Keep up the good work.
>
> Cheers,
> Kieran
>
>> Thanks!
>> Farsheed
>>
>>
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