Facebook - like or group or both

I've set up two things on Facebook for Nudge Village. One is a group where I invited people in (without choice) and one where I invite people to "like" a page if they so choose.

So far people have commented on the group and added their own entries, but not on the "like" page. Interesting.

Will keep them both up just to see what is most effective over time.

Editing and Revising

While driving home from my day job I got all kinds of ideas on how to improve the site. Here are a few changes that I made today that may help.

• Navigation - changed "Village Stories" to "Villagers" - thought it might have been a confusing title. Plus, I may want to use "Village Stories" at another time for something else, like actual village stories.
• Nudginary - took Brett's comment from the "Post a Nudge" section and made a resource link called "Nudginary." We'll see if people are interested in forming some words for the community. If not, no harm done, but it could be a fun activity for some.
• Daily Nudge from a Nudger - Anthony wrote a great piece on logos in the "Post a Nudge" section and so I pulled it and turned it into a daily nudge entry for today. This is what community is all about - sharing knowledge and learning from the knowledge others provide. Great stuff!
• Navigation - Opportunities became Help Wanted - not sure what difference this will make, but wanted to have a new title for this section. Perhaps people will want to post things they need help on here instead of making it like a job site. After all, we are hoping to get people pursuing passions instead of perhaps a cubicle job...unless people work well in cubicles.
• Navigation - took "Sandbox" out of the main navigation and put it as a sub-resource page. This blog will feed into it - if I can figure out how to keep it going continually instead of manually. I like the idea of people sharing in the journey of the site creation (if they want to) and it may help me capture moments that might get forgotten along the way.

Whew! Two hours on this and it doesn't feel like it, but all good.

Oh, I also posted the latest "Daily Nudge" links on Facebook. We'll see if anyone comes to the site from it.

Logos - displaying the brainstorming

So, there is quite a bit of functionality offered when you pay for it through http://www.squarespace.com.

I decided to upload all of the logos I've been playing with using the photo gallery functionality. It isn't too bad and there are a lot of different options for presented the photos and graphics.

Here's the album - http://www.nudgevillage.com/photo-galleries/nudge-village-logos/ - and I'm sure I'll tweak it as I find out about more functionality.

It is nice to have it be live, but a work in progress thanks to modern technology.

Nudginary

One of our "nudgers" entered a comment about how we should have a nudge dictionary. Very clever!

We'll get working on it. Great idea.

Who is your audience?

Today I met up with a friend to talk about the holidays and the endeavors we are pursuing. She asked me one question:

"Who is the audience for Nudge Village?"

I think, or thought, I knew. However, this is something that I think is still coming together.

In my mind, Nudge Village is for entrepreneurs. In whatever type of business they may be in, but I'm finding that people don't think they are necessarily an entrepreneur if they write a book. Hmmmm. I count that as entrepreneurship.

So, perhaps my audience is bigger. Perhaps it is a place for people pursuing their passions meet and share how to turn their ideas into products or businesses.

Is that too broad? I don't know. But, I will keep playing with the tag lines and such until I figure it all out.

I may even move this blog into Nudge Village itself so that people can see my sandbox as I learn and grow on the site.

Isn't it great to be around people that ask questions? It helps me go through the process of clarifying what I'm really trying to do!

Languishing Logo

I'm still languishing on the logo for this site. I've decided that from here on out, I will pick something that I think is right now that I've asked enough opinions.

However, it doesn't mean the answer has come to me any faster.

So, hanging in there and allowing myself time over the holidays to figure out the best logo for the site.

Coming soon.....

In the meantime, I am trying to add a daily nudge to the website - http://www.nudgevillage.com - and so hopefully along the way it will get a following and people will start to comment and share.

A Village of Nudgers

So, the Senior Nudger gave me the idea to use the phrase "A Village of Nudgers" for Nudge Village. Will need to figure out if I have that as the title of the page, the tag line or in what capacity.

That really is the desired outcome - to have us all nudge each other toward our entrepreneurial dreams, passions or whatever.

Hmmm. Will have to think on this for a bit.