The others look more familiar to what they know.
People don't investigate the new, because it might hurt their current interests.

They'll come

I am a firm believer that if my guys and I do a good job, it will be adopted. We are doing at least two styles to appeal to different groups and circumstances.

nxt.org is privately owned, so no, not ours.

My strategy with the branding guys is a relatively small bounty (30,000) for the work, but they then hodl Nxt, which will give them a reason to keep developing.
If not, we have all material and can work from that.

Mind you, it needs to be a total package, or there will be no payment at all.

Haha, I am nót taking over nxtcrypto.org!  
nxtcrypto is QBTC's/the communities' site. I am not the community, nor its spokesperson/marketeer.

I ám working with a group of young designers to try and get a coordinated "brand" going.

Everyone will have a repository they can freely take stuff from if they need it, so they can quickly make promo-material or set up a site that immediately says "Nxt".

Everyone is equally free to disregard it. If the material we provide is good enough, people will use it (which I hope, because I wánt Nxt to be immediately recognised). If not, it will fail.

Also, as you can see from my list, "brand" is more than just visuals. Visuals are supporting the brand, not the other way around.
I hope that clears it up. Communication is hard

At the moment, however, I'm just polling for our visions, goals, targets etc. It may be we have widely different views. This is also OK. I am at the moment pushing the guys forwards, while at the same time reserving the right to tell them we need to change gears and throw out the things they are making at the moment.

I have some WWE fans that follow my Twitter stream. They must be completely confused 



Thanks!

Hey people,

As you may know I am in contact with a group of people who are working on a complete branding for Nxt to help with the marketing.

I have put together a questionnaire with some questions they have.

I would like as much input on this as possible, so if you want to take the time and help me help them get a clearer picture, that would be great.

There is no "right or wrong" in the questionnaire. If you want to keep your input off the forums, feel free to put it in a PM to me or email it to nxtcoinsNL@gmail.com.

I will compile it and send it to them in a few days. I will also report it in the marketing thread.

Thanks for your help!

Post with questionnaire is here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=412243.msg5487600#msg5487600

QBTC maintains the maind page, the main FB page and the main Twitter account.

http://www.nxtcrypto.org/
https://twitter.com/NxtCrypto
https://www.facebook.com/nxtcrypto

I believe Uniqueorn is already heading a Swarm, but I don't know if this is social media aimed.
Justabit also heads a swarm.

Allwelder heads all Chinese social media and already has a big weibo community there.

Meetup sounds like a nice idea. I just gave an Irish guy 500 Nxt to spread at his local Bitcoin meetup: https://nextcoin.org/index.php/topic,4272.0.html
Seemed like a good investment, which hopefully brings a few people in.

Right, to include everyone in this:

I would like some extra input from all of you, so I can forward it to my guys.
They are simple questions, but with big implications.

There is no "right or wrong" in these questions!

What is, in a few sentences, the "vision" behind Nxt?
I'm not looking for the right vison, but for what youthink is the vision. We don't need to agree, but we dó need it out in the open for now.

What is the purpose of Nxt?
Again, no right or wrong.

What are the goals of Nxt?
Same

Where are we now?
So, basically, at what stage do you think we are at? I'm not looking for a good/bad judgement here. Just an honest appraisal of where we are.

What are the key issues with Nxt at this point?
This will no doubt be connected with your earlier answers. Define a few key issues that really need to be addressed. Be honest!

What are our key target groups? Define at most three.
Keep it short. We could talk about this for hours, but I just want a short easy list.

What are the current strategies to engage these groups? Name at most three.
Strategies are conceptual. "Reach out to the main public" Show that Nxt is fun

Name a few of the employed tactics in these strategies.
A tactic is an action you take to execute the strategy. "Organise an online show match" "Get articles published in big newspapers/sites"

What strategies and tactics aren't we using and cóuld be used?

One of the first things my people told me is that these aren't explicit. We need to get them explicit. That way, we know what we are talking about. We don't need to agree, but we dó need to be clear.

I will post this over on the forums, too.

Please take some time to fill it out, so a) we ourselves define these and b) my guys don't have to come up with something that really isn't what we want, but we can't tell them why. Have fun, and thanks for your input!

I agree with this 100%. I have already said that íf I would have any plans (which I may) that would require funding, I would nót discuss or vote on them.
It's a choice I have made, and it may also mean that some projects may not even be possible to bring before the committee. So be it.

Also, the mandate for the committees is mainly for approval for plans brought before them, which máy extend to offering ideas for people to bring forward. Basically, they are just people who demand plans and financial underpinning, before releasing funds. This has already been voted upon.

I dó think that it would be in the remit of the committees to make it very well known that the funds are there for people to use! But mainly they are there to check and discuss and then decide. We already decided that the mandate did not extend to becoming centralised committees that "steer" Nxt.

On vision: I think most of us would agree on that. I would put "communication" even higher. I am quite sure that all of us have "vision", but we don't téll each other, which means people are not working together as well as they could.

Then make a CfB Farewell Party counter intstead 

I'm not surprised!

That's 10 cents they pay to get an email address.
Rather a good deal.

I also notice they don't have a privacy notice on the site, so they probably sell them on.

At this moment we're just looking at colours.

Hey guys, can I get some comment on the colour scheme?
I didn't put it up there just to be pretty 

Glad I woke up in the middle of the night!  

First mock-up of a colour scheme from my guys.

Just the colours are important, it's not a site

We're also working on a different red/yellow/white one, but this one is supposed to be for more business aimed uses:

What I mean is this: the articles left for, for instance, Dutch are mainly code. At least a lot of them are. This means mainly C/P, which takes time, but not a lot of translation.

However, there are also articles that require "true" translation.

joefox can probably see which ones these are and tell you. I can't and you can't see from the stats.

The bounty last month was 50,000. Don't know if we can keep that up, but the amount of work will go down, now that a lot has been translated. Might be a good idea to at least keep it a bit in line with fair payment. That doesn't mean it needs to be overpaid, but it would be nice for most to actually get some true amounts of Nxt out of it.

tl;dr: check with joefox, please

It's good to see we're in "the list" now, however.
No more "scam", and that's thanks to everyone's work over the last three-four months

I would say check with joefox.
He can give a better opinion on how much work was put in.

I translate the wiki myself, so I am bound to be biased

Well, at least it's shared on three channels now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNRiIxbS_XY 

Just want to point everyone to this video, which I think is gorgeous!


Uploaded to my YouTube Channel for easy sharing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNRiIxbS_XY

Holy crap, that is *beautiful*!

Well done!