As part of the series of ICANN Beginners Guides, a Beginner's Guide for End Users and Consumers is being prepared.
The final draft will be completed in time for the 44th ICANN Meeting scheduled to take place 24-29 June 2012 in Prague. It will be available in EN, FR and ES.
This Workspace has been created to collect topics to be included in this Beginner's Guide, identify documents to be used in its preparation, and as a means to review drafts.
The tentative title names two intended audiences- end users and consumers. It's twice as hard to write a coherent document when it's intended for multiple audiences. If the topic is both technical and legal the difficulty is cubed. If possible, scope down to one of these audiences. For example, a guide that was scoped to introduce the ICANN ecology to the average domain registrant would likely be a stronger corpus than one that tries to focus on all kinds of consumers plus the average internet user.
Title: Guide to Participating in/Understanding ICANN. Takes care of issue of using the word beginners.
Subsets can exist from perspectives of participating/understanding the different constituencies, issues etc.
The guide can have levels of compleixty geared at users at different levels of expertise ons ubject matter.
The proposed ICANN academy and this guide should be similarly structured content wise - the guide would be a useful general resource for the academy and the academy can help with updating what could be termed outdated information.
I noticed that a new END USER Guide will be launched. Just an idea, when I have taken various computer courses we we were issued a single laminated hotsheet
5 Comments
Heidi Ullrich
Posted on behalf of Dharma Dailey; 23 April 2012:
Two suggestions:
1) Change the name. It's doubtful that what many End Users or Consumers will self-identify as such.
2) Test the material with a representative target audience.
Heidi Ullrich
Hi Dharma,
Thanks for your comments. We will post them to the Workspace.
Regarding the title, this is very much only a tentative title for exactly the reason you point out. Do you have any suggestions for a title?
Thanks very much,
Heidi
Heidi Ullrich
Posted on behalf of Dharma Dailey; 24 April 2012:
Hi Heidi,
The tentative title names two intended audiences- end users and consumers. It's twice as hard to write a coherent document when it's intended for multiple audiences. If the topic is both technical and legal the difficulty is cubed. If possible, scope down to one of these audiences. For example, a guide that was scoped to introduce the ICANN ecology to the average domain registrant would likely be a stronger corpus than one that tries to focus on all kinds of consumers plus the average internet user.
Hope that helps.
Dharma Dailey
titi.akinsanmi
Hello,
Title: Guide to Participating in/Understanding ICANN. Takes care of issue of using the word beginners.
Subsets can exist from perspectives of participating/understanding the different constituencies, issues etc.
The guide can have levels of compleixty geared at users at different levels of expertise ons ubject matter.
The proposed ICANN academy and this guide should be similarly structured content wise - the guide would be a useful general resource for the academy and the academy can help with updating what could be termed outdated information.
TT
Matt Ashtiani
Posted on behalf of Glenn McKnight
I noticed that a new END USER Guide will be launched. Just an idea, when I have taken various computer courses we we were issued a single laminated hotsheet
Example
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-unix-commands-cheat-sheets.html
Just an idea
Glenn