| Roman |
11-18-2007 03:05 PM |
OK, I'm nobody, but here are my comments (I apologize now for rambling so much):
I really appreciate your intention, but I also kinda feel like consolidation/unification is more helpful than division. We already have tons of people on moi-alizee.us and alizee-forum speaking English. Maybe you are targeting different people that still speak English and feel that there's no room for more admins/staff in the current websites. I have recently seen a lot of overlapping between moi-alizee.us and alizee-forum - people like RMJ and Snatcher42 have spent time posting the same stuff in both places and identical conversations happen at both places. It would be nice if some of these duplications of effort could be eliminated.
I do admit that if you have too many people in one thread it becomes difficult to read through all the responses and therefore hard to diligently follow the discussion. I am thinking that all the websites of Alizée are great and people should certainly have a site where they feel comfortable and is in their preferred language; however, I think better organized websites with more fault tolerance (cooperation?) would be more profitable to supporting Alizée and her fan base. For example, better linkage for distributing news efficiently, particularly so that people don't miss Alizée related events. If there's going to be something significant happening that people can participate in, they shouldn't miss it. For example, I'm really happy that you got me in the "we miss you" video to Alizée. I had like a half hour to get that done, though, when I found out. Also, I was able to take part in a party in Washington state in tribute to Alizée's birthday. Also, I worry a bit about meticulous chronicalization. That is, keeping track of all the news, interviews, etc. And, of course, getting everything translated. Recently the Mademoizelle interview was transcribed and translated to English, but a small part was not done. I still don't know if it was done or ever will be. I can probably go back and figure it out myself, but it's something that others will just miss.
Also, what ways can we promote Alizée outside of the fan community that already exists? I discovered Alizée on YouTube, not an Alizée fan site. I know you can only do what you can do, though, and it's great that you are doing something to promote Alizée. Also, the community should remain friendly and personable in spite of a high degree of organization.
I think good home pages help attract new people. Some are better than others. I wonder if we can make it easier to find Alizée merchandise that people can wear/display/give away. I must get an Alizée t-shirt to wear when I go see her (whenever that is). There's a French learning text book that has Alizée in it. That's cool! I feel like there are so many people here in America that certainly she could have more fans if they just had her pushed in their faces a bit more.
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