Direction of VCENotes

[Collin Li]

Hey guys, I have a few questions directed at both the staff and the members of this website.

1. Is there a public version of the business plan, mission objectives, or the organisational goals of VCENotes?

2. I remember hearing a rumour of an offer to buy out VCENotes. If this is true, how much was offered, and by who?

3. Is anyone responsible for checking if there is any competition to VCENotes (in whatever fields VCENotes intends to serve - related to first question)? If so, what competitive threats does VCENotes face?

Just curious. I guess what I'm getting at is: is this site happy with the way it is, or is it looking for more?

I'm not just asking the admin, I'm asking the members too . Communicate with me, where would you like VCENotes to go today? Feel free to PM me or email me (preferred option) about it too! I would like to hear about it.

Ideas to inspire:
* How do you like the way the site runs now?
 - Is a forum the ideal way to operate this site?
 - Is the notes system the ideal way to distribute notes?
* How do you like the way the staff runs this site?
 - Are community staff who mix with the general community the best way to staff this site?
 - What roles should the staff have on this site?

...and so on! Ask these questions, even if you don't have the answers! I'm looking for food for thought for an experiment at university.

[TrueLight]

interesting question...especially 2 and 3 ...lol

[TonyHem]

Would this cover some of q1?

top quality education should be easily accessible and affordable, but the current system does not allow this. VCENotes.com is not here to point the blame. www.VCENotes.com is here to provide the solution.

[Collin Li]

Do you think VCEnotes achieves this goal effectively?

[TrueTears]

Do you think VCEnotes achieves this goal effectively?

I certainly do.

[TonyHem]

Probably not on a large scale but it sure helps.
Top quality education - Some schools have teachers that have had experience in VCAA assessing, writing text books and are much more knowledgeable than teachers from other schools. This gap can't be covered by VCEnotes.
The people that will respond to questions and the resources that can be obtained will help a lot of people.
The notes don't really play much of a part, it's generally just questions and people answer them. A lot of the notes are repeated, some are probably even wrong and the quality/repetition of notes isn't really assessed much.

[enwiabe]

1) Business plan is quite simple. Ad revenue. In the winter holidays, I'll be looking to sign a major advertising partner for the site to increase revenue dramatically.

2) The offer was not serious. It was from two high school kids. No price was ever quoted.

3) Currently, no major competitive threats exist. There is one minor website which sprang up last year, but has a posting rate which is analogous to the decay rate of carbon-14.

And I am happy with the site as it is, but it does need way more. The VN bank account is currently nearing the amount of money needed for a professional redesign, so I'm super excited about that. I think the current site design is adequate, but could be vastly improved upon. And it will be.

Hope this helps.

[Collin Li]

Thanks for your response admin!

In case anyone is curious, I'm looking to do a survey on attitudes to educational facilities available to VCE students for my honours project. I'd like to keep in touch with anyone who is interested in participating.

[Collin Li]

1) Business plan is quite simple. Ad revenue. In the winter holidays, I'll be looking to sign a major advertising partner for the site to increase revenue dramatically.

2) The offer was not serious. It was from two high school kids. No price was ever quoted.

3) Currently, no major competitive threats exist. There is one minor website which sprang up last year, but has a posting rate which is analogous to the decay rate of carbon-14.

And I am happy with the site as it is, but it does need way more. The VN bank account is currently nearing the amount of money needed for a professional redesign, so I'm super excited about that. I think the current site design is adequate, but could be vastly improved upon. And it will be.

Hope this helps.

Some follow-up questions: what was carbon-14 posting rate site?

How much are you intending to spend on the professional redesign and does the VN bank account grow merely by ad revenue?

Any other members of this site who have opinions about the facilities that VCENotes offers?

[/0]

Hmmm I was thinking if we wanted to make comprehensive notes as a community maybe there could be a forum where we could discuss and improve on each other's notes. Currently I just feel the notes being uploaded via 'contribute notes' are not getting the attention they deserve, especially given the name of the site.

[shinny]

I think /0's raised a good point. I reckon the quality of the notes could be vastly improved if we collaborated several sets of notes into one set, and perhaps get some people to volunteer to be 'editors'. However, this might be crossing over into viki territory, but judging on the progress of viki, I think immediate attention to the notes system might do some good.

[excal]

Or combining them.

[shinny]

Well yeh, that's what I meant by collaborating.

[Collin Li]

A VCENotes set of notes? No way!

[enwiabe]

I guess now is as good a time as any to say that very soon, I'll be opening up a new sub-forum to get ideas from you on what VCENotes should become with the professional re-design. Save these ideas, please, because I will be incorporating them into what I submit to the people redesigning the site. I do realise the pitfalls of the notes system, and I think it can be greatly improved in collaboration with the viki as you've suggested.

More ambitiously, we might try to compile "WikiBooks" (free, wiki style textbooks) for each subject!

Anyone feel like driving some textbook manufacturers out of business?