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| 3) Put flags to other communities | | 3) Put flags to other communities |
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− | Put on top of your "Dolibarr XXX portal", a link with flags to others majors communities (for the moment, link to international web site http://www.dolibarr.org, french portal http://www.dolibarr.fr and spanish portal http://www.dolibarr.es). Links must appears on TOP of Home page and be visible by visitor with no need to move and scrollbar. If main links are at bottom, of you page, just add visible flags at top. | + | Put on top of your "Dolibarr XXX portal", a link with flags to others majors communities (for the moment, link to international web site https://www.dolibarr.org, french portal http://www.dolibarr.fr and spanish portal http://www.dolibarr.es). Links must appears on TOP of Home page and be visible by visitor with no need to move and scrollbar. If main links are at bottom, of you page, just add visible flags at top. |
| Also, the Dolibarr foundation will NOT pay for Google adwords campaigns to promote your web site if this rule is not applied (today users trust only international solutions, and we know that not doing this is a a marketing error making everybody waste its time). | | Also, the Dolibarr foundation will NOT pay for Google adwords campaigns to promote your web site if this rule is not applied (today users trust only international solutions, and we know that not doing this is a a marketing error making everybody waste its time). |
| Curently flags must be provided for France: dolibarr.fr, Spain: dolibarr.es, Italy; dolibarr.it, Greece: dolibarr.gr, Germany: dolibarr.de | | Curently flags must be provided for France: dolibarr.fr, Spain: dolibarr.es, Italy; dolibarr.it, Greece: dolibarr.gr, Germany: dolibarr.de |
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| 4a) Your portal MUST provide a demo area (and not exlusively your service if this demo is your Cloud service) | | 4a) Your portal MUST provide a demo area (and not exlusively your service if this demo is your Cloud service) |
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− | 40% of visitors coming home page goes then onto the demo link. So you MUST have a link to a demo. If you don't plan to provide it, just link to http://demo.dolibarr.org. An entry page "demo" or "try it" must be visible into home page with such link. Links can also be links to your own Cloud hosting system to provide demo, but check next point is ok too. | + | 40% of visitors coming home page goes then onto the demo link. So you MUST have a link to a demo. If you don't plan to provide it, just link to https://demo.dolibarr.org. An entry page "demo" or "try it" must be visible into home page with such link. Links can also be links to your own Cloud hosting system to provide demo, but check next point is ok too. |
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| 4b) If you still present your commercial hosting solution (Saas) with online subscription link directly on a page into the community portal domain name (that can be used as a demo or not), check that: | | 4b) If you still present your commercial hosting solution (Saas) with online subscription link directly on a page into the community portal domain name (that can be used as a demo or not), check that: |
| * The link to your commercial solution must point to another page on your own company web site and any prices must appears ONLY on this second page that is your company page, not on the page of the community portal. No prices should appears on a community domain name because any commercial services are provided by a company not by the community. | | * The link to your commercial solution must point to another page on your own company web site and any prices must appears ONLY on this second page that is your company page, not on the page of the community portal. No prices should appears on a community domain name because any commercial services are provided by a company not by the community. |
− | * On the community portal page, if linking to your company solution, you must also provide links at same place of at least 2 other competitors (goal is to show community project is available on several providers. It's not a problem if your offer is shown first but visibility must be equals). Just take a look, to see how it must be on french community portal http://www.dolibarr.fr/demo-en-ligne or english http://www.dolibarr.org/onlinedemo). If you don't want to maintain a list of "ready to use" demo services, you can replace all links (yours and the 2 other competitors) by just one link to: http://saas.dolibarr.org (choose what is best for you). Alternative is to provide no link at all (nor yours, nor any other services). | + | * On the community portal page, if linking to your company solution, you must also provide links at same place of at least 2 other competitors (goal is to show community project is available on several providers. It's not a problem if your offer is shown first but visibility must be equals). Just take a look, to see how it must be on french community portal http://www.dolibarr.fr/demo-en-ligne or english https://www.dolibarr.org/onlinedemo). If you don't want to maintain a list of "ready to use" demo services, you can replace all links (yours and the 2 other competitors) by just one link to: https://saas.dolibarr.org (choose what is best for you). Alternative is to provide no link at all (nor yours, nor any other services). |
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| Goal of this rule is to keep a separation between OpenSource project and commercial offers. Don't think this rule will slow down your business, our experience show it is the opposite. Users don't trusts a project that start to show prices (they just do not enter into demo. Trust us, everybody wins to match this rule). | | Goal of this rule is to keep a separation between OpenSource project and commercial offers. Don't think this rule will slow down your business, our experience show it is the opposite. Users don't trusts a project that start to show prices (they just do not enter into demo. Trust us, everybody wins to match this rule). |
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| 6) Put links to social networks | | 6) Put links to social networks |
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− | If you don't plan to animate a dedicated social networks, add, on front page of your portal web site, links to official (english) Dolibarr social Networks. You will find list of links on page [[FAQ How to be informed on news about Dolibarr project ?]]. Using a box "Social Networks" like the one found on http://www.dolibarr.org is a good thing. If you want to animate your own local social Networks, you can replace international links with yours, but try to always keep a link at least for "Facebook", "Twitter" and "Google+" (use links for english social networks available onto dolibarr.org if you don't cover them for your language). | + | If you don't plan to animate a dedicated social networks, add, on front page of your portal web site, links to official (english) Dolibarr social Networks. You will find list of links on page [[FAQ How to be informed on news about Dolibarr project ?]]. Using a box "Social Networks" like the one found on https://www.dolibarr.org is a good thing. If you want to animate your own local social Networks, you can replace international links with yours, but try to always keep a link at least for "Facebook", "Twitter" and "Google+" (use links for english social networks available onto dolibarr.org if you don't cover them for your language). |
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| Some countries may need to use other social networks than occidental one (like China with Weibo or QQ). | | Some countries may need to use other social networks than occidental one (like China with Weibo or QQ). |
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| The Dolibarr foundation will also edit the dolibarr.org portal to add link of your web site into "local communities" box. | | The Dolibarr foundation will also edit the dolibarr.org portal to add link of your web site into "local communities" box. |
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− | But if you create/animate your own social networks, you must check that you are not the only owner of social network. Goal is to be sure that the network the community invest on, will not be lost if something happen to you (we don't hope so, but we must be secured). For Facebook, Google+ you can add the account of a member of the Dolibarr board team (http://wiki.dolibarr.org/index.php/Office_and_Board_Members#Members_of_Board). For other social Networks, you can create an account for us too and send us credential. | + | But if you create/animate your own social networks, you must check that you are not the only owner of social network. Goal is to be sure that the network the community invest on, will not be lost if something happen to you (we don't hope so, but we must be secured). For Facebook, Google+ you can add the account of a member of the Dolibarr board team (https://wiki.dolibarr.org/index.php/Office_and_Board_Members#Members_of_Board). For other social Networks, you can create an account for us too and send us credential. |
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| 7) Your portal MUST provide a forum or link to external forum | | 7) Your portal MUST provide a forum or link to external forum |
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| If you don't plan to animate a dedicated forum (it is better having no forum than having a forum you don't answer), you must add a link to another existing forum: | | If you don't plan to animate a dedicated forum (it is better having no forum than having a forum you don't answer), you must add a link to another existing forum: |
| * If a forum exists for your language animated by a community of another country, add a link to this one. | | * If a forum exists for your language animated by a community of another country, add a link to this one. |
− | * If no forum exists on other portal for your language, add a link to official (english) Dolibarr forum (http://dolibarr.org/forum) with text "Forum (english only)". | + | * If no forum exists on other portal for your language, add a link to official (english) Dolibarr forum (https://dolibarr.org/forum) with text "Forum (english only)". |
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| 8) Include the foundation Google Analytics tag | | 8) Include the foundation Google Analytics tag |
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− | Add a google analytics tag into all of your portal pages. Then add the dolibarr foundation email (assodolibarr@gmail.com) to be allowed to have read only access on Google analytics views or setup your Google analytics to send monthly reports to the foundation Google analytics account (assodolibarr@gmail.com). | + | Add a google analytics tag into all of your portal pages. Then add the dolibarr foundation email (contact@dolibarr.org) to be allowed to have read only access on Google analytics views or setup your Google analytics to send monthly reports to the foundation Google analytics account (contact@dolibarr.org). |
− | Note: To share a readonly access to statistics of a site, go onto home statistics page of this site into google analytics, then click onto the link "Admin" on top bar on the left. Then click on tab "Users" and add assodolibarr@gmail.com as a new user. | + | Note: To share a readonly access to statistics of a site, go onto home statistics page of this site into google analytics, then click onto the link "Admin" on top bar on the left. Then click on tab "Users" and add contact@dolibarr.org as a new user. |
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| '''Conclusion:''' | | '''Conclusion:''' |