There’s been a lot of discussion over on Tara’s blog about the concept of Boutique. While I am going to be referencing her blog posts, the majority of the actual evolution is occurring in the comments themselves, so if you don’t read those you’re missing about half the content.
The original conversation started with this post laying out the rough idea of Boutique, which Tara followed up with a more solidified idea as well as a graphical chart comparing Luxury, Commodity, and Boutique. That conversation is still going on in the comments to a degree. I thought I would also say that when I initially heard Tara’s description of Boutique it reminded me of this post about ‘slow’ marketing.
One thing I’d like to mention is if you haven’t been to Tara’s blog or haven’t invested a lot of time reading it yet, you should. Out of the many blogs I read over, hers makes me feel the most involved in the conversations that take place, as is especially the case with this most recent one on Boutique.
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Tara Hunt // January 30, 2007 at 10:48 pm |
Thanks Nathan! That means alot.
I’ve actually just changed the structure of my comments to allow for some threading. I’m hoping that will advance the conversation even more. I’m wanting to add some public forums to the discussions, too…so it becomes less about my post and more about the conversation itself.
Nathan // January 31, 2007 at 2:25 am |
No, thank you, Tara :)
I noticed the new structure of the comments, I think it’s fantastic! I personally don’t think at the moment it’s so much about ‘your post’ as it is that your post is the foundation or suggestion of the idea. Even if it were in a forum layout, that wouldn’t change.
Also, forums take (as I am sure you know) a lot of time and mean something inherently different within themselves.
Perhaps a different solution which could be a new widget idea is a “Current Conversations” widget. I imagine this could work a variety of different ways.