Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Nuts About Southwest

http://www.blogsouthwest.com/

Target Audience
  • employees of Southwest Airlines to find out what their fellow co-workers have to say about their experiences at the company
  • customers of Southwest to be able to get a more personal insight into the company
  • hope for discussion between the two groups

Usefulness of Content
  • many times hide a companies inner workings, but Southwest allows interested parties to really get to know what happens at Southwest
  • comes from actual Southwest employees so is more credible information
  • allows for customer feedback, engaging the consumer & can make the company better by them learning from participants in the blog

Consistency of Design
  • draws the reader down the page with all the content centered in the middle
  • a lot of white space, but use the company colors to enhance the look
  • provide a snippet of the post, followed by a link to the entire post & a link to leave a comment

Ease of Navigation
  • have to scroll pretty far to get to the last entry
  • ability to turn the blog into an RSS feed
  • can easily find Southwest related links, archives of the blog, & other related links to the airline business
  • can search for topics or look under designated topic categories
  • make it easy to return to the home page--just click on the peanuts!

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