So we've done a bit of research to find out what websites are online that relate to the science community and we've altered the idea of what we'd like to achieve a bit.
We've figured out that there are already many scientific websites for different portions of the community existing online, however they're on different websites, and each has it's own unique purpose or intention.
The problem we see with this is that there is no connection between any of these creating forced barriers between the different communities. We also figured that the point of our website should be primarily in Australia as:
1) it's local for us and a much easier target market to understand
2) there isn't enough of a rockstar-like image given to the scientists we have in Australia - in USA they have people like Michio Kaku and Neil degrasse Tyson who are science advocates and communicators who sell these ideas to people and inspire people to be more interested in science. We decided we need this kind of thing in Australia so it's more relatable to people who we target
Nick is collaborating with some people he knows doing PhD's at USyd, while also writing emails to Neil degrasse Tyson, amongst others to not only see what their opinions on the matter are, but to get some advice about how to go about this.
I'm collaborating with a friend of mine who is a Psychology graduate and has experience in marketing industry for help with the way we will market this product to the people. The other persons I'm collaborating with is a PhD candidate friend of mine at UNSW on matters of science, the scientific community and more specifically why there isn't that same rockstar-like vision for our Scientists in Australia.
We need to now decide how this website will function and what it's purpose is, seeing as there are already many scientific communities online. We will also need to figure out how to make this website more enjoyable to the non-scientific community so that they will engage in the information we provide them with.
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