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Update website banner to increase 2020 election awareness #1672

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tw15egan opened this issue Sep 4, 2020 · 4 comments · Fixed by #1680
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Update website banner to increase 2020 election awareness #1672

tw15egan opened this issue Sep 4, 2020 · 4 comments · Fixed by #1680

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@tw15egan
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tw15egan commented Sep 4, 2020

I'm glad we've used our platform to show support and bring awareness to the Black Lives Matter movement. With election day less than two months away, we should update our messaging towards increasing civic engagement and ensuring people are registered to vote. I've noticed a few websites/apps have already changed their messaging in a similar fashion:

Microsoft / GitHub

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Links to an internal blog post about civic engagement

Discord

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Links to vote.org which has a lot of valuable election day info, like checking to make sure you are registered and letting people sign up to vote by mail.

@vpicone suggested the idea of having it be a different color this time, so people know that the banner has changed 👍

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alisonjoseph commented Sep 4, 2020

@jeanservaas thoughts on the color of this banner, would we need to keep it blue, or could we change it to a gray 80 or something else? Also tagging @janchild for possible wording we could use for this message.

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@vpicone @tw15egan let's make this the issue where we change the content to the voting link:

sorry, I made a duplicate issue (#1672) but I brought the specs over here and closed that one.

  • Change banner color to Cyan 80
  • Change action text (@janchild I took a crack at this but it could be better (the link is https://www.vote.org/ )
  • Add 20px 'x' close icon to the banner to allow people to collapse it if they want to

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@janchild these are @mjabbink 's suggestions for copy

how about

Vote. Make sure you’re registered.

Vote America. Confirm you’re registered.

Remember to vote. https://www.vote.org

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mjabbink commented Sep 9, 2020

Prefer the ones with links so you know where you’re going

Remember to vote. https://www.vote.org

Vote America. https://www.vote.org

Consider efficiency for mobile

@kodiakhq kodiakhq bot closed this as completed in #1680 Sep 11, 2020
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