Re: [Marketing] Press release and marketing plans for OpenOffice 2.0

2005-07-11 Thread Benjamin Horst
Adam, I agree about this idea and I think you are onto something good. Each of us should find our local newspapers, since they're more likely to be hungry for content and more likely to accept submissions from what they may see as random people. Living in Queens, in NYC, I see many local

Re: [Marketing] Press release and marketing plans for OpenOffice 2.0

2005-07-11 Thread Ian Lynch
On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 03:12 -0400, Benjamin Horst wrote: Adam, I agree about this idea and I think you are onto something good. Each of us should find our local newspapers, since they're more likely to be hungry for content and more likely to accept submissions from what they may see as

Re: [Marketing] off the project for a while

2005-07-11 Thread Elizabeth Matthis
Thanks for all the best wishes, both on the list and in private mail! You're a great bunch of people in a great community. Elizabeth - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [Marketing] Press release and marketing plans for OpenOffice 2.0

2005-07-11 Thread Adam Moore
As Craig suggested I posted this idea to the PR list. What I was thinking about is we come up with a Press Release that isn't the normal one with technical details. I think it should focus on more how we are taking over Microsoft Office's space. We need something that has an angle that the

[Marketing] Microsoft's Office Marketing Strategy

2005-07-11 Thread John McCreesh
Microsoft is investing $300m in Office marketing for fiscal 2006 and expanding the number of field sales people from 450 to more than 1,000 - Chris Capossela corporate vice president for the information worker product management group. http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/07/08/_office_partners/