Re: [marketing] Updates....

2011-02-11 Thread Benjamin Horst
penoffice.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org >>> >> >> >> ----- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org >> For addit

Re: [marketing] Kool-aid anyone?

2010-09-19 Thread Benjamin Horst
Our primary competitor has lost the initiative, and it's rare that a company ever regains it, once gone. Paradigms just shift too quickly in this industry. Meanwhile, we continue to build momentum. We need to keep up our hard work to achieve the highest possible trajectory, but we can do this wi

Re: [marketing] BrOffice.org Magazine - 10 years of OOo

2010-08-18 Thread Benjamin Horst
Luiz, If my other commitments allow me the time, I'd like to help edit the English version of the special edition once translations are ready. Please feel free to contact me directly, at this email address, when your team is ready. Ben Sent from my iPhone On Aug 18, 2010, at 7:56 AM, luiz wr

Re: [marketing] ODF has been proposed as Indonesian National Format

2010-07-28 Thread Benjamin Horst
Fourth most populous country in the world! This is big! Sent from my iPhone On Jul 28, 2010, at 2:06 PM, "Charles-H. Schulz" > wrote: Congratulations indeed! Charles. Le 28 juil. 2010 à 18:42, Danishka Navin a écrit : Congrads! On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Willy Sudiarto Raharjo wro

Re: [marketing] OOo conversion

2010-05-14 Thread Benjamin Horst
It's really great to read this, Ian. Thanks for sharing! Ben Sent from my iPhone On May 14, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Ian wrote: One of our INGOT schools told my colleague that they have now ditched MSO in favour of OOo. This is a school for children with learning difficulties and has no specialist

Re: [marketing] "Follow us" badge at top page of ja.openoffice.org (Re: [marketing] JA project starts twittering and you can see it on ja.openoffice.org)

2010-04-17 Thread Benjamin Horst
re they also post stuff about OOo. >> >> > Hi, > > Doing a quick search for like named or described accounts gets this list: > > http://twitter.com/drewjensen/ooo-tweets > > I like how the OpenOffice.org Peru account links back to a p

Re: [marketing] Getting a corrected listing

2010-02-25 Thread Benjamin Horst
Hi Lars, What is the link to the page where OOo appears on Apple's site, and what is the text you sent already? To start, we can ask more people to point it out to see if that gets their attention. Ben Sent from my iPhone On Feb 25, 2010, at 4:07 AM, Lars Nooden wrote: Yesterday I l

Re: [marketing] Some very interesting stats

2010-02-10 Thread Benjamin Horst
The other big take-away for me is the low install base of MSO. Common knowledge has long been that it is installed on 95% of computers, however, we don't see it higher than 88% anywhere, and in the very large, home market of its creator (USA), it's only 75%! We should promote this meme as w

Re: [marketing] Some very interesting stats

2010-02-09 Thread Benjamin Horst
These stats are interesting and very positive for OOo. I think we should support and strengthen the meme around this info, by reposting and discussing and analyzing it extensively. Work on establishing it as the new "common knowledge," and then we can benefit from the halo effect associate

Re: [marketing] Re: [art] marketing blog

2010-01-26 Thread Benjamin Horst
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Re: [marketing] American Library Association 2010 Annual Conference

2010-01-11 Thread Benjamin Horst
I strongly agree. Education should be a very fertile market for our promotional work. This ALA conference is in Washington DC, so it's possibly within range for me. Anthony is near DC as well, so if he's available that could be great. Ben Sent from my iPhone On Jan 11, 2010, at 12:55 PM

Re: [marketing] twitter feeds

2009-11-10 Thread Benjamin Horst
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Re: [marketing] twitter feeds

2009-11-08 Thread Benjamin Horst
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Re: [marketing] Microblogging OpenOffice.org at Six Apart

2009-11-02 Thread Benjamin Horst
I did not launch the site on Friday (too many other commitments), but I'm hoping to have my test Motion site, www.shareopenoffice.org, available tomorrow. Even after we launch, it's easy to add new feeds, so feel free to send them! -Ben On Oct 29, 2009, at 11:27 PM, Benjamin H

[marketing] Microblogging OpenOffice.org at Six Apart

2009-10-29 Thread Benjamin Horst
ion to suggesting feeds, I'd really like you all to join this new community with me! Thanks, Ben Benjamin Horst www.solidoffice.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.or

Re: [marketing] Some news from o...@consegi

2009-09-06 Thread Benjamin Horst
Alexandro, Thanks for sharing these notes! It is very satisfying to see the strong adoption of ODF in Brazil and other markets around the world. Ben Sent from my iPhone On Sep 5, 2009, at 4:40 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: I want to share this link from Jomar Silva from ODF Alliance w

Re: [marketing] Chinese Microsoft Office Web Apps Rival Launching Soon

2009-08-12 Thread Benjamin Horst
This is not RedOfiice, which is made by RedFlag 2000 from Beijing... Sent from my iPhone On Aug 12, 2009, at 2:32 PM, John McCreesh wrote: On Wed, August 12, 2009 19:22, Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:14:10 -0500, John McCreesh > wrote: "A Chinese company that offers a ri

Re: [marketing] Microsoft's COO about Openoffice

2009-07-24 Thread Benjamin Horst
I think the COO's statement reveals the pressure they're under from OOo. They have had to retreat up the value chain to some extent, as Clayton Christianson predicted. For those to whom the whole "stack" of apps and servers is overkill (home users, small business, students, etc), MS has les

Re: [marketing] Updates to the Dashboard Concept

2009-06-03 Thread Benjamin Horst
contributions as well. Thanks, again! Regards, Ivan. On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Benjamin Horst wrote: Hello, I've been working on the Dashboard concept some more and have the following semi-functional mockup to share. This would appear in the OOo application window where the s

Re: [marketing] Updates to the Dashboard Concept

2009-06-03 Thread Benjamin Horst
n. On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: Le 03.06.2009 03:57, Benjamin Horst a écrit : Hello, I've been working on the Dashboard concept some more and have the following semi-functional mockup to share. This would appear in the OOo application window where the start cent

[marketing] Updates to the Dashboard Concept

2009-06-02 Thread Benjamin Horst
than a collection of separate applications. Also, due to its design as HTML and Javascript, it's very easy to change the look and feel of the Dashboard very quickly. See further description on the wiki here: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Dashboard_Concept -Ben

Re: [marketing] Request for funding to assist ECSL to Luis E. Vasquez

2009-06-01 Thread Benjamin Horst
ibe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org Benjamin Horst bho...@mac.com 646-464-2314 (Eastern) www.solidoffice.com - To unsubscr

Re: [marketing] OOo at Southeast Linuxfest (13 June, Clemson, SC)

2009-04-23 Thread Benjamin Horst
noffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org Benjamin Horst bho...@mac.com 646-464-2314 (Eastern) www.solidoffice.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additio

Re: [marketing] Bundling of extensions in OpenOffice.org

2009-04-16 Thread Benjamin Horst
Alexandro is completely right about the importance of making this process effortless for OOo users. The Dashboard concept we have been working on may be a good foundation for the seamless browsing and installation of extensions he has described--indeed, it is inspired by the ease of downloadin

Re: [marketing] Re: [authors] Fwd: Call for Chapters: Free and Open Source Software for E-Learning

2009-03-26 Thread Benjamin Horst
ail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org Benjamin Horst bho...@mac.com 646-464-2314 (Eastern) www.solidoffice.com

[marketing] Re: [authors] Fwd: Call for Chapters: Free and Open Source Software for E-Learning

2009-03-26 Thread Benjamin Horst
LIGATIONS! http://documentation.openoffice.org http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation Benjamin Horst bho...@mac.com 646-464-2314 (Eastern) www.solidoffice.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing

[marketing] Fwd: Call for Chapters: Free and Open Source Software for E-Learning

2009-03-26 Thread Benjamin Horst
and school or professional affiliation in each posting. To unsubscribe send the following command to: lists...@h-net.msu.edu SIGNOFF EDTECH Benjamin Horst bho...@mac.com 646-464-2314 (Eastern) www.solidoffice.com

Re: [marketing] Article on French Gendarmerie and OSS

2009-03-13 Thread Benjamin Horst
a flashback. ;) (**)Shared by many nations. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org Benjamin Horst bho...@

Re: [marketing] 356,800 green workstations running BrOffice.org

2009-02-28 Thread Benjamin Horst
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Re: [marketing] India to launch $10 laptop?

2009-02-18 Thread Benjamin Horst
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Re: [marketing] Joined the identi.ca OpenOffice.org group

2009-02-05 Thread Benjamin Horst
tional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@marketing.openoffice.org Benjamin Horst bho...@mac.com 646-464-2314 (ET) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org For additional commands

Re: [marketing] A different Market focus

2009-02-03 Thread Benjamin Horst
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Re: [marketing] A different Market focus

2009-01-29 Thread Benjamin Horst
See below... Ben On Jan 28, 2009, at 6:20 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:59:35 -0600, Lars Noodén g> wrote: Alexandro Colorado wrote: ... althought I would take it to the whole KDE community. KOffice and KDE are too close to just have the KOffice people... Since

Re: [marketing] Company Buzz for OOo

2009-01-28 Thread Benjamin Horst
ust a matter of everyone adopting this widgets into their blog. Any other comments? On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Benjamin Horst wrote: Let's write instructions for adding the Planet feed into personal blogs and store that on the wiki somewhere. I think it's a good, concrete first ste

Re: [marketing] Company Buzz for OOo

2009-01-26 Thread Benjamin Horst
rado wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Benjamin Horst wrote: Do you envision this as something we'd place on our marketing site somewhere, to show that people are talking about OOo? Or use it on the social profile pages we've created for OOo on LinkedIn and Facebook and o

Re: [marketing] Company Buzz for OOo

2009-01-26 Thread Benjamin Horst
king about a certain company or object. Please let me know if anyone think this is a good idea. There is a linkedin widget too here: http://www.linkedin.com/opensocialInstallation/preview?_ch_panel_id=1&_applicationId=1000 -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español IM: j...@jabber.org

Re: [marketing] Mozilla marketing brochure

2009-01-07 Thread Benjamin Horst
e can support the educational project just let us know. Thanks! Geertjan Weijman Benjamin Horst schreef: For something akin to version control but more user-friendly, I suggest we take a look at Alfresco or O3Spaces. Both are open source enterprise content management systems that co

Re: [marketing] Introduction (RiteshVerma, Mumbai, India)

2008-12-31 Thread Benjamin Horst
or return e-mail message (ritesh.ve...@oiltanking.com) and delete the original transmission, its attachments, and any copies without reading or saving in any manner. Thank you. Benjamin Horst bho...@mac.com 646-464-2314 (ET) ---

Re: [marketing] Mozilla marketing brochure

2008-12-30 Thread Benjamin Horst
etary application to manage their code. Thats what generated GIT as a FLOSS alternative. Althought this said, I am aware OOo already uses a proprietary application using Collabnet. On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:01:07 -0600, Benjamin Horst wrote: For something akin to version control but more

Re: [marketing] Mozilla marketing brochure

2008-12-30 Thread Benjamin Horst
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Re: [marketing] Three million

2008-10-20 Thread Benjamin Horst
me who go directly to a mirror (my ISP has a mirror of OO.o that is only accessible by their users) 3 million is probably conservative. -- Alex Fisher Co-Lead, CD-ROM Project OpenOffice.org Marketing Community Contact Australia/New Zealand http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom

Re: [marketing] OpenDesktop and social applications on OOo

2008-09-24 Thread Benjamin Horst
Karlitschek [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Alexandro Colorado CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES http://es.openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ben

Re: [marketing] OpenDesktop and social applications on OOo

2008-09-18 Thread Benjamin Horst
one), then we have the ability to breed in the product development by working into translating the vision into a set of more specific features or choices. Feel free to join the IRC conf tomorrow by the way. Best, Charles. Le 18 sept. 08 à 14:49, Benjamin Horst a écrit : Hi Charles, Wha

Re: [marketing] OpenDesktop and social applications on OOo

2008-09-18 Thread Benjamin Horst
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Re: [marketing] Fwd: Call for Presentations on Open Source at CUE and NECC

2008-09-16 Thread Benjamin Horst
rt of your team to propagate the Open Source(Openoffice.org) Regards, Vikram Gaur India +91-9871390284 On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 08:22 -0400, Benjamin Horst wrote: If anyone is available and interested, the educational conferences listed below would be an ideal way for us to branch out toward the e

Re: [marketing] Fwd: Call for Presentations on Open Source at CUEand NECC

2008-09-12 Thread Benjamin Horst
AIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Will this conference be recorded so that those who cant attend could still be there? Thanks, Tim Godfrey -Original Message- From: Vikram Gaur [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 1:59 AM To: dev@marketing.openoffice.org Cc: Benjamin

[marketing] Fwd: Call for Presentations on Open Source at CUE and NECC

2008-09-11 Thread Benjamin Horst
cue.org/conference/present NECC: Due Wednesday, October 8th. http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2009/program/ I hope you will consider participating! Steve -- Steve Hargadon [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.stevehargadon.com 916-899-1400 cell Benjamin Horst [EMAIL PROTECTED] 646-464-2314 (ET)

Re: [marketing] OpenOffice.org Social network

2008-09-09 Thread Benjamin Horst
Hi, On Sep 5, 2008, at 9:54 AM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Benjamin Horst wrote: One of the benefits of Launchpad is that it's a central place for all projects to work together. Thus, installing a separate Launchpad instance for certain projects could serve to fracture it and make it

Re: [marketing] OpenOffice.org Social network

2008-09-04 Thread Benjamin Horst
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Re: [marketing] OpenOffice.org Social network

2008-08-29 Thread Benjamin Horst
thing to enterprise. Best, Charles. Le 23 août 08 à 19:05, Benjamin Horst a écrit : Hey Alexandro, Thanks for this idea, and thanks for reading my blog! I think you are on to something here. I think Elgg could make a great communication platform for the widespread members of the OOo projec

Re: [marketing] OpenOffice.org Social network

2008-08-23 Thread Benjamin Horst
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Re: [marketing] Otto club

2008-08-04 Thread Benjamin Horst
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Re: [marketing] Greetings to oOo marketing project

2008-07-28 Thread Benjamin Horst
trying to convert my immediate circle of friends and frantically emailing various IT staff; any pointers to work that needs to be done are welcome. Thanks! Sincerely, Yuhan Fang Benjamin Horst [EMAIL PROTECTED] 323-244-8832 (ET) -

Re: [marketing] Mozilla Thunderbird + Lightning promotion on OO.o

2008-06-25 Thread Benjamin Horst
Spicebird, a new open source application being built on top of Thunderbird, seems like it will solve some of your problems. Have others on this list used Spicebird or communicated with the developers? I'm interested to see where they are headed. http://www.spicebird.com/ Thanks, Ben On Ju

Re: [marketing] Missing links in release notes?

2008-03-28 Thread Benjamin Horst
ce). -Ben On Mar 28, 2008, at 11:18 AM, Andrew Ziem wrote: Benjamin Horst wrote: It's a great article, Andrew, and looks like you put a lot of time into it. Plus, you got linked from Slashdot, so congrats on that, and thanks for bringing extra traffic and attention to the 2.4 release

Re: [marketing] Missing links in release notes?

2008-03-28 Thread Benjamin Horst
It's a great article, Andrew, and looks like you put a lot of time into it. Plus, you got linked from Slashdot, so congrats on that, and thanks for bringing extra traffic and attention to the 2.4 release through your efforts! -Ben On Mar 28, 2008, at 9:04 AM, Andrew Ziem wrote: Florian E

[marketing] Drupalcon Boston and OOo

2008-03-04 Thread Benjamin Horst
Hi All, I'm at Drupalcon Boston this week and today I saw three presentations-- all of which used Macs and NeoOffice for their slides... and one of these presentations was from Google. (A fourth didn't use slides, just demoed things in the terminal and browser.) I've also seen that Linux u

Re: [marketing] Proposal: Drop Win98 support with OOo 3.0 release

2008-02-11 Thread Benjamin Horst
gt;Regards, >Kirill. > >- Original Message >From: Benjamin Horst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 10:30:28 PM > >Cristian, > >You are right that some companies and individuals are still on Windows 98 by >necessity. > >One advantage

Re: [marketing] Proposal: Drop Win98 support with OOo 3.0 release

2008-02-11 Thread Benjamin Horst
-Ben OpenOffice and open source blog: http://www.solidoffice.com/ Wiki business directory: http://www.wikipages.com/ On Monday, February 11, 2008, at 02:07PM, "Cristian Driga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Benjamin Horst wrote: >> If someone has a computer that old, they re

Re: [marketing] Proposal: Drop Win98 support with OOo 3.0 release

2008-02-11 Thread Benjamin Horst
If someone has a computer that old, they really should switch it to Linux anyway! :) I think ending support for Windows 98 will have no negative impact on our marketing. In fact, we could probably spin it to be positive somehow... "our code base is too modern and dynamic to be compatible with p

Re: [marketing] OpenOffice.org Marketing Planet

2008-01-24 Thread Benjamin Horst
This page should work as a feed for my SolidOffice blog: http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg Thanks, Ben On Thursday, January 24, 2008, at 01:51PM, "John McCreesh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Following on from Florian's OOo Marketing Blog, I've been looking for a

Re: [Marketing] resources allocated to mac aqua port

2008-01-11 Thread Benjamin Horst
I saw a report recently that estimated Mac OS X share of computers browsing the internet has exceeded 7.3%. That's pretty impressive, and nearly doubled from just two years ago. I think I saw this figure last week, you can probably find it on www.macrumors.com if you need to follow up. -Ben --

Re: [Marketing] Spam from Apple Computer

2008-01-10 Thread Benjamin Horst
Based on Mac users' (such as myself) traditional hostility, or at least suspicion, of Microsoft as a company, I think we will do very well on the Mac platform. I'm very excited to see what happens after the native version comes out! (Remember, Microsoft gave up on IE for the Mac when just a lit

Re: [Marketing] Website Upgrade Marketing Input - download counting widget

2007-12-16 Thread Benjamin Horst
rfectly. Let's start, and then refine as we can. -Ben On Dec 16, 2007, at 3:09 PM, John McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 12:51 -0500, Benjamin Horst wrote: An idea for a small component that I think should be a part of the new webpage: An OOo downloads counter. Build it as a widget

Re: [Marketing] Website Upgrade Marketing Input - download counting widget

2007-12-16 Thread Benjamin Horst
An idea for a small component that I think should be a part of the new webpage: An OOo downloads counter. Build it as a widget that can be syndicated to lots of other sites too. (Just like our friends at Firefox have done: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/15143) Other sites and blogs, li

Re: [Marketing] Marketing Initiative Proposal

2007-11-30 Thread Benjamin Horst
To answer Florian's followup question, yes, I live in New York City, where at least the major news outlets, if not the reporters themselves, are located. Papers like the Wall Street Journal and New York Times can be considered global, so getting friendly with them will reach an enormous aud

Re: [Marketing] My presentation is featured on Slideshare cover

2007-11-15 Thread Benjamin Horst
Congratulations on making the home page! The slideshow is great. -Ben On Nov 15, 2007, at 2:47 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: Hi people, just to let you guys know that my presentation was featured on the cover of Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/ To go directly to the presentation you

Re: [Marketing] Otto web 2.0 club

2007-11-11 Thread Benjamin Horst
Alexandro, This is a great idea! How about a page on the marketing wiki from which to coordinate, keep track of those that have already been created (usernames, but obviously not passwords), and list those services we'd like to join next... -Ben On Nov 11, 2007, at 1:49 PM, Charles-H. Sc

[Marketing] Let's create a download counter widget

2007-11-04 Thread Benjamin Horst
Hey all, A quick idea for something we should build ASAP: a download counter widget that can be widely distributed across the web. The first place it should appear is the homepage at www.openoffice.org! I've found recently that people are very impressed with our download numbers, though n

[Marketing] Facebook group (was: Would be nice to have a OOoTwitter.)

2007-10-30 Thread Benjamin Horst
Firefox's group on Facebook is sponsored, which means they pay Facebook (I don't know what it costs) to get extra features and functionality. Included in that, I think, is Flash content, and some other features. Our Facebook group has been growing at a reasonable pace; we're more than 4 times l

Re: [Marketing] MS Office 2007

2007-10-20 Thread Benjamin Horst
Personally, I'd consider PIM and browser essential apps with the OS, but they don't seem like a natural part of an office suite. One is a communications toolset, one is a document creation and analysis set... Of course, it's all semantics. You need both, regardless of how you divide up what

Re: [Marketing] Marketshare Memes (was "Interesting study about price sensitivity of students")

2007-10-12 Thread Benjamin Horst
Good points, Ed. It makes sense that vendors would go with the path of least effort, especially when it seems to their advantage to measure in that way. Thus, the much more difficult task of proving real marketshare falls to this project! With IBM on our side, as well as Sun, we might be

Re: [Marketing] Re: Marketshare Memes blog post

2007-10-12 Thread Benjamin Horst
nd all the other sites, the CDs distributed, and the peer-to-peer, and I would not be surprised if our user base is higher than 100 million! -Ben On Oct 12, 2007, at 5:09 PM, NoOp wrote: On 10/12/2007 07:15 AM, Benjamin Horst wrote: I've converted my email of this morning into a b

Re: [Marketing] Re: Marketshare Memes blog post

2007-10-12 Thread Benjamin Horst
Great, thanks, Al! -Ben OpenOffice and open source blog: http://www.solidoffice.com/ Wiki business directory: http://www.wikipages.com/ On Friday, October 12, 2007, at 11:03AM, "Alan Lord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Benjamin Horst wrote: >> I've converted

[Marketing] Marketshare Memes blog post

2007-10-12 Thread Benjamin Horst
I've converted my email of this morning into a blog post on the subject. Comments and discussion are very welcome there: also, please Digg the post to see how quickly we can start this meme! http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/654 Thanks, Ben OpenOffice and open source blog: http://www.so

Re: [Marketing] Marketshare Memes (was "Interesting study about price sensitivity of students")

2007-10-12 Thread Benjamin Horst
tions at conferences, unconferences, post in >mailing lists, etc. > >I think we should pose the question to the researchers, how they measure >the market share. > >Kaj > >Benjamin Horst wrote: >> The first line in the article perpetuates a fallacy that we need to >&

Re: [Marketing] Marketshare Memes (was "Interesting study about price sensitivity of students")

2007-10-12 Thread Benjamin Horst
meme. Some IBM bloggers could also join in on this topic. > >Any comments? > >Charles. > >Benjamin Horst a écrit : >> The first line in the article perpetuates a fallacy that we need to >combat. It claims that MS Office has 95% marketshare! >> >> Recently I became

[Marketing] Marketshare Memes (was "Interesting study about price sensitivity of students")

2007-10-12 Thread Benjamin Horst
The first line in the article perpetuates a fallacy that we need to combat. It claims that MS Office has 95% marketshare! Recently I became very skeptical of this number, and did some research to find out what it means. Unlike what one would expect, it does not mean that 95% of users (PC us

Re: [Marketing] Return to the marketing

2007-09-27 Thread Benjamin Horst
i, > >> I'd like to return focus to the Marketing campaign proposals >> >> Was anything discussed at the conference, with regard to the campaign, that >> those of us who couldn't attend should know about. > >nothing in concrete, but I will get back to this t

Re: [Marketing] Finalizing current Marketing Campaign

2007-09-06 Thread Benjamin Horst
For college newspapers (in the US), I found the following introductory article today: http://www.medialifemagazine.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=170&num=3393 It gives a summary of the marketplace for ads in college and university newspapers, and links to three companies that specializ

Re: [Marketing] Upcoming marketing campaign: Targets and design

2007-08-29 Thread Benjamin Horst
I think some sites would be much better targets than others. And while I think Second Life is interesting, I don't think it (or MySpace) would be very helpful for OOo promotion. However, Facebook has a different audience and is perceived differently, so I think if any social networking site woul

Re: [Marketing] Upcoming marketing campaign: Targets and design

2007-08-29 Thread Benjamin Horst
I think a component of the marketing effort should also focus on students and teachers--there are advertising networks that could help us get print ads into many, many university newspapers, if we think print ads are a good option. (And it's a good time for that right now, as school sessions are

Re: [Marketing] IBM to ship OOo?

2007-08-16 Thread Benjamin Horst
Screenshots of Lotus Notes 8's "productivity editors" on IBM's site: http://www-142.ibm.com/software/sw-lotus/products/product4.nsf/wdocs/productivitytools They've modified the UI--I like how some of the toolbars have been moved to become tool palettes on the righthand side of the document worki

Re: [Marketing] OpenOffice group on Mugshot

2007-06-26 Thread Benjamin Horst
wrote: >Hey Ben, > >I'm on Mugshot and part of that OOo, although I fail to see clearly >what's cooler about Mugshot than other social networks... > >Best, >Charles. > > >Benjamin Horst a écrit : >> If there are any Mugshot users on here (it's a F

[Marketing] OpenOffice group on Mugshot

2007-06-25 Thread Benjamin Horst
If there are any Mugshot users on here (it's a FOSS social networking site being developed by Red Hat), feel free to join the OpenOffice.org group that someone set up long ago and I have been sort of taking care of lately: http://mugshot.org/group?who=CvWWx7GN474Gs1 There's a strong Ubuntu grou

[Marketing] Quick and Easy Activities

2007-05-21 Thread Benjamin Horst
Hi everyone, I wanted to let you know about a new wiki page I just added to the Marketing section of the OOo wiki. http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Quick_and_Easy_Activities Its purpose is to keep track of simple things people can do when they have short blocks of free time to help

Re: [Marketing] Wiki Extension idea

2007-04-20 Thread Benjamin Horst
Creesh wrote: > >> On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 11:41 -0700, Benjamin Horst wrote: >>> Louis brought up the idea of a wiki extension for OpenOffice.org >>> on his blog yesterday and it reminded me I've been meaning to >>> share the following with the marketin

[Marketing] Wiki Extension idea

2007-04-20 Thread Benjamin Horst
Louis brought up the idea of a wiki extension for OpenOffice.org on his blog yesterday and it reminded me I've been meaning to share the following with the marketing list. On my site I described the idea of a wiki extension that would bring cool new functionality to OOo, while also helping publ

[Marketing] digg my "research" into OOo in universities?

2006-10-26 Thread Benjamin Horst
I spent some time researching how many universities and colleges discuss OOo on their public websites, and after a short time I found very many. If anyone wants to add their own, or help promote this idea, please digg the article I submitted below! http://digg.com/software/OpenOffice_org_in_Uni

Re: [Marketing] Coupons/vouchers for free copy of OOo

2006-08-24 Thread Benjamin Horst
Lars, I think this is a really good idea! I wonder if it might be even more effective if it focused on college and university newspapers? I think that is the biggest and ripest market for us--last week, I introduced a student from the University of Iowa to OpenOffice.org. She had never heard of

Re: [Marketing] information about OpenOffice

2006-08-23 Thread Benjamin Horst
Hi Sara, This can be a very difficult task, to find or accurately estimate the market share of OpenOffice.org. There are some resources that I think can get you started, but as far as I know, there is no definitive answer online. The ones that I use are hosted by the OOo project on its wiki: htt

[Marketing] OpenOffice.org Metro ad running today in New York

2006-07-31 Thread Benjamin Horst
Hey everyone, I would like to announce that the OpenOffice.org Metro ad is running today in New York City. I saw many people holding Metro papers on the subway, and the ad is clearly visible on the back page! It looks really good. You can download a PDF: http://metropoint.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects

[Marketing] Fwd: Suggestion for major media ads

2006-07-20 Thread Benjamin Horst
This suggestion came in from someone following the OOo ads project. Sounds like a great idea! Have we ever done anything like this? -Ben Begin forwarded message: From: Matthijs Dierckx - Het Redactielokaal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: July 20, 2006 7:43:56 AM EDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

Re: [Marketing] Open Document viewer

2006-07-19 Thread Benjamin Horst
An ODF-capable Firefox seems like such a valuable tool, that I imagine (and hope) Firefox will integrate it quickly into the application itself, or at least highlight the extension so that many people will download it. I'm very excited to hear this project is already underway thanks to Da

[Marketing] OOo Metro ads on BoingBoing

2006-07-18 Thread Benjamin Horst
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/07/18/openofficeorg_taking.html Boing Boing posted a link to our Metro Ads project this morning! -Ben - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Marketing] digg: last 10 days of collecting for our OOo Metro newspaper ad

2006-07-11 Thread Benjamin Horst
If you can digg this article, it will help to spread the word and finish off our collection project. We've received some really positive help from Spread Firefox! http://digg.com/software/OpenOffice_Ad_Project_Fundraising_Almost_Complete Thanks! Ben

[Marketing] Re: another digg for Metro ads?

2006-06-29 Thread Benjamin Horst
holiday weekend will affect it. I'll keep you posted. Thanks for digging, and thanks for everyone's shared ideas and suggestions, and to those who have pledged. -Ben On Jun 29, 2006, at 7:00 AM, Benjamin Horst wrote: That's definitely my mistake--I had thought there was p

Re: [Marketing] another digg for Metro ads?

2006-06-29 Thread Benjamin Horst
Certainly! If (when) this NYC effort works, it will be a good proof of concept for expanding to many other locales. One idea I had was to target college and university student newspapers, especially if we can get free "public service" ad space from them. Students are one of our top markets and

Re: [Marketing] another digg for Metro ads?

2006-06-29 Thread Benjamin Horst
21:20:35 -0500, Benjamin Horst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We've upgraded our site and our ad significantly, using the suggestions and positive comments from everyone who has responded to our earlier postings. If you get a chance, please digg us: http://digg.com/software/Open

[Marketing] another digg for Metro ads?

2006-06-28 Thread Benjamin Horst
We've upgraded our site and our ad significantly, using the suggestions and positive comments from everyone who has responded to our earlier postings. If you get a chance, please digg us: http://digg.com/software/OpenOffice_Ad_Action Thanks again, Ben ---

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