John Botscharow wrote: > John V., > > What a perfect segue to something I wanted to propose, but was waiting > to see if more members of the group chime in: > > My talents and experience are not in the programming area. far from it! > I am a writer and a blogger. So, the other day, when Ronnie Tucker of > FCM came on with the draft of the new issue of FCM, I contcted her about > helping with the mag. And in looking over the magazine, I noticed that > there is NOTHING about marketing Ubuntu. > > I asked Ronnie about contributing some sort of regular marketing column > and she felt that that was something I needed to talk over with the > team, which makes sense. How do you all, and hopefully this post will > get responses from more people, about a regular column in FCM? Something > geared towards new people or even geared to converting non-Ubuntu people > into Ubuntu users? > > FCM could be very useful as a marketing tool. It is very attractive, > informative and quite professional. And it is pretty representative of > the whole community. > > We can hash out the details on what the column each month should be > about, bt I am offering to do the actual writing. And I would submit a > draft to the team for their inpit and approval each month before sending > it to Ronnie.
Yes - for FullCircleMag it would probably go down well as 'spread Ubuntu' or similar. Not much theory but a lot of 'let us do this' - or that, or good idea of the month, the bumper stickers project, or etc etc. Not just limited to marketing news which was created by others, that is. When a newcomer reads something which assumes they are part of an enthusiastic group, then the newcomer feels good about joining in? -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 Linux user #360648 -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
